The much-maligned idle rich have received a bad rap: They have maintained their wealth while many There is scarcely an instance of… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I want to change things with everything I do, not for the sake of changing things, but for the sake of taking… — Jonathan Glazer Copy Share Image
Titles of property, for instance railway shares, may change hands every day, and their owner may make a profit by their sale… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
It is very seldom that any one is in prison for an ordinary crime unless early in life he entered a path… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
A lot of folks just get it in their head that, for instance, like writing memoirs is just easy. You just write… — Homer Hickam Copy Share Image
The gender prism is just descending upon us. For instance, when we're girls of nine or 10 we may be climbing trees… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
In this way, it seems to me that, since 1984, my book on the logistics of perception has been proved totally correct.… — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
I've seen that phenomenally successful people believe they can learn something from everybody. I call them 'mavericks with mentors.' Richard Branson, for… — Brendon Burchard Copy Share Image
Children have the strangest adventures without being troubled by them. For instance, they may remember to mention, a week after the event… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
With books, as with companions, it is of more consequence to know which to avoid, than which to choose; for good books… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
If my children do not behave according to Islam, if they do not pray for instance, I will punish them. — Abu Bakar Bashir Copy Share Image
Mohammed praises [instances of] tretchery, inhumanity, cruelty, revenge, and bigotry that are utterly incompatible with civilized society. — David Hume Copy Share Image
The sanctions and travel restrictions would have to be far more comprehensive to be truly painful for [Vladimir] Putin and his inner… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
The significance of a fact is relative to [the general body of scientific] knowledge. To say that a fact is significant in… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The clearer and deeper the public opinion of the world, in the first instance the opinion of the working masses, will understand… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
What I object to is the hyper-fetishized wedding day, the prioritizing of wedding over marriage. I have a real problem with couples… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
If you only knew, for instance, how much I enjoy being a grandmother! Do you know I'm twice a grandmother? Rajiv and… — Indira Gandhi Copy Share Image
I suppose what's happened recently has confirmed suspicions I voiced in the book, and I think made clearer some of those things… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
I'm just looking for the best story being told by the best people and the best part that I can find. If… — John Hawkes Copy Share Image
Faced with a new mutation in an organism, or a fundamental change in its living conditions, the biologist is frequently in no… — George Wald Copy Share Image
For instance, it is certain that women do not want a woman for President. Nor would they have the slightest confidence in… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The term "genocide" is often incorrectly assumed to mean extreme examples of mass murder associated with war, with the death of millions… — Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz Copy Share Image
There's no shame in somebody who doesn't necessarily do that job knowing a little bit more in that instance than you might… — Jake Gyllenhaal Copy Share Image
One writer, for instance, excels at a plan or a title page, another works away at the body of the book, and… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
The English also had a reputation, shared with the Dutch, for blowing up their ships to avoid capture. In 1611, for instance,… — Peter Earle Copy Share Image