I don't care if religious people consider me amoral because I lack their beliefs in God. I do however care deeply about… — Wendy Kaminer Copy Share Image
It's a very teenage idea - this idea that thought is ruined when we give over to television shows and glossy magazines… — John Maus Copy Share Image
The aspiring efforts of genius, or virtue, either in active or speculative life, are measured, not so much by their real elevation,… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
We must help all our young people to understand that ours is still a very poor country, that we cannot change this… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
I think any advocate who is effective has fully acquainted himself or herself with the legislator they are going to meet. Know… — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
People do not drift toward Holiness. Apart from grace-driven effort, people do not gravitate toward godliness, prayer, obedience to Scripture, faith, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Perhaps one could appoint three or four professional people specially concerned with the task of bridge building between the majority and the… — Norbert Elias Copy Share Image
All of the Antilles, every island, is an effort of memory: every mind, every racial biography culminating in amnesia and fog. Pieces… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
It's an interesting fact that fewer than 17 % of Real cats end their lives with the same name they started with.… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
A great chess-player is not a great man, for he leaves the world as he found it. No act terminating in itself… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
There was actually some serious time in front of the mirror, checking yourself out, checking out your shirt, checking out your pants.Combing… — Rob Huebel Copy Share Image
If you can look at your failure and answer yes to the questions, "Did I give it my absolute best effort?" and… — Ian Anthony Dale Copy Share Image
To the Cold War veterans here, know that your steadfast efforts preserved a delicate balance, and, because of you, the global war… — Michael Mullen Copy Share Image
It is true that I voted against the National Defense Authorization Act, because when I campaigned in Texas I told voters in… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
The person who is working on his or her family history fits the description of one who is fulfilling his or her… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
A God who chastises our lack of faith, our vices, the little esteem in which we hold dignity and the civic virtues.… — Jose Rizal Copy Share Image
Men towering high above such political pygmies, men of refinement, of culture, of ability, are jeered into silence as mollycoddles. It is… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Mood evidently affects the operation of System 1: when we are uncomfortable and unhappy, we lose touch with our intuition. These findings… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
When you try to bring about behavioral change by an effort of will, you actually do violence to yourself, and the chances… — Srikumar Rao Copy Share Image
The intensive and concerted effort to exclude references to religion or God from public places is an attack on our founding principles.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Every day each of us in his own activity is engaged in trying to reduce the effort it requires to accomplish a… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Franklin Roosevelt is one of the great leaders because he does get along with other people. He makes this huge effort. He's… — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
The effort really to see and really to represent is no idle business in face of the constant force that makes for… — Henry James Copy Share Image
To have striven so hard, to have molded a public personality out of so amorphous an identity, to have sustained that superhuman… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
Remarkable visions and genuine insight are always met with resistance. And when you start to make progress, your efforts are met with… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
Well, this week's peeve might be... when art writers talk about an artist's 'efforts,' meaning their work. It always sounds patronizing to… — James Nares Copy Share Image
I attempt all day, at work, not to think about what lies ahead, but this costs me so much effort that there… — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
There is another side [to ego] that can wreck a team or an organization. That is being distracted by your own importance.… — Bill Walsh Copy Share Image
A rational process is a moral process. You may make an error at any step of it, with nothing to protect you… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Going to war accelerated the move from indirect to direct rule. Almost any state that makes war finds that it cannot pay… — Charles Tilly Copy Share Image
The girls and women of our race must not be afraid to take hold of business endeavor and, by patient industry, close… — Madam C. J. Walker Copy Share Image
The state of New York's got this group of people called smokers, and they know they're addicted, and despite all the efforts… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Ardent desire for knowledge, in fact, is the one motive attracting and supporting investigators in their efforts; and just this knowledge, really… — Claude Bernard Copy Share Image
Some women are convinced that they are the same size they were 20 years ago. They also wear clothes that are too… — Stacy London Copy Share Image
It could be clearly proved that by a practical nullification [by the South] of the Fifteenth Amendment the Republicans have for several… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
I ask for nothing. / In return I give All. / There is no earning my Love. / No work needed, no… — Ki Longfellow Copy Share Image
Since September 11th, federal terrorism investigations have resulted in charges against more than 400 suspects, and more than half those charged have… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
With better vision, we sacrifice for students for whom that sacrifice will most likely pay off. I'm sorry to say this, but… — Rafe Esquith Copy Share Image
If a guy does us wrong the week before, and he does something the next week where he makes an effort to… — Tony Stewart Copy Share Image
The goal in life is the same as in basketball: make the effort to do the best you are capable of doing--in… — John Wooden Copy Share Image