If . . . a principle of true Religion [i.e., true Christianity] should . . . gain ground, there is no estimating… — William Wilberforce Copy Share Image
[The taxing power of the state] divides the community into two great classes: one consisting of those who, in reality, pay the… — John C. Calhoun Copy Share Image
One of the hardest things in politics is to convince people to do things now that will have a good effect 20… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The sources of deflation are not a mystery. Deflation is in almost all cases a side effect of a collapse of aggregate… — Ben Bernanke Copy Share Image
On the one hand, you have these huge budget films that cost millions of dollars. They are effects driven, they don't have… — Dolph Lundgren Copy Share Image
The end of poetry is not to create a physical condition which shall give pleasure to the mind... The end of poetry… — Laura Riding Copy Share Image
If we execute murderers and there is in fact no deterrent effect, we have killed a bunch of murderers. If we fail… — John C. McAdams Copy Share Image
Economists get very uncomfortable when you talk about virtue and vice. It doesn't lend itself to a lot of columns with numbers.… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
All the impoverishing effects of socialism are with us in the U.S.: reduced levels of investment and saving, the misallocation of resources,… — Hans-Hermann Hoppe Copy Share Image
It's not the side-effects of the cocaine - I'm thinking that it must be love. It's too late to be grateful, It's… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
There would be no call for ecological campaigning had nature not been exploited and abused. We experience the ground now bringing forth… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
The side effect of expanding consciousness is that negativity starts to evaporate; it goes away like darkness when you turn on a… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
In the United States we have, in effect, two governments ... We have the duly constituted Government ... Then we have an… — Wright Patman Copy Share Image
The courage of a great many men, and the virtue of a great many women, are the effect of vanity, shame, and… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
It’s amazing what a healing effect horses can have on kids, particularly troubled kids, that might bridge the gap that a well-intended… — Buck Brannaman Copy Share Image
Now when I hear about someone's illness, no matter what dire their predicament seems to be, I know that if they're willing… — Louise Hay Copy Share Image
Rather than being taught to ask ourselves who we are, we are schooled to ask others. We are, in effect, trained to… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
If conversation be an art, like painting, sculpture, and literature, it owes its most power charm to nature; and the least shade… — Henry Theodore Tuckerman Copy Share Image
Eloquence, to produce her full effect, should start from the head of the orator, as Pallas from the brain of Jove, completely… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The New Testament has had a really powerful effect on how I write and how I live my life. — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
What happens to the faith healer and the shaman when any poor citizen can see the full effect of drugs or surgeries,… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Hamlet 's character is the prevalence of the abstracting and generalizing habit over the practical. He does not want courage, skill, will,… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
This treaty [Kyoto] is, in our opinion, based upon flawed ideas. Research data on climate change do not show that human use… — Frederick Seitz Copy Share Image
In the real world there's an after-effect of disappointment if you lose an argument. But if, to begin with, you're set up… — Jack Nicholson Copy Share Image