'Easter' is a movable event, calculated by the relative positions of sun and moon, an impossible way of fixing year by year… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
I am the very model of a modern Major-General, I've information vegetable, animal, and mineral, I know the kings of England, and… — W. S. Gilbert Copy Share Image
When we got organized as a country and we wrote a fairly radical Constitution with a radical Bill of Rights, giving a… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
The Crucifixion and other historical precedents notwithstanding, many of us still believe that outstanding goodness is a kind of armor, that virtue,… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
It [Hancock] happens to be a big budget film and big star like Will Smith, but it actually has a lot of… — Charlize Theron Copy Share Image
There is a thinking in primordial images, in symbols which are older than the historical man, which are inborn in him from… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The history of the building of the American nation may justly be described as a laboratory experiment in understanding and in solving… — Nicholas Murray Butler Copy Share Image
The Old Testament contains fabulous elements. The New Testament consists mostly of teaching, not of narrative at all: but where it is… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Most expositions of Aristotle's doctrines, when they have not been dictated by a spirit of virulent detraction, or unsympathetic indifference, have carefully… — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
In the face of the idea that truth might afford the opposite of satisfaction and turn out to be completely shocking to… — Max Horkheimer Copy Share Image
Within just a few years immigration as a share of national population is set to break all historical records. The time has… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
Within the next hundred years...nationhood as we know it will be obsolete; all states will recognize a single, global authority... National sovereignty… — Strobe Talbott Copy Share Image
Why do people resist [engines, bridges, and cities] so? They are symbols and products of the imagination, which is the force that… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
When it is impossible to stretch the very elastic threads of historical ratiocination any farther, when actions are clearly contrary to all… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The historical legacies of resistance to racism, militarism, privatization and panoptical surveillance have long been forgotten and made invisible in the current… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
In short, Europe’s colonization of Africa had nothing to do with differences between European and African peoples themselves, as white racists assume.… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. But they've got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go. Science is… — Timothy Leary Copy Share Image
You start with a generic body, but I think the first wall you hit with portraiture is comprised of history and storytelling… — Kiki Smith Copy Share Image
A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“If my brother, Dægan, was still alive to herald this moment, I know he would have something poetically moving to say. But… — Renee Vincent Copy Share Image
If you muster that courage to stand under fire and not go down, you will amass an inner strength that no one… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image