Barack Obama is an elegant and literate man with a cosmopolitan sense of the world. He is widely read in philosophy, literature,… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
Even as one heat another heat expels, or as one nail by strength drives out another, so the remembrance of my former… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
If you want to write, then write; if you don't want to write, then don't write. I fell into the former category,… — Ben Fountain Copy Share Image
But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state? — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Today, former President Bill Clinton met with North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Il and convinced him to release two American journalists that have… — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
Being aware of truths about what is good or right or about what we ought to do is not the same as… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
It looks too new and pristine ever to have been read by anyone else, but it has been: it keeps falling open… — Helene Hanff Copy Share Image
My former people were not totally wrong. Love is a kind of possession. It’s a poison. And if Alex no longer loves… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
Two centuries ago, a former European colony decided to catch up with Europe. It succeeded so well that the United States of… — Frantz Fanon Copy Share Image
All these souls, after they have passed away a thousand years, are summoned by the divine ones in great array, to the… — Virgil Copy Share Image
The sport is definitely growing, and has become much more competitive. When I started, you were either a former swimmer or runner… — Timothy O'Donnell Copy Share Image
In explaining the Constitution, James Madison, the acknowledged father of the Constitution, wrote in Federalist Paper 45: 'The powers delegated by the… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
Life is very difficult. It seems right to me sometimes that we should follow our strongest feelings; but then such feelings continually… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The bud disappears when the blossom breaks through, and we might say that the former is refuted by the latter; in the… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
The sources of our knowledge of the kabalistic doctrines are the books of Yetzirah and Zohar, the former drawn up in the… — Albert Pike Copy Share Image
I've always deplored bad heterosexual values that dictate the minute a marriage is over the former partners no longer speak to each… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
But an escape less self-depreciating was taken by Lord Westbury, who, it is said, rebuffed a barrister's reliance upon an earlier opinion… — Robert H. Jackson Copy Share Image
Although many seniors are happy with the generous drug coverage they have from their former employers, the number of companies offering that… — Jim Gerlach Copy Share Image
Soho is a gritty former mercantile area that has, of course, evolved into the most bourgeois neighborhood in New York. — Andre Balazs 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
The laughter of adults was always very different from the laughter of children. The former indicated a recognition of the familiar, but… — Elizabeth Hardwick Copy Share Image
"Tiger is a natural kind" and "Tiger is a historical particular" are incompatible with each other, and evolutionary biology provides a reason… — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
Make no man your friend before inquiring how he has used his former friends; for you must expect him to treat you… — Isocrates Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of photographers: those who compose pictures and those who take them. The former work in studios. For the… — Ernst Haas Copy Share Image
