The preservation of our national security and the laws that define us as the United States of America demand that we understand… — John O. Brennan Copy Share Image
The performance of buggery is no more inevitable a part of homosexuality than an orange syllabub is an inevitable part of a… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
Important thing to realize is the world is not here to make me happy. When you don't demand that the situation, or… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The latest trend seems to be these DJs doing pre-recorded sets, in perfect pitch with the lights & acts on stage. Everything… — Eddy de Clercq Copy Share Image
Ever since taking office, the Obama administration has sought to accommodate Islamist demands that freedom of expression be curbed, lest it offend… — Frank Gaffney Copy Share Image
All pantheism must ultimately be shipwrecked on the inescapable demands of ethics, and then on the evil and suffering of the world.… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
The principle of compassion is that which converts disillusionment into a participatory companionship. This is the basic love, the charity, that turns… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
It's partly the fault of the institutions of education. But it's partly the decision to be relieved of responsibility. Literature is simply… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
Debt never sleeps nor sickens nor dies; it never goes to the hospital; it works on Sundays and holidays; it never takes… — J. Reuben Clark Copy Share Image
The banker, therefore, is not so much primarily a middleman in the commodity "purchasing power" as a producer of this commodity. However,… — Joseph A. Schumpeter Copy Share Image
I want hard stories, I demand them from myself. Hard stories are worth the difficulty. It seems to me the only way… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
A universal renunciation of violence requires the commitment of the whole of society. These are not matters of government but matters of… — Federico Mayor Zaragoza Copy Share Image
You're punishing him over and over for things that are out of his control. Now, I'm not saying you shouldn't have a… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
High SQ demands the most intense personal integrity. It demands that we stand open to experience, that we recapture our ability to… — Danah Zohar Copy Share Image
What Europe owes to the Jews? - Many things, good and bad, and above all one thing of the nature both of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
God's favorites, especially God's favorites, are not immune from the bewildering times when God seems silent. Where there is no longer any… — Paul Tournier Copy Share Image
In post-Vietnam, post-Watergate America, skeptical voters demand full disclosure of everything from candidates' finances to their medical records, and spin-savvy accounts of… — Virginia Postrel Copy Share Image
I choose gentleness... Nothing is won by force. I choose to be gentle. If I raise my voice may it be only… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
In patriarchal culture men are especially inclined to see love as something they should receive without expending effort. More often than not… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
That is the hope that inspires Christians. We know that every effort to better society, especially when injustice and sin are so… — Oscar Romero Copy Share Image
With two children of my own, I know what it means to balance the demands of family and career - and let's… — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
If you are writing something in which you are really involved, you don't even need to think about it any longer. The… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
It is those who have this imperative demand for the best in their natures, and who will accept nothing short of it,… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
By explanation the scientist understands nothing except the reduction to the least and simplest basic laws possible, beyond which he cannot go,… — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
The Devil's strategy for our times is to trivialize human existence and isolate us from one another while creating the delusion that… — Philip Zimbardo Copy Share Image
Calvin: Dear Santa, before I submit life to your scrutiny, I demand to know who made YOU the matter of my fate?!… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
The workmen in a factory may have a shadowy, unknown absentee "employer" - the thousands of individual owners of stock - whom… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Trust is essential for our social wellbeing. Without trusting the good will of others we retreat into bureaucracy, rules and demands for… — Eva Cox Copy Share Image
There is the great, silent, continuous struggle: the struggle between the State and the Individual; between the State which demands and the… — Benito Mussolini Copy Share Image
One must be reasonable in one's demands on life. For myself, all that I ask is: (1) accurate information; (2) coherent knowledge;… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
I think in the old days, films really went for the shock, with the blood and guts, but movies are getting better.… — Claudia Christian Copy Share Image
Life demands sacrifice and difficult decisions from us at every moment. Living does not mean passing through a void of nothingness but… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Books are like people. Some look deceptively attractive from a distance, some deceptively unappealing; some are easy company, some demand hard work… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
Words outlive people, institutions, civilizations. Words spur images, associations, memories, inspirations and synapse pulsations. Words send off physical resonations of thought into… — Inga Muscio Copy Share Image
Every great loss demands that we choose life again. We need to grieve in order to do this. The pain we have… — Rachel Naomi Remen Copy Share Image
No engineer can go upon a new work and not find something peculiar, that will demand his careful reflection, and the deliberate… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The honor of a gentleman demands the inviolability of his word, and the incorruptibility of his principles. He is the descendent of… — Emily Post Copy Share Image
The first time I read the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, my instinctive reaction was, so what’s wrong with THAT? Isn’t… — Anton Szandor LaVey Copy Share Image
We cannot use a double standard for measuring our own and other people's policies. Our demands for democratic practices in other lands… — Hubert H. Humphrey Copy Share Image
The national Democratic Party has embraced abortion on demand. I believe this position is wrong in principle and out of the mainstream… — Robert Casey Copy Share Image
