Most people believe that great leaders are distinguished by their ability to give compelling answers. This profound book shatters that assumption, showing… — Adam Grant Copy Share Image
It's remarkable - most remarkable, the way these people manage, from time to time, a tragedy or a near-tragedy to break the… — Martha Ostenso Copy Share Image
Molecule, n.: The ultimate, indivisible unit of matter. It is distinguished from the corpuscle, also the ultimate, indivisible unit of matter, by… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Sir,’ said Stephen, ‘I read novels with the utmost pertinacity. I look upon them--I look upon good novels--as a very valuable part… — Patrick O'Brian Copy Share Image
Those who have past much of their lives in this great city, look upon its opulence and its multitudes, its extent and… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Justification and sanctification are both God's work, and while they can and must be distinguished, the Bible won't let us separate them.… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
I am interested to learn that a group of distinguished men and women is to be formed to spread knowledge and appreciation… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
Cuvier had even in his address & manner the character of a superior Man, much general power & eloquence in conversation &… — Humphry Davy Copy Share Image
What can prevent the coming of totalitarian socialism is only a thorough change in ideologies. What we need is an open positive… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Ohm (a distinguished mathematician, be it noted) brought into order a host of puzzling facts connecting electromotive force and electric current in… — Oliver Heaviside Copy Share Image
I tell young girls all the time: "Go for the guys who are more serious, distinguished". The hot-model types, they're too pretty,… — Kimora Lee Simmons Copy Share Image
All trades, arts, and handiworks have gained by division of labor... Where the different kinds of work are not distinguished and divided,… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Almost everyone seems concerned with the need to relax tension. However, relaxation of tension, which everyone thinks is good, is not easily… — Albert Wohlstetter Copy Share Image
I am delighted to be joining 'Guardian U.S.''s team as a weekly columnist, and to have the chance to address American and… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
The selective instinct of the artist tells him when his language should be homely, and when it should be more elevated; and… — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
The Greeks distinguished between good and bad behavior, language that enhanced or diminished persons. Being intoxicated with scientism, we fail to recognize… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
A large group of us were crowded into the Gestapo hall, and at that moment the circumstances of all our lives were… — Etty Hillesum Copy Share Image
Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of the day; but a series of oppressions, begun at a… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
... to say that the CIA and the KGB engage in similar practices is the equivalent of saying that the man who… — William F. Buckley, Jr Copy Share Image
To be individual, my friends, to be different from others, is the only way to become distinguished from the common herd. Let… — L. Frank Baum Copy Share Image
Our fathers and grandfathers who poured over the Midwest were self-reliant, rugged, God-fearing people of indomitable courage...They asked only for freedom of… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
In studying the action of the Analytical Engine, we find that the peculiar and independent nature of the considerations which in all… — Ada Lovelace Copy Share Image
Among the droves of men with political ambitions in the United States, I found very few with that virile candor, that manly… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Gases are distinguished from other forms of matter, not only by their power of indefinite expansion so as to fill any vessel,… — James Clerk Maxwell Copy Share Image
Religion, as distinguished from modern paganism, implies a life in conformity with nature. It may be observed that the natural life and… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
These groups within a society can he distinguished according as to whether, like an army or an orchestra, they function as a… — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
Is not disease the rule of existence? There is not a lily pad floating on the river but has been riddled by… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Surely with as good reason as had Archimedes to have the cylinder, cone and sphere engraved on his tombstone might our distinguished… — James Joseph Sylvester Copy Share Image
At present, the novels which we owe to English ladies form no small part of the literary glory of our country. No… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
A brilliant analysis of leadership in democratic, authoritarian, and totalitarian states, Archie Brown's The Myth of the Strong Leader draws on a… — Jack F. Matlock, Jr Copy Share Image
If you have indeed been so highly distinguished, should you not ‘live no longer to yourselves, but altogether unto Him who died… — Charles Simeon Copy Share Image
James Watt was equally distinguished as a natural philosopher and chemist; his inventions demonstrate his profound knowledge of those sciences, and that… — Humphry Davy Copy Share Image
Affectation is to be always distinguished from hypocrisy as being the art of counterfeiting those qualities, which we might with innocence and… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The ACLU is an organization with a long and distinguished history of fighting to protect freedom of speech. On the other hand,… — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
...mathematics is distinguished from all other sciences except only ethics, in standing in no need of ethics. Every other science, even logic,… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
I didn't want to look distinguished; I wanted to look fun, and also to fade into the street, into the King's Road.… — Nicholas Haslam Copy Share Image
A man of distinguished, beautiful eloquence, and persistent, over pressing thought... Ameen Rihani was one of the foremost pioneers of modern illumination.… — Mikhail Naimy Copy Share Image
Man is man because he is free to operate within a framework of his destiny. He is free to deliberate, to make… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
I'm concerned about the negative aspect of political campaigning in american nation, which is a new phenomenon. When I ran for president… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
I wanna thank everybody - I wanna thank everybody in this room. And it's a privilege to be here this morning with… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
