Every living thing is a sort of imperialist, seeking to transform as much as possible of its environment into itself . .… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I know that one is able to win people far more by the spoken that by the written word, and that every… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
A lodestone is a wonderful thing in very many experiments, and like living things. And one of its remarkable virtues in that… — William Gilbert Copy Share Image
When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop, striped and dotted with continents and islands, flying through space with other… — John Muir Copy Share Image
A single nation that has succeeded in lowering the intelligence, the morality, the quality of the human race almost throughout the globe… — Henry de Montherlant Copy Share Image
Mostly I think I've learned to trust God more. I mean, if I start getting worried or freaked, I just try to… — Melody Carlson Copy Share Image
The occurrence of successive forms of life upon our globe is an historical fact, which cannot be disputed; and the relation of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
business itself is now the most powerful force for change in the world today, richer and faster by far than most governments.… — Anita Roddick Copy Share Image
Architecture, either practically considered or viewed as an art of taste, is a subject so important and comprehensive in itself, that volumes… — Andrew Jackson Downing Copy Share Image
I speak without exaggeration when I say that I have constructed 3,000 different theories in connection with the electric light, each one… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
The world beyond 450 ppm atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide, the world that crosses carbon cycle tipping points that quickly take us… — Joseph J. Romm Copy Share Image
And I despise your books, I despise wisdom and the blessings of this world. It is all worthless, fleeting, illusory, and deceptive,… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
I have to deplore the systematic manner in which the literature of Europe has continued to put out of sight our obligations… — John William Draper Copy Share Image
The gay marriage thing to me, I don't understand why it's so important for the secular progressives in this country, the people… — Bill O'Reilly Copy Share Image
I feel all agitated, like one of those snow globes you see resting peacefully on shop counters. I was perfectly happy being… — Sophie Kinsella Copy Share Image
This revelation of the secrets of nature, long mercifully withheld from man, should arouse the most solemn reflections in the mind and… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Kunlun Mountain Over the earth the greenblue monster Kunlun who has seen all spring color and passion of men. Three million dragons… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
Great music can come from anywhere around the globe. And there has always been a music business. It just wasn't recorded, nor… — Seymour Stein Copy Share Image
Great works are performed, not by strength, but by perseverance. Those that walk with vigor, three hours a day, will pass in… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
If we truly believe that every girl in every corner of the globe is worthy of an education as our own daughters… — Michelle Obama Copy Share Image
We are facing incredible challenges in the economy of the U.S. and the economy of the globe, but the stock market, we… — John C. Bogle Copy Share Image
I am honored to be to be part of the biggest sports event in the world. The fact that the Games are… — Tiesto Copy Share Image
There is on the globe one single spot, the possessor of which is our natural and habitual enemy. It is New Orleans,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Where on the globe can there be found an area of equal extent with that occupied by the bulk of our States,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The crystal sphere of thought is as concentrical as the geological structure of the globe. As our soils and rocks lie in… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The U.S. should stop garrisoning the globe, subsidizing rich friends, and reconstructing poor enemies. Instead, it's about time Washington focused on defending… — Doug Bandow Copy Share Image
What exactly did you find in Atlanta?” Frank unzipped his backpack and started bringing out souvenirs. “Some peach preserves. A couple of… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Our panaceas cure but few ails, our general hospitals are private and exclusive. We must set up another Hygeia than is now… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The past history of our globe must be explained by what can be seen to be happening now. No powers are to… — James Hutton Copy Share Image
Nothing can be more destructive to ambition, and the passion for conquest, than the true system of astronomy. What a poor thing… — Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle Copy Share Image
Under the dominion of the priests our earth became the ascetic planet; a squalid den careering through space, peopled by discontented and… — Georg Brandes Copy Share Image
America's not the world's policeman. Terrible things happen across the globe and it is beyond our means to right every wrong. But… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
The field of the Geologist's inquiry is the Globe itself, ... [and] it is his study to decipher the monuments of the… — William Buckland Copy Share Image
In a single generation, the Internet has given to virtually every person on the face of the earth the ability to communicate… — Bob Barr Copy Share Image
The French manner of hunting is gentlemanlike; ours is only for bumpkins and bodies. The poor beasts here are pursued and run… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
See how the Orient dew, Shed from the bosom of the morn Into the blowing roses, Yet careless of its mansion new;… — Andrew Marvell Copy Share Image
Sadly most films only get exposure if they win an award or were in a festival, which is really difficult because those… — Kate del Castillo Copy Share Image
Amid all the revolutions of the globe, the economy of Nature has been uniform, ... and her laws are the only things… — John Playfair Copy Share Image
The observations, so numerous and so important, of the pendulum as object are especially relevant to the length of its oscillations. Those… — Leon Foucault Copy Share Image
The trout that seem to stick in my memory the finest aren't the big ones, and maybe it's because I have't visited… — William G. Tapply Copy Share Image