When I read of the vain discussions of the present day about the Virgin Birth and other old dogmas which belong to… — Olympia Brown Copy Share Image
War is the admission of defeat in the face of conflicting interests: by war the issue is left to chance, and the… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
Work without interest is imprisonment. Even if you aren't super-passionate about your work, you've got to at least be interested in it.… — Melchor Lim Copy Share Image
Passion, interest, or caprice, suggested daily motives for the dissolution of marriage; a word, a sign, a message, a letter, the mandate… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
A child, not knowing what is extraordinary and what is commonplace, usually lights midway between the two, finds interest in incidents adults… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
The first glance at History convinces us that the actions of men proceed from their needs, their passions, their characters and talents;… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
I am tired of the superficial smiles that adorn the many ghouls among us. I am tired of the righteous indignation that… — Corey Taylor Copy Share Image
There is a lack of interest in voting in the United States, and that troubles me. It is very necessary that people… — Rosa Parks Copy Share Image
Nations are like people. Once you understand the interactions between nations, it's easy to understand why things are done, in terms of… — Serj Tankian Copy Share Image
Today the strategies of many companies in the real estate industry are premised on low interest rates, an assumption that has resulted… — Akira Mori Copy Share Image
I've found him to be a disappointment. Wonderful speech in Egypt, and good intentions aside, foreign policy needs to be firmly grounded… — Munir Butt Copy Share Image
The librarian of today, and it will be true still more of the librarians of tomorrow, are not fiery dragons interposed between… — William Osler Copy Share Image
I remember I thought I should become a doctor, even though I had no talent for science whatsoever. Then of course, until… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Big money and big business, corporations and commerce, are again the undisputed overlords of politics and government. The White House, the Congress… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
There is all this stuff about how sensitive poets are and how in touch with feelings, etc. they are, but really all… — Matthew Zapruder Copy Share Image
Daily absorption in the physical actualities of nature is life as I need it to be: it means I am connected to… — Tilda Swinton Copy Share Image
The refunding of the national debt at a lower rate of interest should be accomplished without compelling the withdrawal of the national-bank… — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
As an artist, I move along in my life, into whatever things I'm doing, and I hear things where it's like, "Oh,… — Andy Summers Copy Share Image
I've heard people say South Africans are arrogant, that they act no differently from their colonial masters. That needs to change. It's… — Patrice Motsepe Copy Share Image
There is this looking at the world as shapes and patterns and colors that have meaning, and you can't deny the superficial… — Wolfgang Tillmans Copy Share Image
If you defy the system long enough you'll be rewarded. At first life takes revenge and reduces you to a sniveling mess.… — Jo Coudert Copy Share Image
The central banks cannot control interest rates. That's a mistake. They can control a particular rate, such as the Federal Funds rate,… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Central banks have gotten out of the central banking business and into the central planning business, meaning that they are devoted to… — James Grant Copy Share Image
I'm not qualified to do anything else. So there better be another job. I'm kind of stuck now. I'm enjoying my life… — Alfred Molina Copy Share Image
Men are less hesitant about harming someone who makes himself loved than one who makes himself feared because love is held together… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
I once drove a pair of horses from New York to Vicksburg, and to this day I can almost map out that… — Collis Potter Huntington Copy Share Image
The U.S. Senate does not allow legislative provisions to be included in appropriations bills, for much the same reason that most Americans… — Ron Wyden Copy Share Image
I came from product design originally - I had been designing dolls for a toy company since I was 16 - so… — Jason Wu Copy Share Image
Too often in the past, U.S. leaders have forced Israel to pay the price for American strategic interests in the Middle East… — Ron Silver Copy Share Image
There are two principles of established acceptance in morals; first, that self-interest is the mainspring of all of our actions, and secondly,… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
There are two equal and opposite errors into which our race can fall about the devils. One is to disbelieve in their… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The acceptance of corporatism causes us to deny and undermine the legitimacy of the individual as citizen in a democracy. The result… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
We will create life from inanimate compounds, and we will find life in space. But the life that should more immediately interest… — Nicholas A. Christakis Copy Share Image
If you can write (and don't kid yourself that you can, if you can't) and you have ideas that are commercially viable… — Joel McIver Copy Share Image
At the end of the day, Osama bin Laden's interest is not Washington and New York, it's the Middle East. He wants… — Robert Fisk Copy Share Image
And So, I Was Not A Military Test Pilot, But As Soon As NASA Expressed An Interest In Flying Scientists & People… — Story Musgrave Copy Share Image
Men spend their life down here in the worship of petty (or mean) interests and the search of perishable things, and with… — African Spir Copy Share Image
The work I do in challenging criminal sentences that appear to be too low is probably my most publicised 'public interest' function.… — Suella Braverman Copy Share Image
I'm from the '60s, but no one has ever accused me of being a hippie. I never had much interest in the… — Lloyd Kaufman Copy Share Image
What I want people to know is I went to Wall Street before the crash. I was the one saying you're going… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image