If ridicule were employed to laugh men out of vice and folly, it might be of some use. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
I feel an almost overwhelming interest in the methods of daylight abduction employed by the modern youth. — Georgette Heyer Copy Share Image
Words should be employed as the means, not the end; language is the instrument, conviction is the work. — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share Image
I've never been very fully employed either but just think of what it's like, you know, to go home with a mortgage… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
There is a vast world of work out there in this country, where at least 111 million people are employed in this… — Richard Nelson Bolles Copy Share Image
It is observed at sea that men are never so much disposed to grumble and mutiny as when least employed. Hence an… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
The art critics on some of Britain's newspapers could as easily have been assigned gardening or travel, and been cheerfully employed for… — Charles Saatchi Copy Share Image
I am much better employed from every point of view, when I live solely for my own satisfaction, than when I begin… — George Gissing Copy Share Image
FOR a long time the conviction has been dimly felt in the community that, without prejudice to existing institutions, the legal day… — Felix Adler Copy Share Image
So viewing the issue, no choice was left but to call out the war power of the Government; and so to resist… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The tongue may be employed about, and made to serve all the purposes of vice, in tempting and deceiving, in perjury and… — Joseph Butler Copy Share Image
Capitalism drives the employers to do their worst to the employed, and the employed to do the least for them. And it… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Olympics are three times more likely to be employed than people of a similar age, ethnic and socioeconomic status who have not… — Timothy Shriver Copy Share Image
If you struggle with issues of documentation, issues of your health care, issues of whether or not you'll be punished for being… — Amber Hollibaugh Copy Share Image
From a comparative perspective, the United States is unusual if not unique in the lack of restraints on freedom of expression. It… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There are but two roads that lead to an important goal and to the doing of great things: strength and perseverance. Strength… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The rule for effective governance is simple. It is one Ronald Reagan knew by heart. And one that he successfully employed with… — Chris Christie Copy Share Image
The public negotiations and secret intrigues of the English (Jews) and the French (Jews) have been employed for centuries in every court… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Because most people are not sufficiently employed in themselves, they run about loose, hungering for employment, and satisfy themselves in various supererogatory… — Laura Riding Copy Share Image
It's difficult to get a job and people stay in school longer because they're employed as teaching assistants or instructors by their… — Louis Menand Copy Share Image
The subject of criminal rehabilitation was debated recently in City Hall. It's an appropriate place for this kind of discussion because the… — Mike Royko Copy Share Image
Seldom can philosophic genius be more usefully employed than in thus rescuing admitted truths from the neglect caused by the very circumstance… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
There is certainly no greater happiness than to be able to look back on a life usefully and virtuously employed, to trace… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Donald Trump has built a business through hard times and through good times. He's brought an extraordinary business acumen, he's employed tens… — Mike Pence Copy Share Image
A speech idiosyncrasy, in the same way as an air quote, is really justifiable only if it's employed very sparingly and if… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Compared with the employed, the jobless are less likely to vote, volunteer, see friends and talk to family. Even on weekends, the… — Arlie Russell Hochschild Copy Share Image
I know what it's like to see someone lose their job as a result of the European Union. I saw my father… — Michael Gove Copy Share Image
I don't think there are huge divergences between my personality and what they see on TV. And I think that's why I… — Keith Olbermann Copy Share Image
Infrastructure spending does not create immediate jobs, and more than half of those jobs will pull from the pool of the already… — Mark McKinnon Copy Share Image
Peril, loneliness, an uncertain future, are not oppressive evils, so long as the frame is healthy and the faculties are employed; so… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
I see no reason for giving the capital employed in agriculture greater protection than the capital vested in other branches of trade,… — Joseph Hume Copy Share Image
The happy man . . . will be always or at least most often employed in doing and contemplating the things that… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
GUNPOWDER, n. An agency employed by civilized nations for the settlement of disputes which might become troublesome if left unadjusted. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
It may be that when we no longer know... which way to go we have begun our real journey. The mind that… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Hypnosis is a powerful force and in my opinion should be employed only by the best-trained and most ethical professionals for very… — Joe J. Christensen Copy Share Image
I'm fortunate that I'm employed. And if you're in show business, of course, every night you go to bed and go, oh… — Rick Mercer Copy Share Image
All forces are a deterrent to and would be employed in a general war. Most of our forces could be employed in… — Thomas S. Gates Jr Copy Share Image
She stared at him in that vapid, intoxicated way employed only by women under a vamp's control. Or the way I sometimes… — Kiersten White Copy Share Image
Europe is good at many things, which is why we are the largest exporter in the world. Thirty million people in Europe… — Cecilia Malmstrom Copy Share Image
I do think [in USA] is a need for change. There is something wrong when you have $20 trillion of debt and… — Ken Moelis Copy Share Image