Dining out is a vice, a dissipation of spirit punished by remorse. We eat, drink, and talk a little too much, abuse… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
Our domestic problems are for the most part economic. We have our enormous debt to pay, and we are paying it. We… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
Don't hedge your prose with little timidities. Good writing is lean and confident. . . . Every little qualifier whittles away some… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
A picture is what it is and I've never noticed that it helps to talk about them, or answer specific questions about… — William Eggleston Copy Share Image
I am a little older and understand the nature of the business - the older you get the more your skills supposedly… — Randy Moss Copy Share Image
Education should try to lessen the obstacles, diminish the friction, invigorate the energy, and should train minds to react, not at haphazard,… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
It is the hope of those who work toward the breakout from planet Earth that the establishment of permanent, self-sustaining colonies of… — Gerard K. O'Neill Copy Share Image
Major international interventions are doomed unless the US is directly or indirectly involved. But if American politicians, officials and servicemen are to… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
There are two devices which can help the sculptor to judge his work: one is not to see it for a while.… — Gian Lorenzo Bernini Copy Share Image
The programme of the British Labour Party under Neil Kinnock is so wildly irresponsible, so separate and apart from the historic NATO… — Richard Perle Copy Share Image
Nutrition science, however, suggests that golden rice alone will not greatly diminish vitamin A defi-ciency and associated blindness. [”¦] People whose diets… — Marion Nestle Copy Share Image
Here's some free advice; like the folkies of yore, you need to be not just a writer of songs, you need to… — Michael Kosser Copy Share Image
Any system that sees aesthetics as irrelevant, that separates the artist from his product, that fragments the work of the individual, or… — Paul Rand Copy Share Image
There is a diabolical trio existing in the natural man, implacable, inextinguishable, co-operative and consentaneous, pride, envy, and hate; pride that makes… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
I would say that for the sake of human progress, the best thing we could possibly do would be to diminish, to… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
After 'Born to Run,' I had a reaction to my good fortune. With success, it felt like a lot of people who'd… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
Never forget that the purpose for which a man lives is the improvement of the man himself, so that he may go… — William E. Gladstone Copy Share Image
Heaven has not learned of my arrival, and my departure will not in the least diminish it beauty and grandeur. I will… — Omar Khayyam Copy Share Image
The great European dream was to diminish militant nationalism. We would all be happy Europeans together. But we are going to see… — Antony Beevor Copy Share Image
When I came here [to Malaysia] I heard that there is a problem with the concept of pluralism whereby pluralism is understood… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
People's ideas and fears can make them small but they cannot make you small. People's prejudices can diminish them but they cannot… — Carly Fiorina Copy Share Image
I hold it to be of great prudence for men to abstain from threats and insulting words towards any one, for neither… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
Humor simultaneously wounds and heals, indicts and pardons, diminishes and enlarges; it constitutes inner growth at the expense of outer gain, and… — Louis Kronenberger Copy Share Image
Does our ferocity not derive from the fact that our instincts are all too interested in other people? If we attended more… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
In every animal which has not passed the limit of its development, a more frequent and continuous use of any organ gradually… — Jean-Baptiste Lamarck Copy Share Image
God operates by different rules of time and space. And God's infinite greatness, which we would expect to diminish us, actually makes… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
Our resources will diminish in the coming decades at a time when hunger for energy grows dramatically in China and other parts… — Hermann E. Ott Copy Share Image
Modern problems proliferate and remain unsolved because we spend so much time trying to deal with societal and world problems without first… — Ralph Borsodi Copy Share Image
With recording, everything changed. The prospect of music being detachable from time and place meant that one could start to think of… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
The point of Jesus' existence wasn't to lessen or diminish our appreciation of each other, but to expand our appreciation of each… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
A poet who makes use of a worse word instead of a better, because the former fits the rhyme or the measure,… — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
Is it really in our countrys best interest to signal to the enemy that they probably only have to wait us out… — Fred Thompson Copy Share Image
[I watch] all that stuff - Game of Thrones and all the other series. How about House of Cards? As for Boardwalk… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
To diminish the suffering of pain, we need to make a crucial distinction between the pain of pain, and the pain we… — Howard Cutler Copy Share Image
There's a very secret plan. And it's a plan that nobody's going to tell you, 'Well, we want to diminish Christian philosophy… — Bill O'Reilly Copy Share Image
And this is an administration - we're not into nation-building, we're focused on justice. And we're going to get justice. It's going… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Emergency does not increase granted power or remove or diminish the restrictions imposed upon power granted or reserved. The Constitution was adopted… — Charles Evans Hughes Copy Share Image
Historically, opportunity has been afforded to a limited pool of people, excluding people of color and women. That doesn't diminish the talent… — Joe Robert Cole Copy Share Image
Self-pity is the worst poverty. When a person says, 'I am...' with pity, before he has said anything more he has diminished… — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
History is a great teacher. Now everyone knows that the labor movement did not diminish the strength of the nation but enlarged… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image