A stock certificate is not a tool, like a shovel, or a commodity, like a pound of cheese. What we sell a… — Jean Giraudoux Copy Share Image
One of the functions of government is to act as a safeguard not just of property but of our liberties. — William Weld Copy Share Image
Storytelling, you know, has a real function. The process of the storytelling is itself a healing process, partly because you have someone… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
I wonder whether art has a higher function than to make me feel, appreciate, and enjoy natural objects for their art value? — Bernard Berenson Copy Share Image
“The table that cannot stand upright, is an insult to the carpenter who makes it. God made us perfectly; so when we… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Of compelling consideration is the fact that words acquire scope and function from the history of events which they summarize. — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
I believe a lot of people that are gay, had even had problems like I had in the past. I think they've… — Joyce Meyer Copy Share Image
I've always shrunk from usurping the functions of Providence, and when I have to exercise them I decidedly prefer that it shouldn't… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
When do you know you're insane? And when do you known you're sane? I think I treat a fine line between the… — Siobhan Fahey Copy Share Image
I have not written a perfect sentence, in the literary sense. It's a lot easier to throw a perfect pass than to… — Greg Iles Copy Share Image
The one function that TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with… — David Brinkley Copy Share Image
Theatres, actors, critics and public are interlocked in a machine that creaks but never stops. There is always a new season in… — Peter Brook Copy Share Image
Emotional function and cognitive function aren't unrelated to each other. They're completely intertwined. — Amishi Jha Copy Share Image
All societies are based on rules to protect pregnant women and young children. All else is surplusage, excrescence, adornment, luxury, or folly… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
I had one artery that had lost its function and then they put another two stents in the junction near it as… — Paul Whitehouse Copy Share Image
The idea of changing or improving the world is alien to me and seems ludicrous. Society functions, and always has, without the… — Georg Baselitz Copy Share Image
The split in America, rather than simply economic, is between those who embrace reason, who function in the real world of cause… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
The degree to which a surviving parent copes is the most important indicator of the child's long-term adaptation. Kids whose surviving parents… — Hope Edelman Copy Share Image
Nevertheless, the ultimate business of philosophy is to preserve the force of the most elemental words in which Dasein expresses itself, and… — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
The greatest intensification of the horrors of war is a direct result of the democratisation of the State. So long as the… — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
Until and unless we could disband these militias, this country won't be able to function properly. — Adnan Pachachi Copy Share Image
If one writing contributed more than any other to the framework in which this work Sowell's Knowledge and Decisions developed, it would… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
A great writer has a high respect for values. His essential function is to raise life to the dignity of thought, and… — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
If the children and youth of a nation are afforded opportunity to develop their capacities to the fullest, if they are given… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To the Greeks, the supreme function of music was to "praise the gods and educate the youth". In Egypt... Initiatory music was… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
The elegant study... is consistent with the themes of modern cognitive neuroscience . Every aspect of thought and emotion is rooted in… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Now culture being a social product, I firmly believe that any work of art should have a social function to beautify, to… — Carlos Bulosan Copy Share Image
Shellac was asked to do a recreation of our first album, but we've always been a band that improvised our sets. That's… — Steve Albini Copy Share Image
Once upon a time ... the only autonomous intelligences we humans knew of were us humans. We thought then that if humankind… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
I mean that the function of the police is to solve problems that have law-enforcement consequences in a way that is based… — James Q. Wilson Copy Share Image
The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
Traditional sales and marketing involves increasing market shares, which means selling as much of your product as you can to as many… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
Most of us have no sympathy with the rich idler who spends his life in pleasure without ever doing any work. But… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Jackie O was so capable in so many ways. Hillary tried to redefine the role when she got into public policy, and… — Bellamy Young Copy Share Image
That work led to the emergence of the recombinant DNA technology thereby providing a major tool for analyzing mammalian gene structure and… — Paul Berg Copy Share Image
Militarism is basically a way of thinking, a certain interpretation of the function of the state; this manner of thinking is, moreover,… — Christian Lous Lange Copy Share Image
The picture is not made by the photographer, the picture is more good or less good in function of the relationship that… — Sebastiao Salgado Copy Share Image
If anything ail a man, so that he does not perform his functions, if he have a pain in his bowels even,-… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
