Since most of the action of the war actually happens off the page (offstage), I wanted to give the characters something they… — Said Sayrafiezadeh Copy Share Image
The degree of polarization that currently exists in Washington is such where I think it's fair to say if I presented a… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Our freedom of choice in a competitive society rests on the fact that, if one person refuses to satisfy our wishes, we… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
I think young writers should get other degrees first, social sciences, arts degrees or even business degrees. What you learn is research… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
Insects influenced the shape of the Australian house. Some, like the white ant and lthe Lyctus borer, worked quietly and invisibly until… — Robin Boyd Copy Share Image
When everything that is called art was well and truly riddled with rheumatism, the photographer lit the thousands of candles whose power… — Tristan Tzara Copy Share Image
"You are pure and perfect, and what you call sin does not belong to you". Sins are low degrees of Self-manifestation; manifest… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The thing that has disturbed me most about the Russian hacking episode is - and the thing that surprised me most has… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
My degrees are in anthropology, and I have friends who have worked with apes. — Gregory Keyes Copy Share Image
In this world, only those people who have fallen to the lowest degree of humiliation, far below beggary, who are not just… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
I feel that my role as a former president is probably superior to that of other presidents. Primarily because of the activism… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
Most human beings, though in varying degrees, desire to control, not only their own lives but also the lives of others — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Everything is a gift. The degree to which we are awake to this truth is a measure of our gratefullness, and gratefullness… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The convoluted wording of legalisms grew up around the necessity to hide from ourselves the violence we intend toward each other. Between… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Anti-intellectualism ... has been present in some form and degree in most societies; in one it takes the form of the administering… — Richard Hofstadter Copy Share Image
When I took the SAT, I didn't get accepted into a single white school that I applied to. Now I've got honorary… — Andrew Young Copy Share Image
As riches increase and accumulate in few hands, as luxury prevails in society, virtue will be in a greater degree considered as… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
So, why do I have so much fear in my life?" "Because you don't believe. You don't know that we love you.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To the degree we can live without the things of this world, to that degree we are wealthy. — Peter McWilliams Copy Share Image
I think that too far, too much, to a greater degree than is anywhere near appropriate, America and our politics are being… — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
The 2nd law of thermodynamics has the same degree of truth as the statement that if you throw a tumblerful of water… — James Clerk Maxwell Copy Share Image
The ever increasing intensity of despair depends upon the degree of consciousness or is proportionate to this increase: the greater the degree… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
There is one notable thing about our Christianity: bad, bloody, merciless, money-grabbing and predatory as it is - in our country particularly,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I know that Buddhism is to Hinduism what Protestantism is to Roman Catholicism, only in a much stronger light, to a much… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
This crisis is not just a crisis. Consumers are understanding for the first time that [their] degree of personal happiness doesn't rise… — Fernando Rodes Vila Copy Share Image
