Be an unstoppable force. Write with an imaginary machete strapped to your thigh. This is not wishy-washy, polite, drinking-tea-with-your-pinkie-sticking-out stuff. It’s who… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
New York is the city of privilege. Here is the seat of the Invisible Power represented by the allied forces of finance… — William Jennings Bryan Copy Share Image
Roarke had to force himself not to snatch her up as she swept through the hallowed Senate halls. Members of the media… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Science and religion are not antagonists. On the contrary, they are sisters. While science tries to learn more about the creation, religion… — Wernher von Braun Copy Share Image
Nevertheless if any skillful Servant of Nature shall bring force to bear on matter, and shall vex it and drive it to… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
I think the spirit survives when we die, and nothing is wasted in nature and just as our material body disintegrates and… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
Neither Italian fascism nor German national "socialism" have anything in common with such a [Soviet socialistic] society, primarily because private ownership of… — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
Successful investors tend to be unemotional, allowing the greed and fear of others to play into their hands. By having confidence in… — Seth Klarman Copy Share Image
... if your heart and your honest body can be controlled by the state, or controlled by community taboo, are you not… — June Jordan Copy Share Image
Thus far I have explained the phenomena of the heavens and of our sea by the force of gravity, but I have… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
The evocative power of the drum can be compared to the Trinity. The drum's frame comes from the trunk of a tree,… — Babatunde Olatunji Copy Share Image
Modern Man is the victim of the very instruments he values most. Every gain in power, every mastery of natural forces, every… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
The best way to alleviate the obesity "public health" crisis is to remove obesity from the realm of public health. It doesn't… — Radley Balko Copy Share Image
My dad was the force behind me early on. He was just infatuated with baseball. He was the one that basically taught… — Rafael Palmeiro Copy Share Image
For, above all, I hold a notion of possibility and necessity according to which there are some things that are possible, but… — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
The romance of circumvention is one of the most destructive forces at work in our society. The American Idol freeway to greatness,… — Daniel Gillies Copy Share Image
Realism gives me the impression of a mistake. Violence alone escapes the feeling of poverty of those realistic experiences. Only death and… — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
As a human, I am flawed in that it is difficult for me to consider others before myself. It feels like I… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
There are two men in each one of us: the scientist, he who starts with a clear field and desires to rise… — Louis Pasteur Copy Share Image
The family is the corner stone of our society. More than any other force it shapes the attitude, the hopes, the ambitions,… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
Our possibilities of happiness are already restricted by our constitution. Unhappiness is much less difficult to experience. We are threatened with suffering… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
[T]he enshrinement of constitutional rights necessarily takes certain policy choices off the table… Undoubtedly some think that the Second Amendment is outmoded… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
It may indeed prove to be far the most difficult and not the least important task for human reason rationally to comprehend… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
Mankind has invested more than four million years of evolution in the attempt to avoid physical exertion. Now a group of backward-thinking… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
None of us needs instruction in how to recognize what your heart is saying. We do need guidance, however, on how to… — Caroline Myss Copy Share Image
As a German philosopher writing in the aftermath of the Nazi regime, Marcuse understood the sleep inducing force of indoctrination, its power… — Daniel Pinchbeck Copy Share Image
The tax that was supposed to soak the rich has instead soaked America. The beneficiary of the income tax has not been… — Paul Craig Roberts Copy Share Image
Faith ... is a conscious apprehension of something inevident, something which unlike this desk and this chair is not seen to be… — Bernard Lonergan Copy Share Image
For us necessity is not as of old an image without us, with whom we can do warfare; it is a magic… — Walter Pater Copy Share Image
Man was destined for society. His morality, therefore, was to be formed to this object. He was endowed with a sense of… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Collective guilt is borne by what is conventionally called the scapegoat. Now the scapegoat for white society - which is based on… — Frantz Fanon Copy Share Image
In point of fact there are a certain number of values and of forces which are of decisive importance in our world… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
Jesmyn Ward left her Gulf Coast home for education and experience, but it called her back. It called on her in most… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
To be sure, the use of force by one party in a market transaction in order to improve his price was no… — Immanuel Wallerstein Copy Share Image
There are certain times when you can maybe intimidate certain people to force them to make a mistake. There are other people… — Jeff Gordon Copy Share Image
Always man needs woman for his friend. He needs her clearer vision, her subtler insight, her softer thought, her winged soul, her… — Mary C. Ames Copy Share Image
It is not true that the perfection of police power is the result of the state's Machiavellianism or of some transitory influence.… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
Whether one believes or not, religion is as real a force in the life of the world as economics or politics, and… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
And in some way, Clary thought, he meant it, meant his gratitude. He had long ago lost the ability to distinguish between… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
After a period in which technocrats attempted to become stars and stars to become politicians, the political void has been occupied by… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image