When any one person or body of men seize into their hands the power in the last resort, there is properly no… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
And money, if the pile gets high enough, is something like a big political party: it does as much harm as it… — Gregory David Roberts Copy Share Image
The book which the reader now holds in his hands, from one end to the other, as a whole and in its… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
People will say you should quit running if you're a slow runner. Or you should quit basketball if you can't dribble with… — Timothy Shriver Copy Share Image
You’re better off fighting hand to hand than wielding a weapon you don’t know how to use. A skilled opponent would simply… — Maria V. Snyder Copy Share Image
The truth was I knew, after all those flat January days, that I deserved better. I deserved I love yous and kiwi… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
People think that I've committed myself to idealism, to solipsism, or to doctrines of the cabala, because I've used them in my… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
pity runs its course. An hour comes when no hand but your own can build your future. — Zelda Popkin Copy Share Image
People can't be just tied together. They have to connect. Otherwise, they'll find themselves bound hand and foot. — Ai Yazawa Copy Share Image
The refugees flee to protect their families from violence; the Europeans, on the other hand, fear for their jobs that they need… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
The art of life is to show your hand. There is no diplomacy like candor. You may lose by it now and… — E. V. Lucas Copy Share Image
I do wash my hands in innocency, before God and the face of you, good Christian people this day. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
At the time I attempted to purchase the rights back for the 3 Homestead records, but the owner demanded an outrageous sum… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The war on drugs is not being won, and it continues to threaten stability and democracy not only in the Andes but… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
Ironically, people who suppress the mini-confrontations for fear of conflict tend to have huge conflicts later, which can lead to separation, precisely… — Ray Dalio Copy Share Image
Captain Crawford didn't like the idea of any kind of murder, but he went at it patiently and honestly and with none… — Leslie Ford Copy Share Image
Prayer is an exchange. We leave our burdens, worries and sin in the hands of God. We come away with oil of… — F.B. Meyer Copy Share Image
The leaves that are green turn to brown. And they wither with the wind. And they crumble in your hand. — Paul Simon Copy Share Image
I want to mesmerize people. I study dancing, so I use my hands. The people love all that kind of stupid things.… — Walter Mercado Copy Share Image
There is more blood than paint upon these hands. All those thousands of men killed. We thought it would be a little… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
The Soviet Union was, by the 1970s and 1980s, relatively stable and predictable. Putin's Russia is much more volatile. Nuclear policy is… — Anne Applebaum Copy Share Image
The scrawled words of practice stood magnificently on the wall by the stairs, jagged and childlike and sweet. They looked on as… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
Jasmine smirke at the weapon in my hand. "That little toothpick won't save you, Gypsy." "Touthpick?" Vic muttered in an indignant voice.… — Jennifer Estep Copy Share Image
Spirituality brings a class of men who lay exclusive claim to the special powers of the world. The immediate effect of this… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Science, my dears, is the systematic dissection of nature, to reduce it to working parts that more or less obey universal laws.… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
I actually did trouble to read Marx first hand. I found it illuminating in so many ways; in particular, my perception of… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
Our culture, therefore, must not omit the arming of the man. Let him hear in season, that he is born into the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
When Freedom from her mountain-height Unfurled her standard to the air, She tore the azure robe of night, And set the stars… — Joseph Rodman Drake Copy Share Image
Hundreds of feet above us, cars whisked by, oblivious to our drama. Up there were the shortcuts, the excuses, the world of… — Stefan Kieszling Copy Share Image
The future is in your hearts and in your hands. God is entrusting to you the task, at once difficult and uplifting,… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
If you follow your heart, if you listen to your gut, and if you extend your hand to help another, not for… — Erin Brockovich Copy Share Image
Funding that is focused on the ability to diagnose diseases precisely will just have inestimable value because that's the gate through which… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
Yea, let them which have been redeemed of the Lord, shew how He hath delivered them from the hand of the oppressor.… — William Bradford Copy Share Image
...there was a blond misty boy sitting beside me, and he looked at me, and I at him, and we were not… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
For more than five years I maintained myself thus solely by the labour of my hands, and I found, that by working… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
