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
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
Marx, as we have seen, solved it by declaring capital to be a different thing from product, and maintaining that it belonged… — Benjamin Tucker Copy Share Image
A certain amount of contempt for the material employed to express an idea is indispensable to the purest realization of this idea. — Man Ray 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
Any method which appears to offer advantages to a nation at war will be vigorously employed by that nation. There is but… — George W. Merck Copy Share Image
I think in the '50s, the percentage of Americans employed by the private sector who were in unions was above 30 percent.… — George Packer 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
My father was a self-employed, commission-only salesman. He sold double-glazing and fitted kitchens, amongst other things. As he never declared himself unemployed,… — Neil Oliver 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
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
Investing solely for 'income,' investing merely 'to keep capital employed,' and investing simply 'to hedge against inflation' are all entirely out of… — Gerald M. Loeb 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
Long term debt and bank debt (including off-balance sheet financing must be judiciously employed. There must be room to expand the debt… — Peter Cundill 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
When I put something into motion, the creativity starts to make other people want to jump in, and then a lot of… — Adam Shankman 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
No disorders have employed so many quacks, as those that have no cure; and no sciences have exercised so many quills, as… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Art is a severe business; most serious when employed in grand and sacred objects. The artist stands higher than art, higher than… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
As unbalanced parties of every description can never tolerate a free inquiry of any kind, when employed against themselves, the license, and… — John Adams Copy Share Image
In my ideal world there would be 99% unemployment for actors, and I would be the 1% that's employed. I hear about… — Hamish Linklater Copy Share Image
Surely, if knowledge is valuable, it can never be good policy in a country far wealthier than Tuscany, to allow a genius… — Charles Babbage Copy Share Image