Governments having failed the people, the people are entirely justified in assuming for themselves and essential role in government. Where a government… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
There is joy in rationality, happiness in clarity of mind. Freethought is thrilling and fulfilling - absolutely essential to mental health and… — Dan Barker Copy Share Image
I joke that I learned the essentials of storytelling from Hanna-Barbera, but I pretty much did. That kind of television is what… — Kurt Sutter Copy Share Image
How much the making of a garden, no matter how small, adds to the joy of living, only those who practice the… — Ernest Henry Wilson Copy Share Image
Spotting talent is one of the essential elements of great leadership. — David McCullough Copy Share Image
Prosperity is an essential partner in civilization itself. It is the basis of leisure, charity, and a hopeful outlook on life. It… — Llewellyn Rockwell Copy Share Image
He was well aware that of the two of three thousand times he had made love (how many times had he made… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
The virtue of the imagination is its reaching, by intuition and intensity, a more essential truth than is seen at the surface… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
I have used Lenovo since I wrote my first novel. My old laptop broke, so I bought a new one, but still… — Okky Madasari Copy Share Image
I would love to see music reinstated as an essential part of schooling. The culture that it brings; the knowledge that it… — Benjamin Carson Copy Share Image
As a painter today you have to work without that essential platform. But if one does not deceive oneself and accepts this… — Bridget Riley Copy Share Image
It is the relationship between the physical environment and the environed organism, between physiography and ontography (to coin a term), that constitutes… — William Morris Davis Copy Share Image
Every thought which enters the mind, every word we utter, every deed we perform, makes its impression upon the inmost fiber of… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
I think... it is somehow very useful, and maybe even essential, for a fine artist to have to somehow make his peace… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“An essential virtue is humility. … The principle of humility and prayer leads one to feel a need of divine guidance. Self-reliance… — David O. McKay Copy Share Image
The best service that can be rendered to a Country, next to that of giving it liberty, is in diffusing the mental… — James Madison Copy Share Image
To me, being brave is an element that is so important with stand-up comedy. It's not essential. There are many comics who… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
My soul was always so full of aspirations, that a God was a necessity to me. I was like a bird with… — Hannah Whitall Smith Copy Share Image
World federation is an ideal that will not die. More and more people are coming to realize that peace must be more… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
Impossible. I merely brought the essentials. Clothes, my favorite boots, face cream, makeup, a few books to read, a couple cans of… — Gena Showalter Copy Share Image
But the truth is that it is only by believing in God that we can ever criticize the government. Once abolish the… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I believe it is incumbent upon Congress to act aggressively to ameliorate fear and help our country take the essential steps that… — Paul Gillmor Copy Share Image
An essential element of any art is risk. If you don't take a risk then how are you going to make something… — Francis Ford Coppola Copy Share Image
It always depresses me when people moan about how commercial Christmas is. I love everything about it. The tradition of having this… — Richard E. Grant Copy Share Image
To eliminate the discrepancy between men's plans and the results achieved, a new approach is necessary. Morphological thinking suggests that this new… — Fritz Zwicky Copy Share Image
The essential thing is to bear always in mind that trouble can appear at any time. Be aware.Be ready.Be alert. — Jeff Cooper Copy Share Image
A teacher or teaching is not essential for spiritual awakening, but they save time. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Silence is essential. We need silence just as much as we need air, just as much as plants need light. If our… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
What is most necessary for people and what is given us in great abundance, are experiences, especially experiences of the forces within… — Jacob Needleman Copy Share Image
The creative force in man recognizes and records these rhythms with the medium most suitable to him, the object, or the moment,… — Edward Weston Copy Share Image
We have to address the issues which prevent clean cities, clean rivers, regular, uninterrupted supply of essentials like water and electricity. — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
Hope is life's essential nutrient, and love is what gives life meaning — Dick Van Dyke Copy Share Image
This view, as a rounded whole and in all its essential elements, has very recently disappeared from science. It died a royal… — Asa Gray Copy Share Image
While it might seem that anyone can be a value investor, the essential characteristics of this type of investor-patience, discipline, and risk… — Seth Klarman Copy Share Image
In my work a good library is essential. It enables me to learn the background and previous discussions of the various issues… — Sandra Day O'Connor Copy Share Image
"Point of view" is that quintessentially human solution to information overload, an intuitive process of reducing things to an essential relevant and… — Paul Saffo Copy Share Image
Almost certainly, the first essential component of social justice is adequate food for all mankind. Food is the moral right of all… — Norman Borlaug Copy Share Image
The body of economic knowledge is an essential element in the structure of human civilization; it is the foundation upon which modern… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
It is comparatively a faint and reflected beauty that is admired, not an essential and intrinsic one. It is because the old… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Suffering, I was beginning to think, was essential to a good life, and as inextricable from such a life as bliss. It’s… — Lance Armstrong Copy Share Image
