Corruption is worse than prostitution. The latter might endanger the morals of an individual, the former invariably endangers the morals of the… — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
There is only one difference between teacher and disciple: the former is slightly less afraid than the latter.” ~Deidre O’Neill, known as… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
We will revive the emergency employment program established by former President Corazon Aquino. This will provide jobs for local communities and will… — Benigno Aquino III 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
History with its flickering lamp stumbles along the trail of the past, trying to reconstruct its scenes, to revive its echoes, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Forgiveness is the giving and so the receiving of life. the latter may be an impulse of a moment of heat; whereas… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
Well, Keith Alexander, the former director of the NSA wants to say every company in the United States falls under one of… — Ted Koppel Copy Share Image
I have sold more books on physics than Madonna has on sex. [Hawking adopted this statement from a remark made to him… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
In your friendships and in your enmities let your confidence and your hostilities have certain bounds; make not the former dangerous, nor… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Chrysostom, I remember, mentions a twofold book of God: the book of the creatures, and the book of the scriptures. God, having… — Cotton Mather Copy Share Image
It is not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger. It is… — David Hume Copy Share Image
But, because my private lectures and domestic pupils are a great hinderance and intteruption of my studies, I wish to live entirely… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
Say I feel all sad and self-indulgent, then get stung by a wasp, my misery feels quite abstract and I long just… — Russell Brand Copy Share Image
America's Facebook generation shows a submission to standardization that I haven't seen before. The American adventure has always been about people forgetting… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
Who when examining in the cabinet of the entomologist the gay and exotic butterflies, and singular cicadas, will associate with these lifeless… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
[Pitchblende] consists of a peculiar, distinct, metallic substance. Therefore its former denominations, pitch-blende, pitch-iron-ore, &c. are no longer applicable, and must be… — Martin Heinrich Klaproth Copy Share Image
Former Vermont Governor Howard Dean was all smiles, well smirks, after picking up the endorsement of former Vice President Al Gore at… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
The correct relationship between the higher and lower classes, the appropriate mutual interaction between the two is, as such, the true underlying… — Johann Gottlieb Fichte Copy Share Image
The human understanding when it has once adopted an opinion (either as being the received opinion or as being agreeable to itself)… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
My spirits rose as I went deeper; into the forest; but I could not regain my former elasticity of mind. I found… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
When I was young, my mother [folk singer Kate McGarrigle] brought home this recording of Verdi's Requiem and we listened to it… — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share Image
A half century from now, our grandchildren are likely to look back at the era of mass employment in the market with… — Jeremy Rifkin Copy Share Image
Being a former dancer, classical dancer, it informed me as a human being just in terms of the grace I guess. Ballet… — Zoe Saldana Copy Share Image
To a naturalist nothing is indifferent; the humble moss that creeps upon the stone is equally interesting as the lofty pine which… — James Hutton Copy Share Image
Former Governor [Jeb] Bush calling for an end all together of the Supplemental Nutrition Program, or what some people call food stamps… — Melissa Harris-Perry Copy Share Image
Morality is the fruit of religion: to desire the former without the latter is to desire an orange without an orange-tree. — Philibert Joseph Roux Copy Share Image
Zombies have no memories of their former life. You wont see the undead trying to wash windows or do your taxes. All… — Max Brooks Copy Share Image
If it were possible to make an accurate calculation of the evils which police regulations occasion, and of those which they prevent,… — Wilhelm von Humboldt Copy Share Image
Mitt Romney, two-time Republican presidential hopeful, boxed former heavyweight champion of the world Evander Holyfield for charity. It was a horrible moment… — David Letterman 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
Ex-convicts prepared the eggs for the White House’s Easter Egg Roll. It’s nice to see the White House reaching out to former… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
The red directors were one of the main political forces. Another force was the former Soviet ministers who lost everything because of… — Anatoly Chubais Copy Share Image
When I was growing up in the south Indian city of Madras, there were only two political parties that mattered; one was… — Aravind Adiga Copy Share Image
He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatness of soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
Family violence is a criminal act; perpetrators, while often former victims themselves, need to accept culpability. — Leslie Morgan Steiner Copy Share Image
Persecutors, like Victims, act out of fear. The may seem fearless, but actually Persecutors are almost always former Victims. — David Emerald Womeldorff Copy Share Image
Never, ever ask a former clergyman to say the blessing over a holiday dinner. Not if you like your dinner warm, anyway. — Mary Kay Andrews Copy Share Image
Some kids, for some reason, it just doesn't click in the classroom as they need it to. We have college coaches talk… — Anonymous 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
Humanity and bestiality: when will the former finally be uttered with the flavor of hate and the latter with the flavor of… — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image