Many of the problems the world faces today are the eventual result of short-term measures taken last century. — Jay Wright Forrester Copy Share Image
I started to learn Greek when I was in high school, the last year of high school, by accident, because my teacher… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
Obstreperous, ‘huh,” said Tad. “I see you’ve been using that Big Word of the Day calendar I got you last Christmas.” “That… — Patricia Briggs Copy Share Image
Your high points and your low points. High points don't last that long, it's a high and it happens. It's great at… — Ric Ocasek Copy Share Image
So for every day that you're on this earth, for every minute that you have, the whole idea is doing nothing less… — Ryan Tedder Copy Share Image
Over the last 10 years, there have been so many incredible albums created in bedrooms by people who never would've gotten an… — Bjork Copy Share Image
Now shut the engines off. Come down and flatten out, feel the long float, and at the given moment pull the stick… — Cecil Arthur Lewis Copy Share Image
I think what drove me away from being a reporter was an inability to accept that the world came in neat stories.… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
How dark it is before the dawn! In reality that was the beginning of my last debauch. I was soon to be… — Bill W Copy Share Image
We avoid sensuousness, only by resorting to simple negation. We come at last to define spirit by saying that it is not… — Albert Pike Copy Share Image
Remember, Jesus says: Those who are the last here will be the first in my kingdom of God. — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
I called gold the ultimate bubble, which means it may go higher. But it’s certainly not safe and it’s not going to… — George Soros Copy Share Image
I've always had to deal with being biracial, even in music. When I came on the scene, I'd go to these record… — Lenny Kravitz Copy Share Image
The last I checked, 'Titanic' worldwide has grossed $1.3 billion. Imagine how much more it would have grossed if I had gotten… — James Cameron Copy Share Image
Is it not wonderful, that the love of the parent should be so violent while it lasts and that it should last… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
I will never give up politics. I've tried to give it up three times, but I never made it. Politics mobilizes me.… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
Sometimes, to help someone you love, you have to commit a felony. But, you don't want to go to prison for that.… — Christopher Titus Copy Share Image
Mothers of young children, your work is most holy. You are fashioning the destinies of immortal souls. The powers folded up in… — J.R. Miller Copy Share Image
There was something terrible, but also something sad and melancholy in this long cry uttered by the Russian infantry as they staged… — Vasily Grossman Copy Share Image
You wish they understood, as you do, that there is no escape and never was, that from the moment two cells combined… — Ron Currie Jr Copy Share Image
My last son is leaving to go to college; my grandchildren are being born. My mother is living with me. — Sally Field Copy Share Image
I am an English major in school with an emphasis in creative writing. I think hearing Maya Angelou speak at school last… — Fred Savage Copy Share Image
The fact that in America bread lasts so long. You buy bread, and then it's bread forever - it's Forever Bread! — Paul Bettany Copy Share Image
When the last Puritan has disappeared from the earth, the man of science will take his place as a killjoy, and we… — Robert Staughton Lynd Copy Share Image
'Breaking Bad.' Because it's the best American narrative fiction of the last ten years. — David Benioff Copy Share Image
No louder shrieks to pitying heaven are cast, When husbands or lap-dogs breathe their last. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
To catch the real meaning of the Spirit of Christmas, we need only drop the last syllable, and it becomes the Spirit… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
I think the way the greens are, you need to be very accurate with your irons. Whether there's wind or not, the… — Luke Donald Copy Share Image
Throughout history, Allah has imposed upon the [Jews] people who would punish them for their corruption. The last punishment was carried out… — Yusuf al-Qaradawi Copy Share Image
I quit my last real job, as a writer at a magazine, when I was twenty-one. That was the moment when I… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
The last time I threw a punch was in primary school, and that was probably a slap. — Martin Compston Copy Share Image
Dancing is the last word in life. In dancing one draws nearer to oneself. — Jean Dubuffet Copy Share Image
Ohhhso hard to say, but George Harrison was pretty darn special. Such a great guybeautiful person and amazing songwriter/musician. A real honor… — Chuck Leavell Copy Share Image
My father chose my name , and my last name was chosen by my ancestors . That’s enough, I myself choose my way — Ali Shariati Copy Share Image
Many a life has been injured by the constant expectation of death. It is life we have to do with, not death.… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
For the last five or six years the most important thing in my life has been my family. — Jimmy Connors Copy Share Image
The grief of childhood is terrible while it lasts, it is so abandoned and so all-possessing. — Gertrude Atherton Copy Share Image