You can recognize in your own reading habits what writers are doing that works and what doesn't. I'm becoming much more aware… — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
We all know that much of what we hear in life is not really so. Canned laughter and 'sweetened' applause have been… — Serge Schmemann Copy Share Image
The City of London and Wall Street are not going to be great places to be in the next two or three… — Jim Rogers Copy Share Image
One tragic example of the loss of forests and then water is found in Ethiopia. The amount of its forested land has… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
In 70s America, protest used to be very effective, but in subsequent decades municipalities have sneakily created a web of 'overpermiticisation' -… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
The use of 'conspiracy theory' as a derogatory - as an epithet almost - is something the propagandists have perfected over the… — Chris Sanders Copy Share Image
Each moment in history is a fleeting time, precious and unique. But some stand out as moments of beginning, in which courses… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
One of the high spots of the decade for me was offering the bill which culminated in the tax act of 1986,… — Donald T. Regan Copy Share Image
More than a decade after our fellow citizens began bedding down on the sidewalks, their problems continue to seem so intractable that… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
I had a period in my life, maybe a decade or so, in which I was involved in that kind of thing,… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
There's been an amazing backlash for the last decade in America: political correctness. In many ways, I think that, while we've been… — Ivan Reitman Copy Share Image
Cruel and paradoxical though it undoubtedly is, the record shows that yje most succesful 20th century monarchs have been those who were… — David Cannadine Copy Share Image
The laws of economics tell us that the expansion of the central state can't go on forever. Its limit is reached when… — Llewellyn Rockwell Copy Share Image
“So exiled have even basic questions of freedom become from the political vocabulary that they sound musty and ridiculous, and vulnerable to… — Laura Kipnis Copy Share Image
There are exceptional loyalties and there are old fashion ideas about how you get loyalties, and after all the auditorium is full… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
[Pope Francis] most recent trip was to Sweden, where he commemorated the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation. That had triggered one… — Sylvia Poggioli Copy Share Image
Decades of research has shown that play is crucial to physical, intellectual, and social-emotiona l development at all ages. This is especially… — David Elkind Copy Share Image
This [Judge Samuel Alito] may be one of the most significant or consequential nominations that the Senate will vote on since I've… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
As a result of the World War and of a peace whose imperfections and risks are no longer denied by anyone, are… — Hjalmar Branting Copy Share Image
If higher summer temperatures become the norm in the future, people will adjust. Perhaps they'll take naps more frequently in the afternoon… — Hans von Storch Copy Share Image
The biggest effect of the personal computer revolution has been to allow millions and millions of people to experience computers themselves decades… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
For decades, our dependence on OPEC oil has dictated our national security decisions and tied us up in the Middle East at… — T. Boone Pickens Copy Share Image
My advice to the tea party freshmen: Slow the galloping horses to a trot. Big government was built over decades; it can't… — Ari Fleischer Copy Share Image
The first thing I think about when I wake up most mornings is the fact that I'm tired. I have been tired… — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
It normally takes decades to build a brand... It's the forgetting of the old truth that allows a person to accept a… — Al Ries Copy Share Image
It didn't happen in the 70s. So I had a whole decade when I was writing these books and maybe there was… — Judy Blume Copy Share Image
It's funny, I used to say on 'That 70's Show', you could really put us in any decade, and it was about… — Laura Prepon Copy Share Image
Take a job, do it for ten years and work at it, and you'll succeed. Can I just add, take a job… — Eric Bolling Copy Share Image
Wendy Doniger has spent decades collecting not only myths from ancient texts but stories of all kinds from novels, movies, newspapers about… — Roberto Calasso Copy Share Image
I believe that the mistakes that we made in Europe in the last decades by allowing so much mass immigration from Islamic… — Geert Wilders Copy Share Image
Prominent exploration experts have recently predicted that total world production of liquid oil will peak by about the end of this decade-or… — Amory Lovins Copy Share Image
If Christian people work together, they can succeed during this decade in winning back control of the institutions that have been taken… — Pat Robertson Copy Share Image
During three decades from 1947 to 1977, the nation implemented what might be called a basic bargain with American workers. Employers paid… — Robert Reich Copy Share Image
Don't let yourself be weighed down by what other people think, because in a few years, in a few decades, or in… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
My friends from the University of Texas. I've had the same friends for over a decade. My brother films a lot; he… — Zach Anner Copy Share Image
By 1970, the first stirrings of the revolt against Modernist orthodoxy in architecture had been felt, although it would be several years… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
I know that the precise magnitude and patterns of climate change cannot be fully predicted. But global warming clearly is a growing,… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
The Constitution of the United States. It's still the best document of its kind, and written into it are exactly the kind… — John Roderick Copy Share Image
"I want to be always happy," Maxine Hong Kingston announces . But, as this interview makes clear, for me, it was the… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
If a severe pandemic materializes, all of society could pay a heavy price for decades of failing to create a rational system… — Irwin Redlener Copy Share Image
![“[Pope Francis] most recent trip was to Sweden, where he commemorated the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation. That had triggered one of the biggest splits in Christianity and decades of religious wars. He went so far as to praise Luther, who was once considered a heretic in the church…” quote by Sylvia Poggioli](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/0f8/sylvia-poggioli-32511_christian_pope-francis-most-recent-trip-was-to-swe_3139605.jpg)
![“This [Judge Samuel Alito] may be one of the most significant or consequential nominations that the Senate will vote on since I've been here in the last three decades.” quote by Joe Biden](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/aee/joe-biden-454_decades_this-judge-samuel-alito-may-be-one-of-th_1914810.jpg)
