Those who have to face persistent political persecution become highly politicized. Our lives take on a rhythm different from those who, on… — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
We have probed the earth, excavated it, burned it, ripped things from it, buried things in it.... That does not fit my… — Rose Bird Copy Share Image
I would especially like to appeal to my country's media that we should stop looking at everything in India from the prism… — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
Science fiction has always had a dark side. There has been a touch of the irrational and absurd in the genre from… — Douglas Lain Copy Share Image
I have been in Paris for almost a week and I have not heard anyone say calories, or cholesterol, or even arterial… — Mary-Lou Weisman Copy Share Image
I am well acquainted with all the arguments against freedom of thought and speech - the arguments which claim that it cannot… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
It has been preached in every country, taught everywhere, but only believed in by a few, because until we get the experience… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
Serious harm, I am afraid, has been wrought to our generation by fostering the idea that they would live secure in a… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
Learn technique; have full command to the extent of not being conscious of how it is done. When craftsmanship has been developed,… — Sergei Bongart Copy Share Image
I have been working with the World Health Organization since 1989 in an effort to redefine approaches to contraceptive introduction. This has… — Ruth Simmons Copy Share Image
It is just this rage for consideration that has betrayed the dog into his satellite position as the friend of man. The… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
I have been practising since I was 4 or 5 years old, but that wasn't really practice. I was just having fun....… — Sidney Crosby Copy Share Image
Given that the Al Qaeda core has been significantly destroyed or disabled, and that the leadership seems to be essentially on the… — Graham T. Allison Copy Share Image
Paradigms of Republican vs. Democrat or Conservative vs. Progressive have been designed for obfuscation and entertainment. — Catherine Austin Fitts Copy Share Image
Don't take too much advice. Most people who have a lot of advice to give ~ with a few exceptions ~ generalize… — Ben Silbermann Copy Share Image
I have been tortured with longing to believe ... and the yearning grows stronger the more cogent the intellectual difficulties stand in… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Real liberty exists only there where exploitation has been annihilated, where no oppression of some peoples by others exists, where there is… — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
There is that might-have-been which is the single rock we cling to above the maelstrom of unbearable reality. — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Bodybuilding has been the tool that single-handedly taught a little black boy from the projects to use his mind to achieve success.… — Kai Greene Copy Share Image
I am neither a pessimist nor an optimist. I am a realist, and the reality in Iraq is that it has been… — David Petraeus Copy Share Image
O how long ago the earth would have been destroyed, if Mary had not interposed! — Fulgentius of Cartagena Copy Share Image
Tranquillizers do not change our environment, nor do they change our personalities. They merely reduce our responsiveness to stimuli. They dull the… — Indra Devi Copy Share Image
I feel very fortunate to have been a part of many successful contemporary horror franchises. — Corey Feldman Copy Share Image
Pessimism and hopelessness are two assassins that have been hired by very ourselves to kill ourselves! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Light-skinned black people are seen to be closer to white people. The allegiance to lighter-skinned people has operated in a very destructive… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
Snowden is almost preternaturally prepossessing and self-possessed. I think of a novelist whose dream character just walks into his or her head.… — Laura Poitras Copy Share Image
“Consider this: all the ants on the planet, taken together, have a biomass greater than that of humans. Ants have been incredibly… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You have got to play the game with the cards that have been dealt to you, and it is of no use… — Anna Brackett Copy Share Image
Our armies do not come into your cities and lands as conquerors or enemies, but as liberators. Your wealth has been stripped… — Frederick Stanley Maude Copy Share Image
Everything they do, from smiling to crying, feels like a blessing. Being a father feels amazing. This has been the most spiritual… — Ricky Martin Copy Share Image
Traditionally in Christian circles, Judas in fact has been associated with Jews. Of being traitors, avaricious, who in fact, betray Jesus, who… — Bart D. Ehrman Copy Share Image
It has been left to the last Christians, or rather to the first Christians fully committed to blaspheming and denying Christianity, to… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
In the United States the White House has appointed two different independent panels who had full access to classified information for the… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
Dignity, in private men and in governments, has been little else than a stately and stiff perseverance in oppression; and spirit, as… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
Liberty, then, about which so many volumes have been written is, when accurately defined, only the power of acting. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
The Democrats have an economic message that is directed at people at the lower end. That has been their cornerstone. The Republicans… — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
Outside of my family, the prime concern of my life has been nature and its order, and how we have been savagely… — James Cagney Copy Share Image
I was 16 when my father died, and I had a choice to come back and live in his house or I'd… — Rula Jebreal Copy Share Image
I have been painting white people for much longer in my life than I have done for colored people. — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
Investigative journalism and reporting has become much more dangerous. This is especially true for journalists and sources in National Security - but… — Chelsea Manning Copy Share Image
