Yet the arts of Severus cannot be justified by the most ample privileges of state reason. He promised only to betray; he… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
A generous friendship no cold medium knows, Burns with one love, with one resentment glows; One should our interests and our passions… — Homer Copy Share Image
It's a tribal state, and it always will be. Whether we like it or not, whenever we withdraw from Afghanistan, whether it's… — Jon Huntsman, Jr Copy Share Image
From the Anarchist standpoint, these artificial hindrances which are the cause of three main forms of usury-interest, profit, and rent, are, in… — Laurance Labadie Copy Share Image
There are two phases of enjoyment in journeying through an unknown country - the eager phase of wondering interest in every detail,… — Dervla Murphy Copy Share Image
To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching. To attain it we must be able to guess what will… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
What the Depression teaches us is that when the economy is so depressed that even a zero interest rate isn't low enough,… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
Self-interest is the most ingenious and persuasive of all the agents that deceive our consciences, while by means of it our unhappy… — William C. Bryant Copy Share Image
Wisdom and knowledge, as well as virtue, diffused generally among the body of the people being necessary for the preservation of their… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Women hock their jewels and their husbands' insurance policies to acquire an unaccustomed shade in hair or crêpe de chine. Why then… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
In Milly Barranger, Margaret Webster has found the perfect biographer. In Margaret Webster, Milly Barranger has found her perfect subject. She brings… — Marian Seldes Copy Share Image
It seems like the world is so fast to move its interest to someone else. When I think about filmmakers and actresses… — Dakota Johnson Copy Share Image
Today, the West is confronted by the powers that seek to test our will, undermine our confidence, and challenge our interests. To… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
Eisenhower had run the Army; he knew all the ways decision making can go off the rails, and insisted on collective debate… — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
I think that the influence of people with power and money to distort democracy and have their interests served before the rest… — Shepard Fairey Copy Share Image
It's really a situation [ Donald Trump's children are involved now in choosing the next government] that no other president had in… — Brian Ross Copy Share Image
Gatsby turned out all right at the end; it is what preyed on Gatsby, what foul dust floated in the wake of… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
The artist does not illustrate science; ... [but] he frequently responds to the same interests that a scientist does, and expresses by… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
I've always had a theory that whenever guys and gals start swinging, they begin to lose interest in conquering the world. They… — Frank Sinatra Copy Share Image
There are loads of sociopolitical, racial, class and future-planet situations that really interest me, but I'm not really interested in making a… — Neill Blomkamp Copy Share Image
Of course I think a 10-year investment would be in a team's best interest. Look at Cal Ripken Jr., that guy was… — Miguel Tejada Copy Share Image
The Clinton machine is at the center of this power structure. We've seen this first hand in the WikiLeaks documents, in which… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
A woman's body works as if it knew something she didn't, and does not have her best interests at heart. If you… — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
In politics, my dear fellow, you know, as well as I do, there are no men, but ideas — no feelings, but… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
I see two opposite tendencies in Turkish society: people feel demoralized, they lose the interest in politics and retreat to their private… — Elif Safak Copy Share Image
Land began to be seen as something to be owned privately and exploited for private interests, and never was entirely reconciled with… — Neil Abercrombie Copy Share Image
Why should I tell you where I am going to get funds from? If I were to do that then all the… — Lalu Prasad Yadav Copy Share Image
Trudeau has to defend Canadian interests and values. But he has to do it in a way that doesn't say that Trump… — Michael Kergin Copy Share Image
In a sense, the first (if not necessarily the prime) function of a novelist, of ANY artist, is to entertain. If the… — Brigid Brophy Copy Share Image
Our country is the world, our countrymen are all mankind. We love the land of our nativity, only as we love all… — William Lloyd Garrison Copy Share Image
In the national struggles of the proletarians of the different countries, they point out and bring to the front the common interest… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
I have a long-standing interest in what I like to think of as 'forbidden knowledge:' methods of unarmed killing, lock picking, breaking… — Barry Eisler Copy Share Image
I love acting but I don't like all of the other stuff associated with it. The interest in celebrities, the press, the… — Nicole Kidman Copy Share Image
It takes little or nothing to undo reputations, the merest trifle makes and remakes them, it is simply a question of finding… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
I mean, Hank Paulson is in there [ Treasury] at the wrong time, probably shouldn't have taken the job. He's a friend… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
But having made my decision as Commander-in-Chief based on what I am convinced is our national security interests, I will seek authorization… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Justice is a moral virtue, merely because it has that tendency to the good of mankind, and indeed is nothing but an… — David Hume Copy Share Image
The statesman must think in terms of the national interest, conceived as power among other powers. The popular mind, unaware of the… — Hans Morgenthau Copy Share Image
You know, Equal Interest played at the Bell Atlantic Jazz Festival Awards and not one musician from that category was even thought… — Joseph Jarman Copy Share Image
Our remnants of wilderness will yield bigger values to the nation's character and health than they will to its pocketbook, and to… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image