The men of sense, the idols of the shallow, are very inferior to the men of passions. It is the strong passions… — Claude Adrien Helvetius Copy Share Image
It is important that the remaining scenic areas of the country be at once made into State or National Parks. Fortunately there… — Enos Mills Copy Share Image
I cleanse the windows of my mind, that it may become a mirror reflecting inspiration from the most High. I do this,… — Ernest Holmes Copy Share Image
I have no doubt that there are Russian efforts to disturb the fabric of American democracy, but they're disruption efforts. The working… — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
I went to go see 'Final Destination' which you have to be 17 and over to see and they're like 'Uh, we… — Kay Panabaker Copy Share Image
Fear is the workout we give ourselves imagining what will happen if things don't work out. . . . Worry is our… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
In my mind, public space travel will precede efforts toward exploration -- be it returning to the moon, going to Mars, visiting… — Buzz Aldrin Copy Share Image
I see this piece of legislation as essentially being a declaration of virtual war. It is giving the President tremendous powers to… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
All our lives we are engaged in preserving our experiences and keeping them fresh by artificially sprinkling the water of memory over… — Vimala Thakar Copy Share Image
I unequivocally condemn the striking of the soldier from the Ethiopian community and those responsible will be brought to justice but nobody… — Benjamin Netanyahu Copy Share Image
When you believe you have found an important scientific fact, and are feverishly curious to publish it, constrain yourself for days, weeks,… — Louis Pasteur Copy Share Image
When you come to analyze the love of money which was the general impulse to effort in your day, you find that… — Edward Bellamy Copy Share Image
I don't view prosecutors and attorneys as natural enemies. ... Though their roles are oppositional, the two simply have different roles to… — Sonia Sotomayor Copy Share Image
Luckily, I remembered something Malcolm Cowley had taught us at Stanford - perhaps the most important lesson a writing class (not a… — Ken Kesey Copy Share Image
A lot of people expend great time and effort explaining why they don't like me, but none of them ever try to… — Jim Goad Copy Share Image
Just as any moron can destroy a priceless Ming vase, so the shallow and ill-educated people who run our schools can undermine… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
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There's nothing easy or simple or even entertaining (in our contemporary American sense of that word) in disciplining our minds to "see"… — Roger E. Olson Copy Share Image
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I just wanted to set a good example. I wanted to do things that I hadn't done before. My whole thing was… — Allen Iverson Copy Share Image
You see these dictators up on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police. They're… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Composition is for the most part an effort of slow diligence and steady perseverance, to which the mind is dragged by necessity… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Peace can be promoted by the limitation of arms and by the creation of the instrumentality for peaceful settlement of controversies. But… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
You know, in a business, you have to operate on the basis of voluntary investment by individuals in a cause. With government,… — Mike Lee Copy Share Image
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I must hold in balance the sense of the futility of effort and the sense of the necessity to struggle; the conviction… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
With so much effort being poured into church growth, so much press being given to the benefits of faith, and so much… — Barbara Brown Taylor Copy Share Image
After the initial critical learning period of youth is over, the areas of the brain that need to be 'turned on' to… — Norman Doidge Copy Share Image
I believe we should have a full-court press diplomatic effort. If Trump doesn't want to listen to the experts inside his own… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
The silliest and most tendentious of baseball writing tries to wrest profundity from the spectacle of grown men hitting a ball with… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
If, in any individual, university training produces a taste for refined idleness, a distaste for sustained effort, a barren intellectual arrogance, or… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
To live in any true sense of the word is to reject others; to accept them, one must be able to renounce,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Take a look at your natural river. What are you? Stop playing games with yourself. Where's your river going? Are you riding… — Frederick Carl Frieseke Copy Share Image
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I had to learn that slower is faster. If you practice every day with patience and correctness, you will get there. It's… — Edward Villella Copy Share Image
At the same time, we are keenly aware that China is still the largest developing country in the world and we need… — Hu Jintao Copy Share Image
Conversations are efforts toward good relations. They are an elementary form of reciprocity. They are the exercise of our love for each… — Barry Lopez Copy Share Image
It is this ideal of progress through cumulative effort rather than through genius—progress by organised effort, progress which does not wait for… — William Wickenden Copy Share Image
Unless I really make an effort, I quite enjoy looking a bit off and something looking a bit wrong. That's how I… — Suki Waterhouse Copy Share Image
I have said repeatedly that I intend to close Guantanamo, and I will follow through on that. I have said repeatedly that… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
