The fact that seasoned politicians can say such ridiculous things - and get away with it - illustrates the degree to which… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
We make allowance for a certain degree of selfishness in men; because we know it to be inseparable from human nature, and… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Obscurity is where God sends all His favorite sons and daughters. Our society tells us that if and when we get ‘there’—the… — Jonathan Martin Copy Share Image
In a government framed for durable liberty, not less regard must be paid to giving the magistrate a proper degree of authority,… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
I am not an absolute pacifist, because I can't rule out the possibility that under some, carefully defined circumstances, some degree of… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
In my judgment it is the duty of Congress, while respecting to the uttermost the conscientious convictions and religious scruples of every… — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
The earl shook his head, exhibiting a degree of frosty offense that could only be achieved by an aristocrat whose wishes had… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
Bad User on Device is a medium that can dynamically simulate the details of any other medium, including media that cannot exist… — Alan Kay Copy Share Image
Friendship is a serious affection; the most sublime of all affections, because it is founded on principle, and cemented by time. The… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
The Supreme Court has said that: Marriage is the most important relation in life. Now that's being withheld from the plaintiffs. It… — Ted Olson Copy Share Image
There's a lot of expectation in the Middle East that post-Obama there will be a sort of tougher U.S. line on Assad,… — Patrick Cockburn Copy Share Image
The latest trade of a security creates a dangerous illusion that its market price approximates its true value. This mirage is especially… — Seth Klarman Copy Share Image
The Berbers, among whom even today one finds light skins and blue eyes, do not go back to the Vandal invasions of… — Alfred Rosenberg Copy Share Image
In my opinion, the trombone is the true head of the family of wind instruments, which I have named the 'epic' one.… — Hector Berlioz Copy Share Image
Today we can say that at last the director writes the film. The image--its plastic composition and the way it is set… — Andre Bazin Copy Share Image
I do not know much about gods; but I think that the river is a strong brown god-sullen, untamed and intractable, Patient… — T. S. Eliot 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
There are grander and more sublime landscapes - to me. There are more compelling cultures. But what appeals to me about central… — Sam Abell Copy Share Image
You cannot grow in the integrative dance of action and contemplation without a strong tolerance for ambiguity, an ability to allow, forgive,… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
A lot of people don't know what I do. In the industry they take credit for work because to some degree it… — Angie Stone Copy Share Image
Marriage and conjugal love are by their nature ordained toward the procreation and education of children. Children are really the supreme gift… — Pope Paul VI Copy Share Image
Every atom in creation may be said to be acquainted with and married to every other, but with universal union there is… — John Muir Copy Share Image
A geometrical theory in physical interpretation can never be validated with mathematical certainty ... ; like any other theory of empirical science,… — Carl Gustav Hempel Copy Share Image
In a free society, a large degree of human activity is none of the government's business. We should make criminal what's going… — Barney Frank Copy Share Image
By "essence" I understand a universal, of any degree of complexity and definition, which may be given immediately, whether to sense or… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
The sphere ... which is located beyond our physical world is called the earth zone. It is also known as the zone… — Franz Bardon Copy Share Image
renown, n. A degree of distinction between notoriety and fame - a little more supportable than the one and a little more… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
It's 'Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon, except there's just one degree, and Kevin Bacon is Hitler. Can I play? Let's see. Mother… — Lewis Black Copy Share Image
I don't know if anybody from my tribe of atheists ever thanked [Barack Obama] for giving us a shout-out at your first… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
It is to Titian we must turn our eyes to find excellence with regard to color, and light and shade, in the… — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share Image
Out of our first century of national life we evolved the ethical principle that it was not right or just that an… — Frances Perkins Copy Share Image
It's funny, I do try to maintain health. I started doing Bikram yoga which is that hothouse yoga, the 105 degrees yoga… — Bryan Cranston Copy Share Image
I think that it's unfortunate that we have allowed politics to use theology to hit areas that we sincerely want to support.… — T. D. Jakes Copy Share Image
Water, like many other resources, is harvested, transported and used throughout all aspects of society. Unlike other resources, water is critical to… — Edward Burtynsky Copy Share Image
Paraphrased: Among the degrees of the universal Manifestation, each sentient creature typically experiences an illusory sense of autonomy. At the same time,… — Abdelkader El Djezairi Copy Share Image
So when we sing, 'Draw me nearer, nearer, blessed Lord,' we are not thinking of the nearness of place, but of the… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
All men's instincts, all their impulses in life, are efforts to increase their freedom. Wealth and poverty, health and disease, culture and… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
What does this word holiness really mean? Is it a negative kind of piety from which so many people have shied away?… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
Your body must become familiar with its death - in all its possible forms and degrees - as a self-evident, imminent, and… — Dag Hammarskjold Copy Share Image
Lots of artists who paint have the experience to one degree or another... where their thinking doesn't precede their doing... It's a… — Philip Guston Copy Share Image