In the North, the sale of government bonds was the one measure for raising funds that seemed to work. Even that, however,… — G. Edward Griffin Copy Share Image
We have lit upon the gentle, sensitive mind And lost the old nonchalance of the hand; Whether we have chosen chisel, pen… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
I'm the first Thai prime minister in history that first time win half of parliament seats and second time win 76% of… — Thaksin Shinawatra Copy Share Image
The essence of air transport is speed, and speed is unfortunately one of the most expensive commodities in the world, principally because… — J. R. D. Tata Copy Share Image
I recently learned that in an average lifetime a person walks about sixty-five thousand miles. That's two and a half times around… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
If the Bible is not the Word of God and inspired, the whole of Christendom for 1800 years has been under an… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
The purpose of adolescence is to revise the past, not to obliterate it. . . . Adolescence entails the deployment of family… — Louise J. Kaplan Copy Share Image
Many men, seemingly impelled by fortune, hasten forward to meet misfortune half way. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
I'd play for half my salary if I could hit in this dump (Wrigley Field) all the time. — Babe Ruth Copy Share Image
Will's Father's gaze went immediately to Gabriel, and then to Cecily, his eyes narrowing. "And who is this gentlemen?" Will's grin widened.… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
In survey after survey, people report that the greatest dangers they face are, in this order: terrorist attack, plane crashes and nuclear… — Will Self Copy Share Image
Think what the world could look like if we took care of the poor even half as well as we do our… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
I'm a slave to this leaf in a diary that lists what I must do, what I must say, every half hour. — Golda Meir Copy Share Image
I wrote 'Always Love' in 10 minutes. It's a very positive song, more positive than I am in reality, but I was… — Matthew Caws Copy Share Image
I don't understand these national awards, because half of those who sit in judgement over Indian films do not... possess the competence… — Satyajit Ray Copy Share Image
I don't know how many bestsellers I've got, or half the awards I've won, and I don't really care. I'm just having… — R. A. Salvatore Copy Share Image
Dude, the place is filling up," I say. "It feels like we're living in the bottom half of an hourglass." Like somehow… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
...solitary like a pool at evening, far distant, seen from a train window, vanishing so quickly that the pool, pale in the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I eat a lot of kale, and I drink about half a gallon to a gallon of water a day. — John Salley Copy Share Image
They copied all they could copy, But they couldn't copy my mind; And I left them sweatin' and stealin', A year and… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
I feel like I come from a smaller off shoot of black people because I am mixed. People say I'm African American… — Maya Rudolph Copy Share Image
You must know the story of how the race of ancient days reached the stars, and how they bargained away all the… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
It is said that the American vocabulary has declined by half in the past few decades. It's a tragic instance of desertification… — Stephanie Mills Copy Share Image
Thank you. It used to be knee length, but then I discovered that when I get angry I like to cut things.… — Emilie Autumn Copy Share Image
My heart is broken by the terrible loss I have sustained in my old friends and companions and my poor soldiers. Believe… — Duke of Wellington Copy Share Image
For me, writing for younger audiences and writing for adults uses two different halves of my brain. — Sara Shepard Copy Share Image
Living out one's faith is either no way to live or the only way to live; it's either imprisonment, or the only… — Tarek Saab Copy Share Image
We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
In half hour my mother has managed to give me what my father couldn't: my past. — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
My mother thought of my father as half barbarian and half blunt instrument, and she isolated him from his children. — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
The fancy term for what America has squandered in the past year and a half or so is legitimacy. — Todd Gitlin Copy Share Image
There are true unseen forces, but not nearly so many as we believe, nor would they rule us so sternly if we… — Robert Silverberg Copy Share Image
I saw that the State was half-witted, that it was timid as a lone woman with her silver spoons, and that it… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The worst criminals are not half so immoral as the creators and perpetrators of the unquestionable hell of Christian theology — M. M. Mangasarian Copy Share Image
I believe that alternative healing methods are much more than just temporary or half measures. — Andrew Saul Copy Share Image
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