Two hundred years ago, our Founding Fathers gave us a democracy. It was based upon the simple, yet noble, idea that government… — Paul Tsongas Copy Share Image
Island of Hispaniola once so populous (having a population that I estimated to be more than three million), has now a population… — Bartolome de las Casas Copy Share Image
Defoe says that there were a hundred thousand country fellows in his time ready to fight to the death against popery, without… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
In a forest of a hundred thousand trees, no two leaves are alike. And no two journeys along the same path are… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
To expose a 4.2 Trillion dollar ripoff of the American people by the stockholders of the 1000 largest corporations over the last… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
What refuge is there for the victim who is oppressed with the feeling that there are a thousand new books he ought… — Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr Copy Share Image
Of the two hundred bones in the human body, more than a quarter are in the foot. It is a more complicated… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
It's fun as hell to fall and to not get something and then to finally land it. That's like pursuing a girl… — Lil Wayne Copy Share Image
I quoted David Hare one of his lines the other day to illuminate whatever point we were trying to make in the… — Bill Nighy Copy Share Image
If you just don't have any idea what you want to do, the worst thing you can do is go to law… — Tucker Max Copy Share Image
They've been screaming about the death of literacy for years, but I think TV is the Gutenberg [printing] press. I think TV… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
I'm Jewish... We're a very nervous group. Paranoid. Anxiety-ridden. Maybe that Hitler thing made us a little jumpy. Nothing like a Holocaust… — Andy Kindler Copy Share Image
I'll be the first to admit that my idea of God is pretty different. I believe in a God with a long… — Jack Handey Copy Share Image
Because of my comedic-influence growing up, Mel Brooks, Jim Carrey, Steve Martin… A lot of Jeff comedic-influences included Charlie Chaplin and physical… — J. Robert Spencer Copy Share Image
While women were tortured, drowned and burned by the thousands, scarce one wizard to a hundred was ever condemned ... The same… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
I am deeply gladdened that 1993 has been delcared the International Year of Indigenous Peoples by the United Nations. It is the… — Rigoberta Menchu Copy Share Image
Remember the words of Christ: "Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Saying goodbye to Nina is both bittersweet and beautiful. After six-plus years together, the entire cast and crew of The Vampire Diaries… — Julie Plec Copy Share Image
How can the mind take hold of such a country? Generations of invaders have tried, but they remain in exile. The important… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I am looking for friends. What does that mean -- tame?" "It is an act too often neglected," said the fox. "It… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
Here is one optimists reason for believing unity will prevail ... within the next hundred years ... nationhood as we know it… — Strobe Talbott Copy Share Image
Immigration along with nonwhite birthrates will make white people a minority totally vulnerable to the political, social, and economic will of blacks,… — David Duke Copy Share Image
I will find you," he whispered in my ear. "I promise. If I must endure two hundred years of purgatory, two hundred… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
Man designs for himself a garden with a hundred kinds of trees, a thousand kinds of flowers, a hundred kinds of fruit… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
If someone offered me a hundred million dollars to make a movie? I would first remind him that there are 850 million… — Lloyd Kaufman Copy Share Image
If you're not religious, then look at it this way. This world of ours is four thousand, six hundred million years old.… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
If you let go of me now,” I whispered, stretching against him, “it could be another six hundred years before you find… — Anne Fortier Copy Share Image
If people would dare to speak to one another unreservedly, there would be a good deal less sorrow in the world a… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
I’ve learned in a hundred ways that I rarely regretted acting but often regretted NOT acting fast enough. — Jack Welch Copy Share Image
I made the journey to knowledge like dogs who go for walks with their masters, a hundred times forward and backward over… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
It is true that at the time [1962] we had a strategic nuclear force of approximately five thousand warheads compared to the… — Robert McNamara Copy Share Image
At no time within the last five-hundred years can one point to a single instance of the Negro as a race of… — Marcus Garvey Copy Share Image
Heaven blazing into the head: Tragedy wrought to its uttermost. Though Hamlet rambles and Lear rages And all the drop-scenes drop at… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years. — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
Our constancy, same might call it our madness, was necessary to wear down the oppressive forces of the old democracy which, in… — Federica Montseny Copy Share Image
I'm a Catholic by background. I was raised in Goa, a part of India that was visited by Portuguese missionaries a few… — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
For four hundred years European civilization has dominated the world - for better or for worse. It is convenient, and flattering, for… — William Pfaff Copy Share Image
Haven't you done enough for a lifetime? Think about it—two power—crazed magicians killed, a hundred power—crazed magicians saved… — Jonathan Stroud Copy Share Image
One must do the same subject over again ten times, a hundred times. In art nothing must resemble an accident, not even… — Edgar Degas Copy Share Image
No artist knows in his own lifetime whether what he does will be the slightest good, because it takes at least seventy-five… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image