Jack was mid-jump when I burst into my room. I snatched his ankle,flipping him horizontal.He crashed down hard to my bed and… — Kiersten White Copy Share Image
In romantic comedies there's a certain ceiling and a floor that you can't necessarily love as hard, or hate as hard, or… — Matthew McConaughey Copy Share Image
You can imagine thistle-down so light that when you run after it your running motion would drive it away from you, and… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
In 1970, Americans spent about $6 billion on fast food; in 2000, they spent more than $110 billion. Americans now spend more… — Eric Schlosser Copy Share Image
Faith is precisely the paradox that the single individual as the single individual is higher than the universal, is justified before it,… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Some day you will read in the papers that D.L. Moody of East Northfield, is dead. Don't you believe a word of… — Dwight L. Moody Copy Share Image
The idea that when people see prices falling they will stop buying those cheaper goods or cheaper food does not make much… — Paul Volcker Copy Share Image
Whatever happens in Washington, Wall Street, Hollywood or Silicon Vally in the next ten years, it will be irrelevant if our families… — Oliver DeMille Copy Share Image
Sharp increases in the minimum wage rate are also inflationary. Frequently workers paid more than the minimum gauge their wages relative to… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
Our higher needs include making full use of our gifts, finding and fulfilling our calling, being loved and cherished just for ourselves,… — David Richo Copy Share Image
Keynesian modelling relies on marginal propensity to consume and marginal propensity to invest. The idea that if we give more money to… — Myron Scholes Copy Share Image
Infinite toil would not enable you to sweep away a mist; but by ascending a little, you may often look over it… — Arthur Helps Copy Share Image
...a student attains 'higher order thinking' when he no longer believes in right or wrong". "A large part of what we call… — Benjamin Bloom Copy Share Image
It requires a much higher degree of imagination to understand the electromagnetic field than to understand invisible angels. ... I speak of… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
You know that the population is of this planet is now ten times greater than it was in the ages preceding capitalism.;… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The true Christians are the true citizens, lofty of purpose, resolute in endeavor, ready for a hero's deeds, but never looking down… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I have observed several hundred salespeople who were taught to use deceptive practices like 'bait and switch' and encouraged to play negotiation… — Ron Willingham Copy Share Image
A strict observance of the written laws is doubtless one of the highest virtues of a good citizen, but it is not… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I believe in goal-setting. I don't care what it is. If you want to drop 10 pounds, increase your bench press, jump… — Larry Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
If the government were to invest that money in higher education and public services, these would be far better investments. But administrators… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Those who are guilty of the argumentum ad ignorantiam profess belief in something because its opposite cannot be proved ... In the… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
I sometimes wish I had been educated a Catholic, in order to unite the poetry of religion with its higher principles. Are… — James Fenimore Cooper Copy Share Image
What Music expresses is eternal, infinite, and ideal; she expresses not the passion, love, desire, of this or that individual in this… — Richard Wagner Copy Share Image
Universal empire is the prerogative of a writer. His concerns are with all mankind, and though he cannot command their obedience,he can… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
I know everything, you see,' the old voice wheedled. 'The beginning, the present, the end. Everything. You now, you see the past… — John Gardner Copy Share Image
Man is a stream whose source is hidden. Our being is descending into us from we know not whence. The most exact… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The higher amount you put into higher education, at the federal level particularly, the more the price of higher education rises. It's… — Bill Bennett Copy Share Image
At the beginning of this marvelous era it was natural to expect, and it was expected, that laborsaving inventions would lighten the… — Henry George Copy Share Image
America's skyscrapers were not built by public funds nor for a public purpose: they were built by the energy, initiative and wealth… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
At the time, I was in L.A., just auditioning and hoping to land a part, dramatic or comedic. I started to feel… — Nasim Pedrad Copy Share Image
Old age is the fourth stage. By the time one reaches this stage of his journey, he must have discovered that the… — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
A little consideration of what takes place around us every day would show us that a higher law than that of our… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The daily grinding of evolution, as accelerated by technology, churns out more and more complex organisms, with higher rates of energy use,… — Kevin Kelly Copy Share Image
What is termed Sin is an essential element of progress. Without it the world would stagnate, or grow old, or become colorless.… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Life on a lifeboat isn't much of a life. It is like an end game in chess, a game with a few… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
Il bel far niente means 'the beauty of doing nothing'... [it] has always been a cherished Italian ideal. The beauty of doing… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
The more serious poetry of the race has a philosophical structure of thought. It contains beliefs and conceptions in regard to the… — Joseph Alexander Leighton Copy Share Image
The doctrine of evolution implies the passage from the most organised to the least organised, or, in other terms, from the most… — John Hughlings Jackson Copy Share Image
Student loans have been helpful to many. But they offer neither incentive nor assistance to those students who, by reason of family… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Hillary Clinton and I have worked together on a higher education proposal which will guarantee free tuition in public colleges and universities… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image