Renewing the mind is a little like refinishing furniture. It is a two-stage process. It involves taking off the old and replacing… — Charles Stanley Copy Share Image
The highest degree of love is Tatayyum (total enthrallment). The lowest degree is 'alaqah (attachment), when the heart is attached to the… — Ibn Taymiyyah Copy Share Image
The war is definitely in the background, only referred to in radio news blips and conversation. I think, ultimately, this film is… — Elijah Wood Copy Share Image
No one who has come to true greatness has not felt in some degree that his life belongs to the people, and… — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
The learned and the studious of thought have no monopoly of wisdom. Their violence of direction in some degree disqualifies them to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The first thing I remember about the world and I pray that it may be the last is that I was a… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
I have so much faith in the general government of the world by Providence that I can hardly conceive a transaction of… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Another longstanding foreign policy flaw is the degree to which special interests dictate the way in which the "national interest" as a… — Samantha Power Copy Share Image
A man may sink by such slow degrees that, long after he is a devil, he may go on being a good… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
Therefore, to estimate the enemy situation and to calculate distances and the degree of difficulty of the terrain so as to control… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
The traditional dictionary definition of the difference is that an alcoholic will steal your wallet in a blackout, come to, and apologize… — Jerry Stahl Copy Share Image
Leadership consists not in degrees of technique but in traits of character; it requires moral rather than athletic or intellectual effort, and… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
As you develop, the people around you develop. As you progress, the world progresses with you to a certain degree. — Choa Kok Sui Copy Share Image
Whereas when I was a teenager, other teenagers didn't want anything to do with me. It was even like that in college… — Mara Wilson Copy Share Image
But might not his [the president's] nomination be overruled? I grant it might, yet this could only be to make place for… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
It must be a prospect pleasing to God Himself to see His creation forever beautifying in His eyes, and drawing nearer Him… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
When men have appreciated the countless differences which the exercise of that judgment must necessarily produce, when they have estimated the intrinsic… — William Edward Hartpole Lecky Copy Share Image
I've known a lot of people who were punkers who went on to get academic degrees. Very few of them, however, continued… — Greg Graffin Copy Share Image
It is not a field of a few acres of ground, but a cause, that we are defending, and whether we defeat… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
When I began my physical studies [in Munich in 1874] and sought advice from my venerable teacher Philipp von Jolly...he portrayed to… — Max Planck Copy Share Image
There is a degree of wretchedness and want among the lower class of people which is not anywhere so common as among… — William Bligh Copy Share Image
Weakness has its hidden resources, as well as strength. There is a degree of folly and meanness which we cannot calculate upon,… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The nation must to a degree take it on faith that we, too, are honorable men devoted to her service. — Richard Helms Copy Share Image
A certain degree of preparation for war . . . affords also the best security for the continuance of peace. — James Madison Copy Share Image
I've been getting pretty focused about that recently, and even considered doing a masters degree to polish up the craft. I've been… — David Knopfler Copy Share Image
The great thing about media now is that you have 360 degrees worth of opinions and can find whatever you want and… — Michael Wilbon Copy Share Image
My father was a Social Gospel, far-left liberal, and to some degree a mystic. But we did not have Bible readings; we… — Frank Moore Cross Copy Share Image
We are all animals of this planet. We are all creatures. And nonhuman animals experience pain sensations just like we do. They… — Joaquin Phoenix Copy Share Image
In life most of us are highly skilled at suppressing action. Bad improvisers block action often with a high degree of skill.… — Keith Johnstone Copy Share Image
To the degree I was too brash, Too self-confident or too pushy, I apologize. — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
I got into psychology simply because that's what my sister did, and I grew up in a family that was very like,… — Lilly Singh Copy Share Image
The word that I constantly hear out of women is 'fear.' It's almost like a background melody. Women have excellent degrees and… — Mireille Guiliano Copy Share Image
Herbalife: the customers are fictitious, the business opportunity is a scam, the university degree is a fraud. — Bill Ackman Copy Share Image
All disgrace smells alike. Differences in ruin are only matters of degree. — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
I think in the old days, the nexus of weirdness ran through Southern California, and to a degree New York City. I… — Carl Hiaasen Copy Share Image
The magician to some degree is trying to drive him or herself mad in a controlled setting, within controlled laws. — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
You are positive, creative and happy to the degree to which you eliminate negative emotions from your life. — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image
I grew up with a single mom who was a waitress. We were on food stamps. My mom then got Pell Grants,… — Adam McKay Copy Share Image