A poet is wounded into speech, and he examines these wounds, meticulously, to discover how to heal them. The bad poet harangues… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
I think what bothers us about fighting sports isn't the damage to the athlete but the fact that you win by doing… — Jonathan Gottschall Copy Share Image
I was told I had brain damage. I always knew it was an unfair label. Now I have a clearer understanding of… — Susan Boyle Copy Share Image
How strange that something so simple could have been instrumental in my decision to ruin one of my most relationships and friendships,… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
The miracle drugs (neuroleptics) cause the worst plague of brain damage in medical history. — Peter Breggin Copy Share Image
The socially redeeming aspect of golf lies in the vast number of lawyers and bankers and managers who play it, and when… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
Gun control laws don't work. What is worse, they act perversely. While legitimate users of firearms encounter intense regulation, scrutiny and bureaucratic… — Daniel D. Polsby Copy Share Image
The pace of global warming is accelerating and the scale of the impact is devastating. The time for action is limited -… — Eliot Spitzer Copy Share Image
My first job was a film called 'Storm Damage' for the BBC. I was 16 and working with really respected British actors.… — Ashley Madekwe Copy Share Image
But people only die in proper duels, you know, with real wizards. The most you and Malfoy’ll be able to do is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
President Obama has never summarized the Obama Doctrine with such clarity, but here is what it would look like: 'I will undertake… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I couldn't stand being identified by my sexuality, I retaliated by insisting that people regard me for my intellectual worth. My intellect… — Leora Tanenbaum Copy Share Image
One simply cannot engage in barbarous action without becoming a barbarian, because one cannot defend human values by calculated and unprovoked violence… — J. William Fulbright Copy Share Image
This strongly asserted but ill-defined license to kill without accountability is not an entitlement which the United States or other states can… — Philip Alston Copy Share Image
War's an auction where whoever can pay the most in damage and still be standing wins. — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
For example, in Vitamin K, the clotting proteins get it first... and only after they're satisfied do you prevent calcification of the… — Bruce Ames Copy Share Image
Everybody I've ever met was destroyed by a member of the opposite sex early on and that damage you took into every… — Christopher Titus Copy Share Image
The torture and other sadistic abuses of prisoners in Iraq have done immense damage already to America's reputation in the world, and… — Edward Kennedy Copy Share Image
Environmental damage such as graffiti, fly-posting and general littering is a menace that is becoming all too prevalent, not just in inner… — Margaret Beckett Copy Share Image
In terms of men being feminist allies, it's just important to speak from your own place. I'd love to hear men singing… — Kathleen Hanna Copy Share Image
Money was the crux. Raising money to pay the cost of war was to cause more damage to 14th century society than… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
I lose my temper, but it's all over in a minute," said the student. "So is the hydrogen bomb," I replied. "But… — George Sweeting Copy Share Image
Ageing is, simply and clearly, the accumulation of damage in the body. That's all that ageing is. — Aubrey de Grey Copy Share Image
Viewed from a holistic ecological perspective, some meat - such as conscientiously hunted animals - involves less suffering and environmental damage than… — Tristram Stuart Copy Share Image
