The time that one gains cannot be accumulated in a storehouse; it is contradictory to want to save up existence, which, the… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
In my former life I was in insider, as much as anybody else. And I knew what it's like, and I still… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
A free society depends upon a high degree of mutual trust. The public will not give that trust to officials who are… — Archibald Cox Copy Share Image
UN peacekeeping operations are now increasingly complex and multi-dimensional, going beyond monitoring a ceasefire to actually bringing failed States back to life,… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
Trust on and think To-morrow will repay; To-morrow's falser than the former day; Lies worse; and while it says, we shall be… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
We began as mineral. We emerged into plant life, and into the animal state, and then into being human, and always we… — Rumi Copy Share Image
The average American expends more time becoming informed about choosing a car than choosing a candidate. But, then, the consequences of the… — George Will Copy Share Image
Accepting the reality of our sinfulness means accepting our authentic self. Judas could not face his shadow; Peter could. The latter befriended… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
Whether Theresa May had stabbed has stabbed the former Mayor of London in the back and Michael Gove had stabbed him in… — Nigel Evans Copy Share Image
You are also asked to take an oath, and that's the oath of service. The oath of service is not to secrecy,… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
You can't write about a friend, you can only write about a former friend. — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
Time is a vindictive bandit to steal the beauty of our former selves. We are left with sagging, rippled flesh and burning… — Raphael Copy Share Image
There are certainly people who regard √2 as something perfectly obvious but jib at √-1. This is because they think they can… — Edward Charles Titchmarsh Copy Share Image
As the former U.S. Ambassador to Japan, I dealt on a daily basis with China. — Bill Hagerty Copy Share Image
If a man had begun to hate an object of his love, so that love is thoroughly destroyed, he will, causes being… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
I make this chief distinction between religion and superstition, that the latter is founded on ignorance, the former on knowledge. — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
I'm a working-class former apprentice electrician; at the age of 14, if you'd told me I would one day be standing on… — John Gordon Sinclair Copy Share Image
A poet who makes use of a worse word instead of a better, because the former fits the rhyme or the measure,… — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
The difference in the education of men and women must give the former great advantages over the latter, even where geniuses are… — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
Do not confuse fantasy with imagination; the former consumes itself in daydreaming, the latter stimulates creativity in the arts and in the… — Fausto Cercignani Copy Share Image
President Obama gave a speech about healthcare tonight, and yesterday he gave a pep talk to students. He told them that in… — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
Our citizenship in the United States is our national character. Our citizenship in any particular state is only our local distinction. By… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The more civilized a nation, the more conformed its population, until that civilization's last age arrives, when multiplicity wages war with conformity.… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
