Speech is highly elliptical. It would scarcely be endurable otherwise. Ellipsis is indispensable to the writer or speaker who wants to be… — Bergen Evans Copy Share Image
Fourier's theorem is not only one of the most beautiful results of modern analysis, but it may be said to furnish an… — Lord Kelvin Copy Share Image
Joint-stock companies are yet in their infancy, and incorporated capital, instead of being a thing which can be overturned, is a thing… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
We mustn't romanticize suffering. It can turn people bitter and hard, although it does seem to have been almost indispensable in making… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
I believe in corporations. They are indispensable instruments of our modern civilization. But I believe they should be so regulated that they… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Tis certain that Morality is an indispensable Requisite of true Religion, and there can be none without it. But it would become… — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
Meetings are a great trap. Soon you find yourself trying to get agreement and then the people who disagree come to think… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
A man's 'original and natural right' to make all contracts that are 'intrinsically obligatory,' and to coerce the fulfillment of them, is… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
Emotions can certainly be misleading: they can fool you into believing stuff that is definitely, demonstrably untrue. Yet emotions are also our… — Francis Spufford Copy Share Image
Hope is both the earliest and the most indispensable virtue inherent in the state of being alive. Others have called this deepest… — Erik Erikson Copy Share Image
In America, it is indispensable that every well wisher of true liberty should understand that acts of tyranny can only proceed from… — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image
They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom. Those who continually search for happiness will never find it.… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Time and experience have forcefully taught that the power to inspect dwelling places, either as a matter of systematic area-by-area search or,… — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
Generalization is necessary to the advancement of knowledge; but particularly is indispensable to the creations of the imagination. In proportion as men… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
I don't have a crystal ball, but if you can ever put yourself in a situation where you are indispensable - where… — Alexis Ohanian Copy Share Image
Deliver more than you are getting paid to do. The victory of success will be half won when you learn the secret… — Og Mandino Copy Share Image
Mathematics ... is indispensable as an intellectual technique. In many subjects, to think at all is to think like a mathematician. — Robert M. Hutchins Copy Share Image
In a democracy, the opposition is not only tolerated as constitutional, but must be maintained because it is indispensable. — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
As the safety and prosperity of nations ultimately and essentially depend on the protection and the blessing of Almighty God, and the… — John Adams Copy Share Image
How can I be an educator if I do not develop in myself a caring and loving attitude toward the student, which… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
The linchpin is an individual who can walk into chaos and create order, someone who can invent, connect, create, and make things… — Seth Copy Share Image
As to religion, I hold it to be the indispensable duty of all government to protect all conscientious professors thereof, and I… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
An indispensable tool is a pair of diagonal cutting Knipex pliers. There isn't any other hand tool of any other brand that… — Jamie Hyneman Copy Share Image
I should coldly, clinically think of myself and stop worrying about other people, as though I'm a necessary woman, indispensable to their… — Helen Van Slyke Copy Share Image
self-control, in every station and to every individual, is indispensable, if people would retain that equanimity of mind, which, depending on self-respect,… — Sarah Josepha Hale Copy Share Image
The United Nations is an indispensable but deeply flawed organization. It is valuable to the United States, and the United States is… — Richard Holbrooke Copy Share Image
The historian's first duties are sacrilege and the mocking of false gods. They are his indispensable instruments for establishing the truth. — Jules Michelet Copy Share Image
We're important, but not essential; valuable, but not indispensable. We have a part in the play, but we are not the main… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
It is a thing which every sensible American should learn from every sensible Englishman, that glare and glitter, gimcracks and gewgaws, are… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
By the deficiency or absence of one necessary constituent, all the others being present, the soil is rendered barren for all those… — Justus von Liebig Copy Share Image
Oh, Will Henry. After all we have been through, how could I send you away now, at our most critical hour? You… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
I say it is indispensable to look ahead of and behind oneself in the present. If there is such a thing as… — Robert Delaunay Copy Share Image
Thought that is silenced is always rebellious. Majorities, of course, are often mistaken. This is why the silencing of minorities is necessarily… — Alan Barth Copy Share Image
A presidential campaign may easily degenerate into a mere personal contest, and so lose its real dignity. There is no indispensable man. — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
I think the United States is still the indispensable force for positive change and for rule of law and for order and… — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
Raising the minimum wage a lot across the board would make a big difference. It's not the only thing, but it's an… — Nick Hanauer Copy Share Image
I have drawn my whole life. My parents were in the tapestry restoration business, and as a young girl, I would draw… — Louise Bourgeois Copy Share Image
An indispensable hypothesis, even though still far from being a guarantee of success, is however the pursuit of a specific aim, whose… — Max Planck Copy Share Image
When I first started writing, I had a very difficult time switching between projects, but now it's not only second-nature, it's indispensable:… — Marc Guggenheim Copy Share Image
Applaud us when we prevail, correct us when we fail; but, above all, do not let this indispensable, irreplaceable institution wither, languish… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
