Albert Einstein when asked what he considered to be the most powerful force in the universe answered: Compound interest! What you have… — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
You want the president to be uninfluenced by any factors other than his advisers and the best interests of the United States.… — Kris Kobach Copy Share Image
What he's saying is that a Trump presidency will address those kind of things head on without caving into the special interests… — Chris Christie Copy Share Image
Over the years, I learned so much from mom. She taught me about the importance of home and history and family and… — Martha Stewart Copy Share Image
The faults of a writer of acknowledged excellence are more dangerous, because the influence of his example is more extensive; and the… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Since they all broke up the greatest conference in football, which was the Southwest Conference, I've had little interest in them any… — Gib Lewis Copy Share Image
Why it is that a garment which is honestly attractive in, say, 1910 should be honestly ridiculous a few years later and… — Margery Allingham Copy Share Image
Actually, voting in countries like Indonesia is unpatriotic, as it only legitimizes the regime, which serves foreign political and economic interests, as… — Andre Vltchek Copy Share Image
The spirit only can teach. Not any profane man, not any sensual, not any liar, not any slave can teach, but only… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
You have two parties that are funded by deep corporate interests, largely overlapping, that you begin to see a convergence. You have… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
Knowledge and productivity are like compound interest. The more you know, the more you learn; the more you learn, the more you… — Richard Hamming Copy Share Image
I'm not a fancy person. I love small spaces. I like tiny cars. I don't buy things, aside from music and books.… — Ellen Page Copy Share Image
Our system of government is one of checks and balances. It requires compromise.. compromise between the Executive and the Parliament, compromise between… — Peter Costello Copy Share Image
I think the difference between a lie and a story is that a story utilizes the trappings and appearance of truth for… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
(...) contemporary art has become a kind of alternative religion for atheists. (...) For many art world insiders and art aficionados of… — Sarah Thornton Copy Share Image
I think that people in the phase between being someone's kid and being someone's parent have always been uniquely narcissistic, but that… — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image
In my International Development Scheme, I propose that the profits of this industrial development should go first to pay the interest and… — Sun Yat-sen Copy Share Image
These international bankers and Rockefeller Standard Oil interests control the majority of newspapers and the columns of these papers to club into… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The optimist underestimates how difficult it is to achieve real change, believing that anything is possible and it's possible now. Only by… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
After all, if there is no class stratification in a society, it follows that there is no state, because the state arose… — Walter Rodney Copy Share Image
I like straightforward names for my characters. When I get too symbolic with names or places, I start feeling like the characters… — Tayari Jones Copy Share Image
I found that there is very little interest in Washington for true election reform. That neither the White House nor either house… — DeForest Soaries Copy Share Image
Southern Kordofan is not a disputed territory. It is, and will remain, in the north, where the Nuba Mountains are. People believe… — Rebecca Hamilton Copy Share Image
Patriotism should be sought for and will be found in right living. No man can be a good Latter-day Saint and not… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
There isn't a single person or landscape or subject which doesn't possess some interest, although it may not be immediately apparent. When… — Pierre-Auguste Renoir Copy Share Image
I happen to go for the simplest, most ordinary things. The extraordinary doesn't interest me. I'm not interested in psychotics. I'm interested… — John Hughes Copy Share Image
If you have a relative who's lost interest in everything and doesn't get out of bed, who doesn't care for things they… — Dick Cavett Copy Share Image
While in the course of ages the nucleus of social custom inscribed in law has been subjected to but slight and gradual… — Peter Kropotkin Copy Share Image
You know the way Washington works. Once you start floating ideas, they are immediately attacked by all the different interest groups before… — Judd Gregg Copy Share Image
Against individualism, the Fascist conception is for the State ... Liberalism denied the State in the interests of the particular individual; Fascism… — Benito Mussolini Copy Share Image
The smaller the society, the fewer probably will be the distinct parties and interests composing it; the fewer the distinct parties and… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Democracy is for infidels. A real Muslim is not a democrat because he doesn't care about the opinions of majorities and minorities… — Abdul Sattar Abu Risha Copy Share Image
In Utah alone, ten million acres are open for business. Their policy is not about the public or the public's best interest.… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
Families rely on financial services more than ever, but those who need them most - who struggle to make ends meet -… — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
Men keep their agreements when it is an advantage to both parties not to break them; and I shall so frame my… — Solon Copy Share Image
America's abundance was not created by public sacrifices to the common good, but by the productive genius of free men who pursued… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I got my interest in Lotte Lenya and the Brecht-Weill canon from my parents. And I love classical music - I got… — Marianne Faithfull Copy Share Image
I certainly wasn't a fan of Thatcher's politics. People liked to label us as children of Thatcher. What nonsense. The real children… — Gary Kemp Copy Share Image
Each season brings a world of enjoyment and interest in the watching of its unfolding, its gradual harmonious development, its culminating graces-and… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Roberto Calasso's survey of the renewed interest in myth demonstrates how decisive the gods' influence was on modern literature. Calasso is not… — Charles Simic Copy Share Image