Those of us forced to read the London papers sometimes speculate about which is greater: the average British hack's sloth, mendacity, ignorance,… — Larry King Copy Share Image
In a battle between force and an idea, the latter always prevails. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
No true Latter-day Saint and no true American can be a socialist or a communist or support programs leading in that direction.… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
The latest literary discussions reflect a struggle between two artistic methods - romanticism and realism, with the latter clearly ascendant for the… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
Vanity, indeed, is the very antidote to conceit; for while the former makes us all nerve to the opinion of others, the… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
A good education prepares a child to be a good employee and a good citizen-in that order, with the importance of the… — Cullen Hightower Copy Share Image
A pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. But if a blow were given for such cause, and death ensued,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I desire to go to Hell and not to Heaven. In the former I shall enjoy the company of popes, kings and… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
Either there is marriage as it is now defined and as defined by the Lord, or there is what could thus be… — Lance B. Wickman Copy Share Image
I don't endorse deism or interventionist theism. My point is just that evolutionary biology is logically compatible with the former and with… — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
As I have heard, since my arrival at this place, a circumstantial account of my death and dying speech, I take this… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Fetishes are literally viewed as fake forms of attraction. The fetish concept is used to delegitimatize attraction to any and all bodies… — Julia Serano Copy Share Image
Bargaining is a repulsive habit; compromise is one of the highest human virtues - the difference between the two being that the… — George Mikes Copy Share Image
Humility and suffering free a man from all sin; for the first cuts out spiritual passions, and the latter bodily. — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
We really have no choice but to pray and encourage a return to an America steeped in Judeo-Christian values. It is either… — Daniel Lapin Copy Share Image
Our worst fears, like our greatest hopes, are not outside our powers, and we can come in the end to triumph over… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
It seems to me that a Latter-day Saint parent has a responsibility in love and gentleness to affirm the teaching of the… — Dallin H. Oaks Copy Share Image
This will equally apply to every Latter-day Saint. Salvation is an individual operation. — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
Along with the lazy man... the dying man is the immoral man: the former, a subject that does not work; the latter,… — Michel de Certeau Copy Share Image
Opinions are formed in a process of open discussion and public debate, and where no opportunity for the forming of opinions exists,… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
The pediatrician must have thought me one of those neurotic mothers who craved distinction for her child but who in our civilization's… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
Some marriages break up, and some do not, and in our world you can usually explain the former better than the latter. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
These self-appointed deacons in the Church of Latter-Day American Literature seem to regard generosity (of words) with suspicion, texture with dislike, and… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
But in many orders of beauty, particularly those of the finer arts, it is requisite to employ much reasoning, in order to… — David Hume Copy Share Image
What is the cause that one is hardened, and another readily moved to compunction? Listen! It springs from the will, in the… — Symeon the New Theologian Copy Share Image