Truth can be sifted out from falsehood only if the government is vigorously and consistently cross-examined, so that the fundamental issues of… — Zechariah Chafee Copy Share Image
International arbitration may be defined as the substitution of many burning questions for a smoldering one — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Words cannot express as music does, that unsayable grace which cannot be defined. It leaps like light from mind to mind. — Gwen Harwood Copy Share Image
Great leaders are not defined by the absence of weakness, but rather by the presence of clear strengths. — John Peter Zenger Copy Share Image
The advantage of literature over life is that its characters are clearly defined, and act consistently. — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
Religion is defined as belief in and worship of a controlling power and atheism is precisely not that. — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
Contemporary defenders of the Enlightenment shouldn't overgeneralize: the Enlightenment, however it is defined, is not an unalloyed good. — Ben Domenech Copy Share Image
Every stage of human life, except the last, is marked out by certain and defined limits; old age alone has no precise… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
The worth of a person’s thought is measured not by the quantity but by the quality of the support that it has… — Anuj Copy Share Image
Creativity can be defined as an original act of imagination that brings something into existence. It is a desire and innate drive… — Shaun McNiff Copy Share Image
Above all, we must awaken to and overcome the great hidden anthropocentric projection that has virtually defined the modern mind: the pervasive… — Richard Tarnas Copy Share Image
Even originally well-defined pencils of cathode rays from the Sun cannot reach the Earth. For Birkeland's theories to be correct, the existance… — Arthur Schuster Copy Share Image
20th-century totalitarian movements were no more defined by a rejection of Judeo-Christianity than they were defined by a rejection of astrology, alchemy,… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Laughter appears to stand in need of an echo, Listen to it carefully: it is not an articulate, clear, well-defined sound; it… — Henri Bergson Copy Share Image
My experience of singing, as an actor, was that there's a different creative feeling of freedom. The acting thing is a bit… — Orlando Bloom Copy Share Image
There isn’t any significant difference between the various brands of whiskey, or cigarettes or beer. They are all about the same. And… — David Ogilvy Copy Share Image
Mathematics may, be briefly defined as the science of quantities, and is one of the most important of disciplining studies which engage… — Rufus Choate Copy Share Image
My own answer to the contrarian question is that most people think the future of the world will be defined by globalization,… — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
A woman came up to me after one of the screenings with tears pouring down her face and sobbed, You've defined my… — Jill Clayburgh Copy Share Image
For the past few centuries, we have defined beauty as tall, slender figures, femininity and white skin. — Cameron Russell Copy Share Image
Mathematics may be defined as the economy of counting. There is no problem in the whole of mathematics which cannot be solved… — Ernst Mach Copy Share Image
“The day you find out who you are is when you look back and realize that it was never the words, rather… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
And in not learning the rules, I was free. I always say, you're either defined by the medium or you redefine the… — Duane Michals Copy Share Image
The resistance will be exclusively conducted by only one group. This new group will be defined soon by me. — Muqtada al Sadr Copy Share Image
Most mystics do not want to read religious wisdom; they want to be it. A postcard of a beautiful lake is not… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
“One is not simply defined by their actions of today, but instead defined by the person they will become tomorrow.” — Gus Adcock Copy Share Image
Theodore Roosevelt was always getting himself in hot water by talking before he had to commit himself upon issues not well-defined. — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
Goals have never defined me as a player. What has defined me is my impact on the team. If that means passing… — Mia Hamm Copy Share Image
The military preferred - invariably - those who could be readily defined, assigned roles, understood, and controlled. — Guy Gavriel Kay Copy Share Image
In a sense, communications networks can be defined entirely by who has cryptographic keys, and I think a lot of networks will… — Whitfield Diffie Copy Share Image
Cheap wine is defined by its price, and it depends on personal spending limits. So for me, any wine under $10 is cheap. — Deborah Harkness Copy Share Image
I like to think that we’re not defined by what happens to us…because so many times they’re beyond our control. I like… — Elizabeth Smart Copy Share Image
Black people are the only segment in American society that is defined by its weakest elements. Every other segment is defined by… — Jewell Jackson McCabe Copy Share Image
Creativity, as I see it, is the process of putting your imagination to work. It's been defined rather simply as applied imagination.… — Ken Robinson Copy Share Image
A design style is defined by a set of microdecisions. A clear style reflects a consistent set. A clear style may not… — Fred Brooks Copy Share Image
My drawings inspire, and are not to be defined. They place us, as does music, in the ambiguous realm of the undetermined. — Odilon Redon Copy Share Image
A political animal can be defined as a body that will go on circulating a petition even with its heart cut out. — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
Quite often, most of us are defined first by our vital statistics - our sex, our height, our weight, the colour of… — Tom Hiddleston Copy Share Image
I'm a former hippie, so clothes are important to me - your clothes defined you in that period. I guess clothes still… — John Hughes Copy Share Image
Elegance isn't solely defined by what you wear. It's how you carry yourself, how you speak, what you read. — Carolina Herrera Copy Share Image
