Ignorance has been well represented under the similitude of a dungeon, where, though it is full of life, yet darkness and silence… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
Fascism and communism have not entirely disappeared but have been sidelined certainly, and liberal democracy has come to be accepted, in theory… — Samuel P. Huntington Copy Share Image
The breaking of the alabaster box and the anointing of the Lord filled the house with the odor, with the sweetest odor.… — Watchman Nee Copy Share Image
Most of the major ills of the world have been caused by well-meaning people who ignored the principle of individual freedom, except… — Henry Grady Weaver Copy Share Image
Why is history important? Without history, many people have no idea how many of today's half-baked ideas have been tried, again and… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
We must protect the minority writers because they are the research workers of literature. They keep it alive. It has been fashionable… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
What the left ends up missing is that politics have always been at the heart of American culture; it's been a white… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
Just look at the history of cinema. The most reproduced male character is probably the hero and the most reproduced female character… — Ruben Ostlund Copy Share Image
Robert Nozick [a Havard philosopher, famous for his book "Anarchy, State and Utopia"] defined revenge as delivering the message that you know… — Errol Morris Copy Share Image
All in Dali is indeed contrived, a brilliant illustration of his own psyche as he understands it, as opposed to how it… — Wendy Beckett Copy Share Image
Lately we have been getting facts pointing to the "oceanic" nature of the floor of so-called inland seas. Through geological investigations it… — Vladimir Belousov Copy Share Image
Christendom never came from an unbroken grave. It would have been buried in that grave, as Judas thought it was going to… — Richard Salter Storrs Copy Share Image
It is best not to have been born at all: but, if born, as quickly as possible to return whence one came. — Sophocles Copy Share Image
No one so poignantly realizes the failures in the social structure as the man at the bottom, who has been most directly… — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
This season has been full of rewards. The dinners and banquets just keep on coming. It's great. We want to carry it… — Andrew Jackson Copy Share Image
I read, I think, I play, I work. And all that thinkingand playing and reading comes into my art. I couldn't really… — Harvey Keitel Copy Share Image
One of the strengths of this country has been our diversity. One of the strengths of this country has been the fact… — Christine Todd Whitman Copy Share Image
I doubt if these two fine, active minds [President and Mrs. Roosevelt] have ever inquiried how it is they know what they… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
It has been remarked that when one passes among the patients of the psychiatric ward, he encounters among the several sufferers every… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
Moral values have been thrown out the window. Christianity is out the window. And that's wrong. Parents should be at home, teaching… — Albert Belle Copy Share Image
I have been accused of being a Pollyanna, but I think there are plenty of people dealing with the darker side of… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
I'm grateful that I feel the way that I do - to make choices based on a lot of people's feelings -… — Kelli O'Hara Copy Share Image
If true love were only about feelings, Jesus would have been hugged to death for our redemption. Thank God for His cross… — Mark Hart Copy Share Image
There is no doubt about it that it is more difficult for a woman to follow a career than for a man.… — Alice Hegan Rice Copy Share Image
Our young men in Vietnam have not only acquitted themselves in an outstanding manner during combat operations, but they also have been… — Lewis William Walt Copy Share Image
I'm sure that people who have been tweeting funny things have ended up on writing staffs of a late night show. — Dane Cook Copy Share Image
It's a tragedy that modernity has released this Ebola beast into the world. It renders humans untouchable, and that's sickening. The international… — Bob Geldof Copy Share Image
That's what I think my job in the world has been, is to sort of try to sit silently a bit and… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
I start with a comprehensive list of all the recent songs that have been big hits - and then I go down… — Al Yankovic Copy Share Image
A lot of work and money has been spent on astronomy and yet we have not found life. So we are rare,… — John Gummer Copy Share Image
To be rationally minded, the mental process of the intuitive appears to work backward. His conclusions are reached before his premises. This… — Frances G. Wickes Copy Share Image
In proportion to its power, Protestantism has been as persecuting as Catholicism. — William Edward Hartpole Lecky Copy Share Image
I do not agree that the dog in a manger has the final right to the manger even though he may have… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Today, the government of a free Afghanistan is fighting terror, Pakistan is capturing terrorist leaders, Saudi Arabia is making raids and arrests,… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
America's time, unfortunately, for judgment has come. In fact, the Honorable Elijah Muhammad taught us it's not just the judgment of America,… — Louis Farrakhan Copy Share Image
I am very grateful to our people who appreciate my work and for their support, as without that support it would have… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
The work that I have been doing on television has been important to me because I have had the opportunity to portray… — Amanda Schull Copy Share Image
I found everything so remote but, at the same time, familiar when I occasionally looked into the mountains, rocks, pine trees and… — Zhang Xiaogang Copy Share Image
Minnesota has been so good to me and so pleased that I love Minnesota. — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
I have never had any problems with editors who wanted me to change my methods or point of view. I pay a… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image