I think one of the most shocking things is how little our elected officials knew about what the NSA was doing. Congress… — Laura Poitras Copy Share Image
As a former career intelligence professional, I have a profound appreciation for the value of intelligence. Intelligence disrupts terrorist plots and thwarts… — John O. Brennan Copy Share Image
My former bullies pay extra to come backstage and meet me after shows, and I pretend not to know them in front… — Margaret Cho Copy Share Image
I don't see much difference between prose poems and flash fiction (I've often taught the latter as the former), but then I… — Matthea Harvey Copy Share Image
Ethically they had arrived at the conclusion that man's supremacy over lower animals meant not that the former should prey upon the… — Mahatma Gandhi 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
The key to teaching anything is to remember what it was like not to understand that thing. That's a very hard thing… — David Goodstein Copy Share Image
We may wonder at the choice of Israel and Rome as the archetypes of the new nation, in view of the long… — Robert Neelly Bellah Copy Share Image
That, in part, is why the Constitution's framers gave justices life tenure ? to enable them to rule wherever the law and… — Gerald R. Ford Copy Share Image
An old joke has an Oxford professor meeting an American former graduate student and asking him what he's working on these days.… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
It's a different outlook, and one that I understand. When you are a former member of the Warsaw Pact, when you have… — Jean-Pierre Raffarin Copy Share Image
Although I knew enough Freud to believe that the sex urge was an important mainspring of life, it still seemed to me… — Paul Bowles Copy Share Image
Every man is proud of what he does well; and no man is proud of what he does not do well. With… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
He (former President Gerald Ford) made it very clear that he did not agree with the reasons President Bush laid out for… — Bob Woodward Copy Share Image
The difference between a rich man and a poor man is this--the former eats when he pleases, and the latter when he… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Movie stars are doing TV series, and former TV stars are doing guest shots. Everybody gets bumped down the line. That's affected… — Zeljko Ivanek Copy Share Image
Soon after I returned to private practice, former Supreme Court Chief Justice Warren Burger called me one day. — Fred F. Fielding Copy Share Image
The man whom philosophy leaves cold, and the man whom real faith does not illuminate, may be assured that the fault lies… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
Naturally, business and pleasure can be readily combined, but a certain balance should exist, and the latter should not predominate over the… — Fredrik Bajer Copy Share Image
Be a balanced optimist. Nobody is suggesting that you become an oblivious Pollyanna, pretending that nothing bad can or ever will happen.… — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
We should try to achieve things for ourselves and not rely on former or past family glories with which we have no… — Shirley Franklin Copy Share Image
Let my muse Fail of thy former helps, and only use Her inadulterate strength. What's done by me Hereafter shall smell of… — Robert Herrick Copy Share Image
Like Andy Warhol and unlike God Almighty, Larry King does not presume to judge; all celebrities are equal in his eyes, saints… — James Wolcott Copy Share Image
Oh! men and brethren, what would this heart feel if I could but believe that there were some among you who would… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
