We are the kind of people who obsess over one word... but we have only one shot to get it right in… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
And I managed to arrange to get some research support and to stay in Hong Kong for another year and a half,… — Robert Jay Lifton Copy Share Image
Jail sentences have many functions, but one is surely to send a message about what our society abhors and what it values.… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
The royalists of the economic order have conceded that political freedom was the business of the government, but they have maintained that… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Look closely at those who patronize you. Half are unfeeling, half untaught. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I have actually known a case where a Woman has exterminated her whole household, and half an hour afterwards, when her rage… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Fifty percent of all doctors graduate in the bottom half of their class - Hope your surgery went well! — Simone Elkeles Copy Share Image
If it's nice out, I swim pretty much every day for about half an hour. I have a great pool; it's very… — Yunjin Kim Copy Share Image
People that marry can never part, but must go and keep house together. People that dance only stand opposite each other in… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
No country can succeed if it denies itself the talents of half of its people. — Richard N. Haass Copy Share Image
All of Hollywood is run on one assumption: That women will watch stories about men, but men won't watch stories about women.… — Geena Davis Copy Share Image
A theme that appears repeatedly in the writings of the social critics of the second half of the 20th century is the… — Theodore Kaczynski Copy Share Image
We don't want anybody to come off half-cocked and make a decision about what we're only in the middle of doing, right?… — Colm Feore Copy Share Image
Half of the results of a good intentions are evil; half the results of an evil intention are good. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
To write a good memoir you must become the editor of your own life, imposing on an untidy sprawl of half-remembered events… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
Half the bloody world is going through a divorce; more than that are having children. All of us have parents who are… — Sarah McLachlan Copy Share Image
I think the best thing about being dumb is that it makes magic a lot better. Where the hell did that rat… — Demetri Martin Copy Share Image
She gathers my half of the blankets around her and curls up against the wall. She will sleep for hours more, dreaming… — Isaac Marion Copy Share Image
The TV said you should ignore bullies and they would stop harassing you. In practice this worked about half the time. The… — Jennifer Echols Copy Share Image
Conran's Law of Housework - it expands to fill the time available plus half an hour. — Shirley Conran Copy Share Image
It takes about two and a half percent growth just to keep unemployment stable. — Ben Bernanke Copy Share Image
They will tell you that the Americans who sleep in the streets and beg for food got there because they're all lazy… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
