The art of writing history is the art of emphasizing the significant facts at the expense of the insignificant. And it is… — Robert Wilson Lynd Copy Share Image
The nature of men and of organized society dictates the maintenance in every field of action of the highest and purest standards… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
The rock is a field of battle between our weakness and our strength. We wouldn't touch rock if we were perfectly self-controlled.… — Royal Robbins Copy Share Image
It takes many years to become proficient in energy conservation. But it is something that happens. You get continually stronger. You see… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
What's the point of fighting the dollars when all you need is a warm bed? When the dog barks you let him… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
My mother was determined to make us independent. When I was four years old, she stopped the car a few miles from… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
We got Sally Field onboard [in Smokey and the Bandit] and it changed the entire dynamic. About a third of the way… — Burt Reynolds Copy Share Image
Why use up the forests which were centuries in the making and the mines which required ages to lay down, if we… — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
There are no such men today. We have created a mechanism that makes it practically impossible for a real genius to appear.… — Erwin Chargaff Copy Share Image
This City now doth like a garment wear The beauty of the morning; silent, bare, Ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
Improv. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't, but when it does, it's like open-field running. — Robin Williams Copy Share Image
Obviously I love doing newsmaker interviews, and if I can contribute in any way to that, I would love to. I love… — Katie Couric Copy Share Image
In Advance of All Parting is a tough, unsentimental examination of marital grief. Musically elegant and inventive, understated and passionate, the poems… — Chase Twichell Copy Share Image
Be praised for all Your tenderness by these works of Your hands, suns that rise and rains that fall to bless and… — Rich Mullins Copy Share Image
The field of consciousness is tiny. It accepts only one problem at a time. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
In the year of our Lord 1314. Patriots of Scotland, starving and outnumbered, charged the fields of Bannockburn. They fought like warrior… — William Wallace Copy Share Image
Go with your love to the fields. Lie down in the shade. Rest your head in her lap. Swear allegiance to what… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
It was not until the end of my freshman year in high school that I thought I could really have a future… — Allyson Felix Copy Share Image
Jim Fregosi will be deeply missed in the baseball world. Joni and the rest of the family are in our prayers. Fregos,… — Darren Daulton Copy Share Image
The successful politician owes his power to the fact that he moves within the accepted framework of thought, that he thinks and… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
The later rain,--it falls in anxious haste Upon the sun-dried fields and branches bare, Loosening with searching drops the rigid waste, As… — Jones Very Copy Share Image
I doubt if many of my contemporaries, especially the older ones, did many exercises. I have often tried to picture (Godfrey) Evans… — Peter May Copy Share Image
People aren't the same. Business is, in my opinion, all about the team that fields the best players. It's not about an… — Jack Welch Copy Share Image