Crimes were committed to punish crimes, and crimes were committed to prevent crimes. The world has been filled with prisons and dungeons,… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The role I see for my books is trying to think through the consequences of various things because a lot of the… — Daniel Suarez Copy Share Image
For some reason, we can't go to Cuba, businesses in American can't do business in Cuba. I think that that is stupid.… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
If an artist may say nothing except what he has invented by his own sole efforts, it stands to reason he will… — Robin G. Collingwood Copy Share Image
Once started, religious strife has a tendency to go on and on - to become permanent feuds. Today we see such intractable… — Mahathir Mohamad Copy Share Image
Even the word depression itself was the terminological product of an effort to soften the connotation of deep trouble. In the last… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
I give myself the luxury of time in shaping a song. It's very common for me to work three months or more… — David Massengill Copy Share Image
There is nothing else that so kills the ambitions of a person as criticisms from superiors. I never criticize anyone. I believe… — Charles R. Schwab Copy Share Image
The best method for preventing destructive cult involvement is preventative education. If students and the public at large are more aware of… — Rick Ross Copy Share Image
Like Canada, we very much wanted the United Nations to be a relevant and effective body. But once those efforts failed, we… — Paul Cellucci Copy Share Image
Every major federal campaign-finance-reform effort since 1943 has attempted to treat corporations and unions equally. If a limit applied to corporations, it… — Bradley A. Smith Copy Share Image
The United States will continue its efforts to improve our understanding of climate change - to seek hard data, accurate models, and… — George H. W. Bush Copy Share Image
[W]e must first experience the kingdom if we are even to know what kind of freedom and what kind of equality we… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
We have weathered the worst storms and the safety of the shore, though distant, is in sight. We can look to the… — Muhammad Ali Jinnah Copy Share Image
The budget is forward looking growth engine and will promote transparency and integrity. It is for the common people. This budget shows… — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
A good deed, "said the prophet Mohammed, "is one that brings a smile of joy to the face of another." Why will… — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
I think football saves many people. It can give you a life of luxury, but people don't see all the effort that… — Alexis Sanchez Copy Share Image
If you want to conquer lust for wealth, love selflessness and sparing way of life. If you want to conquer anger, develop… — Vladimir Aleksandrovich Antonov Copy Share Image
... if a man prays God for some virtue, and at the same time gives himself up to negligence, acquiring no definite… — Lorenzo Scupoli Copy Share Image
Teams make you better than you are, multiply your value, enable you to do what you do best, allow you to help… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
There is, however, no advantage in reflections on the past further than may be of service to the present. For the future… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
You will have to learn ways of relaxing in the present. Enlightenment is not an effort to achieve something. It is a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Even the Declaration of Independence starts out all men are created equal, so I see my advocacy as part of an effort… — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Copy Share Image
Never before has a populist democracy attained international supremacy. But the pursuit of power is not a goal that commands popular passion,… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
I'm a twin, but only I emerged live from the womb. The fact that I was originally one half of a duo… — David Jason Copy Share Image
I tell the players that they can't relive any day in their lives and that they can't relive the minutes of a… — Al McGuire Copy Share Image
Great scientific minds, from Claudius Ptolemy of the second century to Isaac Newton of the seventeenth, invested their formidable intellects in attempts… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
One Taste is not some experience you bring about through effort; rather, it is the actual condition of all experience before you… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
And don't think that by eating freedom fries you are being patriotic and helping the war effort. Use less gasoline, read a… — Tina Fey Copy Share Image
My contention is, first, that we should want more from our educational efforts than adequate academic achievement and, second, that we will… — Nel Noddings Copy Share Image
My name is indigenous to my country, it is not easy to pronounce, it takes effort to say correctly and I am… — Warsan Shire Copy Share Image
The highest reward for our toil is not what we get for it but what we become by it. ... Mistakes are… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
We are not perfect. What god is Examine yours. According to your mythos he was so disappointed with his initial efforts creating… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
Men felt a chill in their hearts; a damp in their minds. In a desperate effort to snuggle their feelings into some… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
All of us share this world for but a brief moment in time. The question is whether we spend that time focused… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The company that employed me strived only to serve up the cheapest fare that the customer would tolerate, churn it out as… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
Mistakes, scandals, and failures no longer signal catastrophe. The crucial thing is that they be made credible, and that the public be… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
You have perhaps waited for years to be freed from some need. For a long, long time you have looked out from… — Eberhard Arnold Copy Share Image
It stands to reason that if we direct all our efforts towards reaching a goal, we stand in grave danger of losing… — Viola Spolin Copy Share Image
American patriotism is now jingoism. American Greatness is made fun of. The concept of "Make America Great Again" or American exceptionalism is… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image