Why, since we are always complaining of our ills, are we constantly employed in redoubling them? — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Lawyers with a weakness for seeing the merits of the other side end up being employed by neither. — Richard Barnet Copy Share Image
Employed as I had been employing it, liquor is a fixative of old patterns. — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
The value of moments, when cast up, is immense, if well employed; if thrown away, their loss is irrecoverable. — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Terror acts powerfully upon the body, through the medium of the mind, and should be employed in the cure of madness. — Benjamin Rush Copy Share Image
A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed keeping rabbits. — Edith Sitwell Copy Share Image
Happy the man who sees a God employed in all the good and ills that checker life. — William Cowper Copy Share Image
I think we should all hope for a Russia that is successful, where its people are employed and the economy is growing… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
What is the task of higher education? To make a man into a machine. What are the means employed? He is taught… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Although just being employed as an actor is a big thing, I'm not sure I'd be satisfied playing the same character for… — Jamie Dornan Copy Share Image
I was employed as an investigator and my particular team, we were investigating the role of the business community in the genocide… — Tony Greig Copy Share Image
No one employed [ chaos] better than Jim Henson, by the way, on The Muppets. He had all these chicken Muppets that… — Ed Helms Copy Share Image
The liberal tradition has its roots in the Enlightenment, that period in the eighteenth-century Europe when intellectuals and political leaders had a… — John Mearsheimer Copy Share Image
Female spies typically represented one of two extremes: the seductress who employed her wiles to manipulate men, and the cross-dresser who blended… — Karen Abbott Copy Share Image
The fatigue produced on the muscles of the human frame does not altogether depend on the actual force employed in each effort,… — Charles Babbage Copy Share Image
I heard about a pastor in a church of 5,000 people who employed two seminary students whose main responsibility was to get… — Mark Dever Copy Share Image
Nations are not truly great solely because the individuals composing them are numerous, free, and active; but they are great when these… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
It is slightly chilling to realize there are rational, functional people up there employed to spot, nurture, and exploit those down here… — Jon Ronson Copy Share Image
While the business of education in Europe consists in lectures upon the ruins of Palmyra and the antiquities of Herculaneum , or… — Benjamin Rush Copy Share Image
The DOJ has employed these investigations in communities across our nation to reform serious patterns and practices of force, biased policing and… — Stephanie Rawlings-Blake Copy Share Image
“For their never-ending endeavours to obtain or retain wealth, countries desperately need companies, because they—unlike most human beings—have the means of production,… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
I don't think we're necessarily drawing from that specific sort of storyline, because I think we're all just super-blessed and grateful to… — Steve Zissis Copy Share Image
It is a great mortification to the vanity of man, that his utmost art and industry can never equal the meanest of… — David Hume Copy Share Image
No one in this world, so far as I know--and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
For although this was a very heroic war, with a parade of every sort of high moral principle, and with the most… — James Branch Cabell Copy Share Image
Now, if the Standard Oil Company were the only concern in the country guilty of the practices which have given it monopolistic… — Ida Tarbell Copy Share Image
Here’s a current example of the challenge we face. At the height of its power, the photography company Kodak employed more than… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
Using my own hand as a base material, I considered it a canvas upon which I stitched into the top layer of… — Eliza Bennett Copy Share Image
Attempts to limit female mobility by hampering locomotion are ancient and almost universal. The foot-binding of upper-class Chinese girls and the Nigerian… — Alison Lurie Copy Share Image
It is time that capital and labor realized that their interests are really comutual, as interdependent as the brain and the body;… — William Cowper Brann Copy Share Image
[Middleton] contended that the religious leaders of the fourth century had admitted, eulogised, and habitually acted upon principles that were diametrically opposed,… — William Edward Hartpole Lecky Copy Share Image
A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
To be paid, to be employed to be an enthusiast and be excited about existence is fantastic. — Robin Ince Copy Share Image
Lawful and settled authority is very seldom resisted when it is well employed. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“You cannot get them to talk of politics so long as they are well employed,” — Robert L. Heilbroner Copy Share Image
As water collected in a tank gets pure by filtration, so accumulated wealth is preserved by being employed in charity. — Chanakya Copy Share Image
In art the end does not sanctify the means: but sacred means employed here can sanctify the end. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
To prevent evil is the great end of government, the end for which vigilance and severity are properly employed. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image