The Spartan, smiting and spurning the wretched Helot, moves our disgust. But the same Spartan, calmly dressing his hair, and uttering his… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
Novelists are perhaps the last people in the world to be entrusted with opinions. The nature of a novel is that it… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
For the last 20 months, I've just been going from one hospital to another. — June Carter Cash Copy Share Image
A rainbow which lasts for a quarter of an hour is looked at no longer. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The white men were roused by a mere instinct of self-preservation—until at last there had sprung into existence a great Ku Klux… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
Not out of those, on whom systems of education have exhausted their culture, comes the helpful giant to destroy the old or… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Some mathematics problems look simple, and you try them for a year or so, and then you try them for a hundred… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Bears are made of the same dust as we, and they breathe the same winds and drink of the same waters. A… — John Muir Copy Share Image
The prejudice of unfounded belief often degenerates into the prejudice of custom, and becomes at last rank hypocrisy. When men, from custom… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
It may be that a second wave of the sexual revolution might at last accomplish its aim of freeing half the race… — Kate Millett Copy Share Image
So I was very close to ordination. I was delighted to be ordained a deacon, which is the last step between, before… — Thomas Keneally Copy Share Image
The entire North Polar ice cap is disappearing before our very eyes. It's been the size of the continental United States for… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
I've never believed in the end of times. We are mankind. Our footprints are on the moon. When the last trumpet sounds… — Travis Beacham Copy Share Image
She had only to stand in the orchard, to put her hand on a little crab tree and look up at the… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
Music is my life. The last job I had, I was a bricklayer's apprentice. And I was happy with that job, too,… — Mark Wahlberg Copy Share Image
The peace we are offered is not a peace that is free from tragedy, illness, bankruptcy, divorce, depression, or heartache. It is… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
I'm a professional geologist, an explorationist for oil. That's what I've done in my career, one that's culminated in - at least… — Harold Hamm Copy Share Image
As far as I'm concerned there shouldn't be a single boot on the ground. There's enough American blood in Iraq that lasts… — Harry Reid Copy Share Image
And may at last my weary age Find out the peaceful hermitage, The hairy gown and mossy cell, Where I may sit… — John Milton Copy Share Image
We are on the brink of a new energy order. Over the next few decades, our reserves of oil will start to… — Fatih Birol Copy Share Image
I've been on lots of film sets. I've produced films and written films and been around, so it wasn't my first rodeo… — Dan Mazer Copy Share Image
