Oligopoly is an imperfect monopoly. Like the despotism of the Dual Monarchy, it is saved only by its incompetence. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
We read not only because we cannot know enough people, but because friendship is so vulnerable, so likely to diminish or disappear,… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
I know a few women younger than me who have careers and children, and so the burgeoning career and family happen at… — Debra Monroe Copy Share Image
Truth is always stranger than fiction. We craft fiction to match our sense of how things ought to be, but truth cannot… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Man is imperfect. The reality he creates is always endangered by man. — Friedrich Durrenmatt Copy Share Image
It may seem sometimes as if a culture of peace does not stand a chance against the culture of war, the culture… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
Let’s face it, we’re all imperfect and we’re going to fall short on occasion. But we must learn from failure and that… — John Wooden Copy Share Image
Democracy is an imperfect way of steering between the violence of anarchy and the violence of tyranny, with the least violence you… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
We are all wonderful, beautiful wrecks. That's what connects us-that we're all broken, all beautifully imperfect. — Emilio Estevez Copy Share Image
I feel history is more of a story than a lesson. I know this idea of presentism: this idea of constantly evoking… — Sarnath Banerjee Copy Share Image
Marshall's crime is to pretend to handle imperfect competition with tools only applicable to perfect competition. — Paul Samuelson Copy Share Image
My feelings are not God. God is God. My feelings do not define truth. God’s word defines truth. My feelings are echoes… — John Piper Copy Share Image
I don't think of Hillary Clinton as a bad choice. She's an uninspiring choice. She is a deeply imperfect choice, largely for… — George Packer Copy Share Image
The word dysfunction has, I think, served its purpose and now has lost its meaning. Every family, like every person, is imperfect,… — Susan Minot Copy Share Image
The interesting thing about advertising is that the things that annoy us sometimes about it are really human. It's us looking at… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
I rely on guns for protection in life. God does not say, 'This is la-la land.' God doesn't say, 'Welcome to Earth.… — Luke Scott Copy Share Image
We need to be willing to be uncomfortable, to be flawed, to be imperfect, to own our voice, to step into our… — Kerry Washington Copy Share Image
I think what's going on in Guantanamo Bay and other places is a disgrace to the U.S.A. I wouldn't say it's the… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
Free men and women... can think across time, viewing their own lives, inclusive of past, present, and future, as architectural wholes, static… — Robert Grudin Copy Share Image
Surely it's better to love others, however messy and imperfect the involvement, than to allow one's capacity for love to harden. — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
