The great virtue of bureaucracy - indeed, perhaps its defining characteristic ~ was that it was an institutional method for applying general… — Max Weber Copy Share Image
When you are very old, and sit in the candle - light at evening spinning by the fire, you will say, as… — Pierre de Ronsard Copy Share Image
I did my fair share of stupid stuff in high school, like anyone. I had a healthy fear of my parents, and… — Christine Lakin Copy Share Image
There's a darkness that everyone must face, it wants to take what's good and fair and lay it all to waste. And… — Randy Travis Copy Share Image
At about six in the morning of July 3, 1860, while I was watering my petunias, and thinking of nothing in particular,… — Edmond Francois Valentin About Copy Share Image
I've had a pretty amazing life, a good life, and God knows I'm thankful, but I do believe that after 30, stop… — John Waters Copy Share Image
Saying I want to pay women a fair wage is doing something and saying young black people deserve not to be called… — Killer Mike Copy Share Image
Ruslan Chagaev is a great boxer and very experienced. He has won almost all of his fights and has already been world… — Alexander Povetkin Copy Share Image
When I talk about how we're going to pay for education, how we're going to invest in infrastructure, how we're going to… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
Alas! What boots it with uncessant care To tend the homely slighted Shepherd's trade, And strictly meditate the thankless muse; Were it… — John Milton Copy Share Image
Here in Brussels, we did everything to accommodate David Cameron's concerns. My collaborators and I personally spent countless days and nights negotiating… — Jean-Claude Juncker Copy Share Image
By my monastic life and vows I am saying no to all the concentration camps, the aerial bombardments, the staged political trials,… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Sold my soul to Satan. I've been dancing with the devil. So when you get to hell you can say you know… — J. Cole Copy Share Image
I root for hurricanes. When, courtesy of the Weather Channel, I see one forming in the ocean off the coast of Africa,… — James Wolcott Copy Share Image
Faith should be pulled into the public arena when it affects how we live. If it doesn't, it does no earthly good.… — Jeremiah Wright Copy Share Image
I am convinced that courage is the most important of all the virtues. Because without courage, you cannot practice any other virtue… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I went to a middle-class school, but my background is working class. I got the best of both worlds, I saw both… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
We know that art is connected with the land, with its salt, with its smell, that outside of national culture there is… — Ilya Ehrenburg Copy Share Image
I think if I had just slowed down a little bit it could have a little easier. I multiplied how difficult it… — Sutton Foster Copy Share Image
I had held a notion that I could make a pretty fair appraisal of the worth of an opponent simply by speaking… — Bobby Jones Copy Share Image
...when food is shared in a fair way, with solidarity, when no one is deprived, every community can meet the needs of… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
All we seek is an America where every person is given the chance to productively contribute to his country and where he… — Coretta Scott King Copy Share Image
One of my favorite phobias is that girls, especially those whose tastes aren't routine, often don't get a fair break... It has… — Amelia Earhart Copy Share Image
When on the breath of Autumn's breeze, From pastures dry and brown, Goes floating, like an idle thought, The fair, white thistle-down;… — Mary Howitt Copy Share Image
The entire history of baby formula has been the history of one overlooked nutrient after another...and still to this day babies fed… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Is it fair to be suspicious of an entire profession because of a few bad apples? There are at least two important… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Oh! mothers aren't fair - I mean it's not fair of nature to weigh us down with them and yet expect us… — Henry Handel Richardson Copy Share Image
The most beautiful conception of immortality of which I know, and certainly one that by contrast shows the utter vulgarity of Christian… — Revilo P. Oliver Copy Share Image
The church has been preoccupied with the question, 'What happens to your soul after you die?' AS IF THE REASON FOR JESUS… — Brian D. McLaren Copy Share Image
Such are the differences among human beings in their sources of pleasure, their susceptibilities of pain, and the operation on them of… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
We're not going to waste our valuable space or your precious energy by giving equal time to stories of tragedy, failure, and… — Rob Brezsny Copy Share Image
One of the most important finds within the land of Egypt occurred when the Egyptologist and archaeologist Professor Walter B. Emery (1903-1971)… — Michael Tsarion Copy Share Image
The "Lucifer Effect" describes the point in time when an ordinary, normal person first crosses the boundary between good and evil to… — Philip Zimbardo Copy Share Image
This is a massive crisis for the press, and the degree now that the press revs up its scrutiny and its opposition… — Ari Fleischer Copy Share Image
The pursuit of science, the study of the great works, the value of free inquiry, in short, the very idea of living… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Americans have always pursued our dreams within a free market that has been the engine of our progress. It's a market that… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Court games aren't fair. They don't judge men by their worth, and they aren't about what's just. Guilty men can hold power… — Daniel Abraham Copy Share Image
It's as if the whole notion of growing soil is something only lunatics would think about. But why not grow soil? Does… — Joel Salatin Copy Share Image
The evil, Sir, is enormous; the inevitable suffering incalculable. Do not stain the fair fame of the country. . . . Nations… — Edward Everett Copy Share Image
The supreme good is like water, which nourishes all things without trying to. It is content with the low places that people… — Laozi Copy Share Image
