It is preposterous to suppose that the people of one generation can lay down the best and only rules of government for… — Ulysses S. Grant Copy Share Image
Such is the role of poetry. It unveils, in the strict sense of the word. It lays bare, under a light which… — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
But the star thing I can live with. The music I can't live without. And that's how it lays out for me,… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
I haven't seen Iowa people get so excited since the night Frank Gotch and Strangler Lewis lay on the mat for three… — Meredith Willson Copy Share Image
The unbosoming oneself to another is a kind of release to the soul, which strives to lighten its burden and find ease… — Francois Alexandre Frederic, duc de la Rochefoucauld-Liancourt Copy Share Image
We lay it down as a fundamental, that laws, to be just, must give a reciprocation of right; that, without this, they… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I don't have a set pattern. I take things as they come. Usually with a great amount of relish. I just lay… — Elizabeth Taylor Copy Share Image
I grew up in the country, which is probably why I'm so attached to the land. I love it. I love the… — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
I, for one, will be convinced that the Canada we know and love will be gone forever. But, then, Thucydides wrote that… — Pierre Trudeau Copy Share Image
There are some who, for varying reasons, would appease Red China. They are blind to history's clear lesson, for history teaches with… — Douglas MacArthur Copy Share Image
If the innocent honest Man must quietly quit all he has for Peace sake, to him who will lay violent hands upon… — John Locke Copy Share Image
For William Cecil and others in Elizabeth's Council, whose sense of Catholic conspiracy and threat governed their political thinking, England's security lay… — Susan Brigden Copy Share Image
The business of education has lay[ed] the foundations for nurseries of wise and good men, to adapt our modes of teaching to… — Benjamin Rush Copy Share Image
But then to part! to part when Time Has wreathed his tireless wing with flowers, And spread the richness of a clime… — Benjamin Copy Share Image
You can solo-climb Everest without using oxygen or you can pay guides and Sherpas to carry your loads, put ladders across crevasses,… — Yvon Chouinard Copy Share Image
Life is a building. It rises slowly, day by day throughout the years. Every new lesson we learn lays a block on… — J.R. Miller Copy Share Image
The problem is grasping the clock. So what do I do? Let it go, lay it aside - put it down gently… — Ajahn Sumedho Copy Share Image
If any one shall claim a power to lay and levy taxes on the people by his own authority and without such… — John Locke Copy Share Image
I'm one dude and when I make my bed I lay in it but don't stereotype me. Never sold a crumb to… — Rakim Copy Share Image
When man deploys the arbitrary nature of his madness, he confronts the dark necessity of the world; the animal that haunts his… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
As much as we Egyptians treasure our military, acting alone it cannot provide the legitimacy to lay the foundations for democracy. — Mohamed ElBaradei Copy Share Image
I try to stay incognito as much as I can. I don't go places that people would expect to see me because… — Mike Colter Copy Share Image
The chief philosophical value of physics is that it gives the mind something distinct to lay hold of, which, if you don't,… — James Clerk Maxwell Copy Share Image
Burma wants to have good relations with our neighboring countries, China and India. I do believe the United States itself wants to… — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
Let us close the springs of racial poison. Let us pray for wise and understanding hearts. Let us lay aside irrelevant differences… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
When you move the deeper levels in you and the deeper levels in your body, you'll be relating to that mystery in… — John de Ruiter Copy Share Image
Every satisfaction he attains lays the seeds of some new desire, so that there is no end to the wishes of each… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Like the advocates of Birth Control, the eugenists, for instance, are seeking to assist the race toward the elimination of the unfit.… — Margaret Sanger Copy Share Image
I pluck up the good lissome herbs of sentences by pruning, eat them by reading, digest them by musing, and lay them… — Elizabeth I Copy Share Image
The seriousness of ecological degradation lays bare the depth of man's moral crisis... Simplicity, moderation, and discipline as well as the spirit… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
There is no place like it, no place with an atom of its glory, pride, and exultancy. It lays its hand upon… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
We put things in order - God does the rest. Lay an iron bar east and west, it is not magnetized. Lay… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
The paradox of friendship is that it is both the strongest thing in the world and the most fragile. Wild horses cannot… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
A house should not be built so close to another that a chicken from one can lay an egg in the neighbor's… — Julius Nyerere Copy Share Image
Men to whom wine had brought death long before lay by springs of wine and drank still, too stupefied to know their… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
I know how irritating it is to have somebody else lay down rules for your moral uplift, but you've got to stand… — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
What has any poet to trust more than the feel of the thing? Theory concerns him only until he picks up his… — John Ciardi Copy Share Image
Here lay Cain's fatal mistake: "He was rejected, not because he was a sinner, but because, being a sinner, he had dared… — Charles Henry Mackintosh Copy Share Image
If the German people lay down their arms the whole of Eastern and Southern Europe, together with the Reich, will come under… — Joseph Goebbels Copy Share Image
With its claims to profundity, boldness and originality, thinking still limits itself provisionally to the exclusively rational and scientific. ... As soon… — Robert Musil Copy Share Image