In a sense, knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows, for details are swallowed up in principles. The details for knowledge which are important,… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
My final question: Why are we not looking at moving out onto the sea? Why do we have programs to build a… — Robert Ballard Copy Share Image
Few things infuse a member of Congress with more courage than self-imposed term limits or an imminent retirement. The issues they choose… — Tom Coburn Copy Share Image
We all get report cards in many different ways, but the real excitement of what you're doing is in the doing of… — Ralph Lauren Copy Share Image
The Greeks had considered hope the final evil in Pandora's box. They also gave us an image of perfect nobility: a human… — Walter Kaufmann Copy Share Image
There must be a new world if there is to be any world at all!... These days of universal death must be… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
I am, when you stop to think of it, a member of a fairly select group: the final handful of American novelists… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
There is nothing disastrous in the temporary nature of our ideas. They are always that. But there may very easily be a… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
The most widely discussed formulation of [the One World model] was the "end of history" thesis advanced by Francis Fukuyama. "We may… — Samuel P. Huntington Copy Share Image
It is a matter of glimpsing that in God's new creation, of which Jesus's resurrection is the start, all that was good… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Let us hope our weapons are never needed -but do not forget what the common people knew when they demanded the Bill… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
The fact that lately some circles, not less powerful by their small size, have been actively promoting certain theories, as dangerous as… — Alfonso Garcia Robles Copy Share Image
There are many reasons for violence. This is just something that sometimes happens. We'd see it in treatment centers - the child… — Stephen Dobyns Copy Share Image
It's never the practice to shoot the scenes in the proper order. Sometimes you shoot the final scenes of a film before… — Luke Evans Copy Share Image
Revolution is everywhere, in everything. It is infinite. There is no final revolution, no final number. The social revolution is only one… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
Well, the experience for me making a film is the most profound one. I really don’t have any business watching the movie… — Jared Leto Copy Share Image
Such abstraction which refuses to accept the given universe of facts as the final context of validation, such "transcending" analysis of the… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
Communism is the final logic of the dehumanization of man. The industrial civilization of the Western world has no intent to destroy… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
The oceans are pretty unexplored places and the final frontier on our planet; also because they're the source of life. There are… — Peter Sarsgaard Copy Share Image
The final cover for 'Heroes Are My Weakness' feels exactly right. It reflects the cold, wintry setting of an isolated island off… — Susan Elizabeth Phillips Copy Share Image
On the whole, it is patience which makes the final difference between those who succeed or fail in all things. All the… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Then I think of the dark, and the lights, and the roaring, and Juliet, and before I can think of anything else,… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
I'm no Buddhist monk, and I can't say I'm in love with renunciation in itself, or traveling an hour or more to… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
Blood is a cleansing and sanctifying thing, and the nation that regards it as the final horror has lost its manhood... there… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A river finds its course with sureness, pushing aside whatever surface matter lies in its way, and as it gathers volume and… — Laura Gilpin Copy Share Image
We knew we just had to win the heat to get in a good spot for the finals. We didn't want to… — Samantha Cheverton Copy Share Image
You have to wait together - for a week, for a year, for a lifetime, before the final intimate conversation may be… — Ford Madox Ford Copy Share Image
It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in spring, when everything else begins again, and… — A. Bartlett Giamatti Copy Share Image
The greatest of all crosses is self. If we die in part every day, we shall have but little to do on… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
The desire to build a house is the tired wish of a man content thenceforward with a single anchorage. The desire to… — Arthur Ransome Copy Share Image
Death used to announce itself in the thick of life but now people drag on so long it sometimes seems that we… — Ronald Blythe Copy Share Image
To assign unanswered letters their proper weight, to free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves--there lies… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
In war there are none but particular cases; everything has there an individual nature; nothing ever repeats itself. In the first place,… — Ferdinand Foch Copy Share Image
When did it become the law of the land that the Supreme Court has the final say on anything? They cannot have… — Rick Santorum Copy Share Image
Stuffwise we are not a lean operation. We're the kind of people who, if we were deciding what absolute minimum essential items… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
After 1909, Monet drastically enlarged his brushstrokes, disintegrated his images, and broke through the taming constraints and delicacy of Impressionism for good.… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
As long as this deliberate refusal to understand things from above, even where such understanding is possible, continues, it is idle to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
[R]efusing or not refusing to execute a law to stamp it with its final character . . . makes the Judiciary department… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The day that witnesses the conversion of our ministers into political and philosophical speculators or scientific lecturers, will witness the final decay… — Peter Bayne Copy Share Image
Fairy tale does not deny the existence of sorrow and failure: the possibility of these is necessary to the joy of deliverance.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image