My parents from a very young age raised my sister and I under a pressure to achieve. Theyre both attorneys. So good… — David Schwimmer Copy Share Image
I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis upon the observance of the law than they do upon its… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
Society has a hyper emphasis on thin, and that trend comes from the consumers - it does not come from the fashion… — Kelly Cutrone Copy Share Image
Seine et Danube was launched in 2003 with the help of Romanian authorities who had finally realized the necessity of promoting literature… — Dumitru Tepeneag Copy Share Image
History does not move by leaps into unrelated novelty, but rather by the selective emphasis of aspects of its own immediate past. — Julian Jaynes Copy Share Image
The way in which we experience and interpret the world obviously depends very much indeed on the kind of ideas that fill… — E. F. Schumacher Copy Share Image
I realized that conservatism was the philosophy that best suited me, with its emphasis on individual liberty, personal responsibility, and merit. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The scarcity of truth is atoned for by the abundance of affidavits; if a rumor be impugned, its veracity is easily strengthened… — Samuel Laman Blanchard Copy Share Image
We can and should place special emphasis on developing in our youth constructive incentives - a love of science, engineering, and math,… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
I became a novelist because of 'Gone With the Wind,' or more precisely, my mother raised me up to be a 'Southern'… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
Many of our troubles in the world today arise from an over-emphasis of the masculine, and a neglect of the feminine. This… — Eva Burrows Copy Share Image
our domestic lives reflect the major trend that dominates the consumer marketplace today: an ever-increasing emphasis on variety and choice. ... we… — Sally Helgesen Copy Share Image
Saving the world requires saving democracy. That requires well-informed citizens. Conservation, environment, poverty, community, education, family, health, economy- these combine to make… — Carl Safina Copy Share Image
I have no sense of myself as a sex symbol at all. But the meaning of sex symbol might be a little… — Ken Watanabe Copy Share Image
The old emphasis upon superficial differences that separate peoples must give way to education for citizenship in the human community. — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
Nothing is less real than realism. Details are confusing. It is only by selection, by elimination, by emphasis, that we get at… — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
Let the people decide whom to vote for, who has more authority. And only people, only our citizens, are able to place… — Dmitry Medvedev Copy Share Image
The one function that TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with… — David Brinkley Copy Share Image
Putting together a counter- terrorism policy, it's very easy to look at law enforcement or defense, military action or stopping the money… — Lee H. Hamilton Copy Share Image
Thanksgiving is a time when the world gets to see just how blessed and how workable the Christian system is. The emphasis… — John Clayton Copy Share Image
The force of what was called Panther rhetoric or word mongering resided not in elegant discourse but in strength of affirmation (or… — Jean Genet Copy Share Image
Because finally, 'the equal right of every citizen to the free exercise of his religion according to the dictates of conscience' is… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Such an emphasis on the immanence of God as Creator in, with, and under the natural processes of the world unveiled by… — Arthur Peacocke Copy Share Image
Much of the misgiving that Muslims feel for the West stems from our strong emphasis on freedom, always a risky enterprise. I've… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
