I am always suspicious of the formulation that "politics" has prevented a great idea from being enacted by government. Politics IS government,… — Nicholas Lemann Copy Share Image
The words represent ideas first of all. That is something you have to understand. I mean, it is not just an object,… — Robert Barry Copy Share Image
That great political idea, sanctifying freedom and consecrating it to God, teaching men to treasure the liberties of others as their own… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
If I deny the existence of a God - if I deny the idea of a gold paved city with pearly walls… — Etta Semple Copy Share Image
The "health, education, and welfare" section of government is another boondoggle. First we manufacture indigent and superfluous people by legal monopolies in… — Laurance Labadie Copy Share Image
When I first have an idea, I'll spit-ball it with my husband: he's my beautiful ideas sounding board. I usually have a… — Zoe Foster Blake Copy Share Image
The fundamental idea of these pylons, or great archways, is based on a method of construction peculiar to me, of which the… — Gustave Eiffel Copy Share Image
I remember, when I was in university I studied history, and there was this one major historian of the Third Reich, Ian… — Sacha Baron Cohen Copy Share Image
Auschwitz is outside of us, but it is all around us, in the air. The plague has died away, but the infection… — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
These, then, are the two points I wanted to make. First, that human beings, all over the earth, have this curious idea… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The idea that hardware on networks should just be caches for movable process descriptions and the processes themselves goes back quite a… — Alan Kay Copy Share Image
In art, and maybe just in general, the idea is to be able to be really comfortable with contradictory ideas. In other… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
The idea began to sink in, more than it ever had, that I might be crazy, in the traditional sense of the… — Marya Hornbacher Copy Share Image
Within our culture, every school has a swimming pool. We lived on the coast. People swam in the surf. It's a very… — Geoffrey Rush Copy Share Image
There used to be a joke that women need a reason to have sex, while men only need a place. Does policy… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
The problem with clichés is not that they contain false ideas, but rather that they are superficial articulations of very good ones...If...we… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
The master is within; meditation is meant to remove the ignorant idea that he is only outside. If he is a stranger… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
“at least nine-tenths of all the original reality ever created lies outside the multiverse, and since the multiverse by definition includes absolutely… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I started getting really curious about art. I read about the Dadaists and the Futurists and the Constructivists - those kind of… — Jeffrey Deitch Copy Share Image
There is something at the bottom of every new human thought, every thought of genius, or even every earnest thought that springs… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
An Athenian citizen does not neglect his state because he takes care of his own household; even those of us who are… — Pericles Copy Share Image
"It's better to give than to receive." Let me put this as elegantly as possible: "What a crock!" That statement is total… — T. Harv Eker Copy Share Image
I was drawn to all the wrong things: I liked to drink, I was lazy, I didn't have a god, politics, ideas,… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
The era I love most is the Federal period, just after the Revolution and the formation of the United States. The birth… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
Last year, when Zora was a freshman, sophomores had seemed altogether a different kind of human: so very definite in their tastes… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
In Nature nothing; is mean or contemptible, and it is only pride, originating in a false idea of our superiority, which causes… — Baron d'Holbach Copy Share Image
When I was younger I was much more polemical and didactic, much less trusting. Inherently my own vision of the world would… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
In my journey to becoming an artist who writes, I tend to start my idea process with simple, concrete messages that relate… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
It has seemed to me that literature, as I meant it, was embattled, that it was increasingly difficult to find writing doing… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
I mean, you know, this idea that somebody we disagree with on economic or social policy or something we have to turn… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
It's interesting to see what people who you find talented come up with, so you work with them. Sometimes ideas come along… — Charlyne Yi Copy Share Image
Directing doesn't appeal to me. I'm much more in the world of ideas. My husband is a director, and I understand what… — Melissa Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Being in New York for 10 days during the World Series and appearing on a bunch of shows, I felt like it… — Jessica Mendoza Copy Share Image
If this nation is to be wise as well as strong, if we are to achieve our destiny, then we need more… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Whenever you have a few setbacks, the idea that half as many children are dying now as back in 1990 and so...… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
I turn on the machines and start to think about ideas and take it from there, it usually begins if it's a… — Mick Harris Copy Share Image
The word entrepreneur is associated with success and adventure. From my life, the only thing I can tell you that's consistently associated… — Dean Kamen Copy Share Image
We tell ourselves stories in order to live...We look for the sermon in the suicide, for the social or moral lesson in… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
To most outsiders, modern mathematics is unknown territory. Its borders are protected by dense thickets of technical terms; its landscapes are a… — Ivars Peterson Copy Share Image
Jeremy had a plan for getting Clay back and I wasn't allowed to know anything about it or allowed to help him… — Kelley Armstrong Copy Share Image
