I do not understand this squeamishness about the use of gas... I am strongly in favour of using poisoned gas against uncivilised… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
The more important point, however, is not about what the money does. It's about what has to be done to get the… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
The loss of seriousness seems to me to be, in effect, a loss of hope. I think that the thing that made… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
I spent four months in Prague in these blue rooms reacting to nothing and you basically place your faith in the hands… — Edward Burns Copy Share Image
I would see my hometown, Los Angeles, change. Green space and orange groves gave way to cement, freeways flooded with traffic, and… — Robert Redford Copy Share Image
Everything is a grace, everything is the direct effect of our Father's love - difficulties, contradictions, humiliations, all the soul's miseries, her… — Therese of Lisieux Copy Share Image
The financial crisis has underscored how insufficient attention to fundamental corporate governance concepts can have devastating effects on an institution and its… — Daniele Nouy Copy Share Image
Insofar as Trumpism was understood, it was seen as a side-effect of poverty, ignorance and educational failure. A cry from people who… — Fraser Nelson Copy Share Image
If you start parsing the cause-and-effect chain backward through time, eventually you land in cosmology - does the story begin with the… — Kyle Minor Copy Share Image
If we consider the actual basis of this information [i.e., intelligence], how unreliable and transient it is, we soon realize that war… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
To have a vision of the cosmic plan, in which every form of life depends on directed movements which have effects beyond… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Habits start out as off-hand remarks, magazine advertisements, friendly hints, experiments - like flimsy cobwebs with little substance. They grow with practice,… — Denis Waitley Copy Share Image
I discovered what I call the Bill Gates effect. That is, the more successful you are, the uglier you get. — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
Supremely frightful would be the effect of any human endeavor to mock the stupendous mechanism of the Creator of the world. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Copy Share Image
But Time, unfortunately, though it makes animals and vegetables bloom and fade with amazing punctuality has no such simple effect upon the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Fantasies are real. They have effects on your soul, even though, as I was too young to really step forward. — Cornel West Copy Share Image
I am firmly convinced, as I have already said, that to effect any great social improvement, it is sympathy rather than self-interest,… — Henry George Copy Share Image
One of the effects of a safe and civilized life is an immense over sensitiveness which makes all the primary emotions somewhat… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Greatness is great power, producing great effects. It is not enough that a man has great power in himself, he must shew… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Religion is close to theatre; much of its power comes from the effects of staging and framing. — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
If we observe genuinely happy people, we shall find that they do not just sit around being contented. They make things happen.… — Sonja Lyubomirsky Copy Share Image
Acting is primarily is where I want to go. But seeing how the visual effects guys work, and the special effects guys… — James Phelps Copy Share Image
From the late 1940s, into and through the '50s, there developed a complex interaction between federal government, state and local government, real-estate… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Noble causes have a deplorable effect on the morals of the persons who espouse them. — Barbara Mertz Copy Share Image
I wasnt thinking of the longevity of any of my songs, but I am extremely pleased with the lasting effect. — Graham Nash Copy Share Image
