In an imperfect world perfection is not instantly available. Railroad safety, for instance, cannot be secured by mechanical devices alone. It is… — Ivy Lee Copy Share Image
We need to keep examining evilness. For instance, I'm totally against the fact that Osama bin Laden was shot. I think that… — Niels Arden Oplev Copy Share Image
As a nation, we began by declaring that 'all men are created equal.' We now practically read it 'all men are created… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
A degree of culture, and assuredly a very high one, is attained when man rises above superstitions and religious notions and fears,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I can be collaborative, for instance, in situations where I go and study the artist's work before I start writing. Then I… — Warren Ellis Copy Share Image
I can easily believe it. Women of that class have great opportunities, and if they are intelligent may be well worth listening… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
The size thing is not some gimmick or attention-getting trick but a genuine undercurrent of the work. Frank Gehry for instance likes… — Michael Heizer Copy Share Image
A little wit and a great deal of ill-nature will furnish a man for satire; but the greatest instance of wit is… — John Tillotson Copy Share Image
We live in a culture that insists on "moving on" (even while our loyalty to and love of the franchise and the… — Laura Mullen Copy Share Image
Jazz is known all over the world as an American musical art form and that's it. No America, no jazz. I've seen… — Art Blakey Copy Share Image
In 2005... Mumbai, India, saw that country's most intense recorded instance of rainfall - 3 feet of rain in twenty-four hours. — Joseph J. Romm Copy Share Image
My plan to put Social Security in an ironclad lockbox has gotten a lot of attention recently, and I'm glad about that.… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
I think there's always a role for Congress under every instance in every administration to conduct oversight of the executive branch. — Paul Ryan Copy Share Image
I'll say this: I can't think of one instance in my 20 years in venture capital in which I have wanted to… — Douglas Leone Copy Share Image
Prayer is the supreme instance of the hidden character of the Christian life. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
If you accept learning as a dominant determination of your behavior, then all of a sudden you're open to the idea that,… — Greg Graffin Copy Share Image
Remember, this is back in the 1940s, and it was sculpture which probably - in my instance probably came out of the… — Warren MacKenzie Copy Share Image
'Digiphrenia' is really the experience of trying to exist in more than one incarnation of yourself at the same time. There's your… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
That the discovery of this great truth, which lies so near and obvious to the mind, should be attained to by the… — George Berkeley Copy Share Image
There's more to boxing than hitting. There's not getting hit, for instance. — George Foreman Copy Share Image
Without knowledge there can be no sure progress. Vice and barbarism are the inseparable companions of ignorance. Nor is it too much… — Charles Sumner Copy Share Image
If I hadn't spent a big chunk of time in academia I might not have the depth of consciousness I do about… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
As a nation we began by declaring that all me are created equal. We now practically read it, all men are created… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
there ought always to be a constitutional method of giving efficacy to constitutional provisions. What for instance would avail restrictions on the… — James Madison Copy Share Image
You can't learn to write in college. It's a very bad place for writers because the teachers always think they know more… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
