Charity is an ugly trick. It is a virtue grown by the rich on the graves of the poor. Unless it is… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
I was recruited by the former Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong. And I never forgot his key message to me when he… — Vivian Balakrishnan Copy Share Image
Chris Christie travelled to Ft. Worth, Texas, to give his blessing to a former rival who one week ago was approvingly discussing… — Chris Hayes Copy Share Image
Self-reflection, or - what comes to the same thing - the urge to individuation, gathers together what is scattered and multifarious and… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
There are angels that receive more interiorly the Divine that goes forth from the Lord, and others that receive it less interiorly;… — Emanuel Swedenborg Copy Share Image
No one could seriously dispute that almost all of sub-Saharan Africa, all of North Africa except Morocco, all of the Middle East… — Conrad Black Copy Share Image
Find more pleasure in intelligent dissent than in passive agreement, for, if you value intelligence as you should, the former implies a… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Love the life you have while you create the life of your dreams. Don't think you have to wait for the latter… — Hal Elrod Copy Share Image
Accounts of outrages committed by mobs form the every-day news of the times. They have pervaded the country from New England to… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
In the event of the death of a current or former President, like the recent death of President Ronald Reagan, the flag… — Michael K. Simpson Copy Share Image
The eternal task of song can never be finished in a single lifetime. That is the beauty and fascination of the art.… — Nellie Melba Copy Share Image
I have zero desire, just so you know, to be in the limelight. I don't think it's good for the country to… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Folks, tomorrow America will get to hear those four words we've been waiting for: "Former president George Bush". — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
When we are unwilling to draw clear moral lines between free societies and fear societies, when we are unwilling to call the… — Natan Sharansky Copy Share Image
There is yet another kind of matrimonial dialect (which naturally succeeds this of talking at each other), which may very properlybe styled… — Sarah Fielding Copy Share Image
Men seem neither to understand their riches nor their strength. Of the former they believe greater things than they should; of the… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
We have to avoid the spiritual sickness of a self-referentia l church. It's true that when you get out into the street,… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Most of the slaves, who were thus unconditionally freed, returned without any solicitation to their former masters, to serve them, at stated… — Thomas Clarkson Copy Share Image
When the interval between the intellectual classes and the practical classes is too great, the former will possess no influence, the latter… — Henry Thomas Buckle Copy Share Image
Vanity Fair magazine reports that former President Clinton and Al Gore haven't spoken to each other since George W. Bush's inauguration. Not… — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
Bible prophecies indicate that in the last dispensation of the gospel, there would be a restoration of all of the principles and… — David B. Haight Copy Share Image
[A]nother important difference between tourist and traveler is that the former accepts his own civilization without question; not so the traveler, who… — Paul Bowles Copy Share Image