Although a firm swat could bring a recalcitrant child swiftly into line, the changes were usually external, lasting only as long as… — Mary Blakely Copy Share Image
What frightens me about America today is that in the large majority there is no active sense of the value of the… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
Democratic constitutions do allow some suspension of rights in states of emergency. Thus rights are not always trumps. But neither is necessity.… — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
What, then, is the effect of pesticides? Pesticides have created a legacy of pain, and misery, and death for farm workers and… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
In this hour I would ask of the Lord God only this: that, as in the past, so in the years to… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Wine makes a man better pleased with himself. I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others. Sometimes it… — James Boswell Copy Share Image
The trick in writing children's books is to set up danger, mystery and excitement on page one. Force the kid to turn… — Jerry West Copy Share Image
“People today think of the world as a uniquely dangerous place. It’s hard to follow the news without a mounting dread of… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
There was only one catch and that was Catch22, which specified that a concern for one's safety in the face of dangers… — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
“The fiery tickle of outrage burned up her throat. “How the hell would you know that when you never gave me a… — Airicka Phoenix Copy Share Image
Women particularly should concern themselves with peace because men by nature are more foolhardy and headstrong, and their overwhelming desire to avenge… — Christine de Pizan Copy Share Image
The danger, then, is that materialism is not only shaping how we live but the way we think as well. It influences… — Robert Wuthnow Copy Share Image
As formal teaching and training grow in extent, there is the danger of creating an undesirable split between the experience gained in… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
The frequency of disastrous consequences in compound fracture, contrasted with the complete immunity from danger to life or limb in simple fracture,… — Joseph Lister Copy Share Image
My favourite mentor brother told me that there were three kinds of people: followers, leaders and scouts. Scouts are capeable of leadership,… — Isobelle Carmody Copy Share Image
I don't think it's a matter of going back and having a review of our process. Our process is about as thorough… — Chuck Hagel Copy Share Image
Rant Casey used to say, "No matter what happens, it's always now..." Talk about cryptic. I think what Rant meant was, we… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
It is within the police power of the state to prohibit public use of fighting words that create a danger of breach… — Ithiel de Sola Pool Copy Share Image
“Any man living in complete luxury and security who chooses to write a play or a novel which causes a flutter and… — G. K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“The fear of today,” he said, “always overrides the fear of tomorrow. It’s a basic fact of the dramatic emotions that the… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
A dangerous fallacy is to repudiate freedom in favor of an unknown future. What else but our own sturdy reliance on freedom… — Bernard Baruch Copy Share Image
We have usurped many of the powers we once ascribed to God. Fearful and unprepared, we have assumed lordship over the life… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
We have a friend and protector, from whom, if we do not ourselves depart from Him, nor power nor spirit can separate… — Reginald Heber Copy Share Image
Such movies are always a danger...falling in love is something most adults have actually experienced...The theme is universal and encourages...unhealthy comparisons...why can't… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
An independent Ireland would see its own independence in jeopardy the moment it saw the independence of Britain seriously threatened. Mutual self-interest… — Eamon de Valera Copy Share Image
The great danger of the new media is that it seems to relish the superficial. There has been an ethos within the… — Robert Barron Copy Share Image
The danger to society is not merely that it should believe wrong things, though that is great enough; but that it should… — William Kingdon Clifford Copy Share Image
The danger I faced was not accepted as reasonable grounds for deferring my tax payments, as authorities, who despite being told all… — Lauryn Hill Copy Share Image
To struggle when hope is banished! To live when life's salt is gone! To dwell in a dream that's vanished! To endure,… — Joanna Baillie Copy Share Image
We run a danger of trying to say the casualties are less than other wars or more than expected. It's just everybody… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
“- “How about flipping a coin;” she made a pretty remark and the two women turned around and looked at her irritated.… — Georgia Kakalopoulou Copy Share Image
The dustbin of history is littered with remains of those countries that relied on diplomacy to secure their freedom. We must never… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
“Everyone has known this condition of mind, though perhaps not all in the same degree; everyone will recognise it as the condition… — Lew Wallace Copy Share Image
After he has been following Christ for a long time, the disciple of Jesus will be asked, "Lacked ye anything?" and he… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
The other thing that troubled me: Dad was clutching his workbag. Usually when he does that, it means we're in danger. Like… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
“At the advent of danger there are always two voices that speak with equal force in the human heart: one very reasonably… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
We are to regard existence as a raid or great adventure; it is to be judged, therefore, not by what calamities it… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A democracy flirts with the danger of becoming a slave in direct ratio to the numbers of its citizens who work, but… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Radiation doesn't recognize borders. A meltdown in Japan or India, say, is a danger to the whole world. Wind circulates the radiation… — Wladimir Klitschko Copy Share Image
[Joseph Smith] foresaw the time when the destiny of the nation would be in danger and would hang as by a thread.… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image