I am responsible. Although I may not be able to prevent the worst from happening, I am responsible for my attitude toward… — Walter Inglis Anderson Copy Share Image
The first rule in politics is that there are no rules, at least not in the sense of inevitable defeats or inevitable… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
After your first day of cycling, one dream is inevitable. A memory of motion lingers in the muscles of your legs, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Hate's a growing thing like anything else. It's the inevitable outcome of forcing ideas onto life, of forcing one's deepest instincts; our… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
The history of governmentally established religion, both in England and in this country, showed that whenever government had allied itself with one… — Hugo Black Copy Share Image
Retiring from writing is not to retire from life, but retiring from writing is to avoid the inevitable bitterness which a writing… — Jim Crace Copy Share Image
Scientists - who prefer explanations subject to laboratory tests - figure that everything we see today was as inevitable as wrinkles, once… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
One cannot seperate truth from actions...Physically inevitable or not, truth stands above all things. It is independant of who has the best… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
According to Domino's head of marketing, whose job we are doing for her right now, quote, "it makes it easy for people… — Peter Sagal Copy Share Image
A wrong attitude towards nature implies, somewhere, a wrong attitude towards God, and that the consequence is an inevitable doom. For a… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
Everything I see about me is sowing the seeds of a revolution that is inevitable, though I shall not have the pleasure… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Some after-the-fact storytelling is inevitable, and, in fact, very good and useful. But then we want always to be able to enrich… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
One of the great sophistries of our age, I think, is that merely because one has an inclination to do something, that… — Lance B. Wickman Copy Share Image
The greatest dangers have their allurements, if the want of success is likely to be attended with a degree of glory. Middling… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Most economists, when modeling market behavior, tend to sweep major fluctuations under the rug and assume they are anomalies. What I have… — Benoit Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
Elizabeth’s entire body started to tremble as his lips began descending to hers. and she sought to forestall what her heart knew… — Judith McNaught Copy Share Image
Whereas Absurdism in Europe seemed a logical, almost inevitable response to the irrationality of war, the analogous elements that surfaced in American… — Arnold Aronson Copy Share Image
Life is too damn short and [screwed] up to go through it silently loving someone and never telling them how you feel.… — Janis Joplin Copy Share Image
The object, which is back of every true work of art, is the attainment of a state of being, a state of… — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
Wit is artificial; humor is natural. Wit is accidental; humor is inevitable. Wit is born of conscious effort; humor, of the allotted… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
It is not seen as insane when a fighter, under an attack that will inevitable lead to his death, chooses to take… — Emilie Autumn Copy Share Image
Happiness can’t be reduced to a few agreeable sensations. Rather, it is a way of being and of experiencing the world—a profound… — Matthieu Ricard Copy Share Image
Jill felt an emptiness open inside of her as she lifted her arm, a sense that something vital was being subtracted from… — Tom Perrotta Copy Share Image
Family organisation is broken and young animals are increasingly being denied a mother to turn to for comfort and for grooming. One… — Ruth Harrison Copy Share Image
To the frustrated, freedom from responsibility is more attractive than freedom from restraint. They are eager to barter their independence for relief… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Realizing the ways in which we humans may have been inadvertently changing our genes for millennia provides a way for us to… — Nicholas A. Christakis Copy Share Image
I took to writing at an early age to escape from meaninglessness, uselessness, unimportance, insignificance, poverty, enslavement, ill health, despair, madness, and… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
Instead of solving economic problems, government welfare socialism created monstrous moral and spiritual problems - the kind of problems that are inevitable… — Star Parker Copy Share Image
Life is a beautiful, magnificent thing, even to a jellyfish. ... The trouble is you won't fight. You've given up. But there's… — Charlie Chaplin Copy Share Image
The theologian may indulge the pleasing task of describing Religion as she descended from Heaven, arrayed in her native purity. A more… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I certainly don't think it's inevitable that we don't love children who don't carry our own DNA. If that were true we… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
They say that childhood forms us, that those early influences are the key to everything. Is the peace of the soul so… — Josephine Hart Copy Share Image
I am convinced that in the upcoming chapter of the struggle, I can be more useful to the inevitable change that will… — Lincoln Diaz-Balart Copy Share Image
The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerance. It… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Politics now is really only about self-interest, which means it has violence built into it because your self-interest is going to collide… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
Our country, we have faith to believe, is only at the beginning of its growth. Unless the forests of the United States… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
It's impossible to overstate the degree to which the '94 GOP revolution shook the political class. Bill Clinton was immediately dismissed as… — Steve Kornacki Copy Share Image
When the 2008 victory of Barack Obama and the defeat of grumpy old John McCain began looking, um, inevitable, I started fielding… — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
The road is a strange place. Shuffling along, I looked up and you were there walking across the grass toward my truck… — Robert James Waller Copy Share Image
I have reached a conclusion that when we have to make a choice between greater Israel or a Jewish democratic state -… — Ehud Olmert Copy Share Image