I believe in friendly compromise. I said over in the Senate hearings that truth is the glue that holds government together. Compromise… — Gerald R. Ford Copy Share Image
Everything has two endings- a horse, a piece of string, a phone call. Before a life, air. And after. As silence is… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
I'm sick of hearing white liberals claim that if you call them out for their failed liberal programs, you're a racist. It… — Darryl Glenn Copy Share Image
I have no message to give the politicians of the world. They're all completely addicted to promiscuous verbalization and I'm quite sure… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
I have no more pleasure in hearing a man attempting wit and failing, than in seeing a man trying to leap over… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I see several animals that live so entire and perfect a life, some without sight, others without hearing: who knows whether to… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
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There is danger for the eye in seeing too clearly, danger for the ear in hearing too sharply and danger to the… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
Legends of the Silver Stallion had been told for years now, whenever mountain stockmen met round the campfires or on the winding… — Elyne Mitchell Copy Share Image
I can't imagine us saying these things to each other out loud. But even if I can't imagine hearing these words, I… — John Green Copy Share Image
At one time,' Golenishchev continued, either not observing or not willing to observe that both Anna and Vronsky wanted to speak, 'at… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Never mistake the uncomfortable feeling of insecurity and the fear of the unknown with the Holy Ghost’s promptings. Sometimes those feelings are… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
Avoid stock expressions (like the plague, as William Safire used to say) and repetitions. Don't say that as a boy your grandmother… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
What do you want?" Jace shrugged. "Clothes mostly, some weapons." Sebastion shook his head. "Too dangerous. We need to get in and… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
If you're a short-seller, that's a cacophony of negative reinforcement. You're basically told that you're wrong in every way imaginable every day.… — James Chanos Copy Share Image
To listen fully means to pay close attention to what is being said beneath the words. You listen not only to the… — Peter Senge Copy Share Image
You win the modern financial-regulation game by filing the most motions, attending the most hearings, giving the most money to the most… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
When you're working in the industry, and you're working with people who are well known and are so regarded, you do just… — Asa Butterfield Copy Share Image
I want to make sure that the Coast Guard people in Vietnam know that I am hearing about them often and that… — Wallace M. Greene Copy Share Image
Michael Winter’s fiction is a lot like hearing him talk about his life… harrowing in an after-the-fact hilarious way. Full of wonder… — Michael Crummey Copy Share Image
What motivates it is life. Life is everything. Life influences my music and brings it forth. Life is always changing, so I'm… — Lenny Kravitz Copy Share Image
From faith, hope, and love, the virtues of religion referring to God, there arises a double act which bears on the spiritual… — William Ames Copy Share Image
Beethoven was just music, and it didn't matter if he could hear it or not - he could feel it. He could… — Smokey Robinson Copy Share Image
I like hearing myself talk. It is one of my greatest pleasures. I often have long conversations all by myself. Sometimes I… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
At an early age, you started hearing it: It's a virtue to be "well-rounded." ... They might as well have said :… — Donald O. Clifton Copy Share Image
It evolved from my experience in the fifties, growing up during the McCarthy era, and hearing a lot of assumptions that America… — Warren Farrell Copy Share Image
The process was remarkably cathartic. I'd sit and listen to my father's voice - having not heard some of these tapes for… — Jennifer Grant Copy Share Image
I'm not really a knob-twiddler. I always work with an engineer; I'm not super hands-on when it comes to mixing boards and… — Danger Mouse Copy Share Image
I want to make it clear that I honestly answered every question put to me during the so-called Iran-Contra hearings. But if… — Oliver North Copy Share Image
When I had my confirmation hearing for the Court of Appeals, [my son] Philip was 3 years old. And when I was… — Samuel Alito Copy Share Image
The eyes and ears, seeing and hearing, are external plunderers; emotions, desires, and opinions are internal plunderers. But if the inner mind… — Zicheng Hong Copy Share Image
The term congressional hearing is an oxymoron. No congressional hearing is ever called to gather information. Rather, it is an exercise designed… — Jack McDevitt Copy Share Image
A tiny group of believers who have the gospel keep mumbling it over and over to themselves. Meanwhile, millions who have never… — K.P. Yohannan Copy Share Image
I tire so of hearing people say, Let things take their course. Tomorrow is another day. I do not need my freedom… — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
You should know that I've been hearing-impaired, not quite since birth, but I've been wearing hearing aids since I was 13, so… — Vint Cerf Copy Share Image
Nothing can burst your fatherly bubble faster than hearing your daughter come home from a date and saying: 'Some nights I don't… — David Henry Copy Share Image
I'm so happy that we're finally hearing the stories and voices of women who make America. We do what we see, not… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Healthy moms mean healthy families. When my Republican colleagues held a hearing about birth control and refused to include a single woman… — Carolyn Maloney Copy Share Image
The blessings we enjoy now are because we made the choice to follow the Savior before this life. To everyone hearing or… — Robert D. Hales Copy Share Image
We respect the role of the Senate. We respect the authority of the Senate to look at the qualifications of Judge Roberts,… — Alberto Gonzales Copy Share Image
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