Efficiency in an assembly requires a solid mass of steady votes; and these are collected by a deferential attachment to particular men,… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
Please don't misunderstand, I actually enjoyed the hecticness and the opportunity to cover women's college basketball. But the reality is as a… — Doris Burke Copy Share Image
In this way, his unhappy soul struggled with its anguish. Eighteen hundred years before this unfortunate man, the mysterious Being, in whom… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Who is left in the ghetto is the one man in a thousand in any age, in any culture, who through some… — Leon Uris Copy Share Image
Any Democrat running is trying to get that Barack Obama coalition, which is an increasingly diverse voter base. It's young folks. It's… — Cory Booker Copy Share Image
How your heart can possibly find a way to love and trust a man again proves that I've fallen in love with… — Colleen Hoover Copy Share Image
[J]udges, therefore, should be always men of learning and experience in the laws, of exemplary morals, great patience, calmness, coolness, and attention.… — John Adams Copy Share Image
I have long had a tendency to tie marksmanship to morality. The essence of good marksmanship is self-control, and self-control is the… — Jeff Cooper Copy Share Image
I don't believe in Western morality, i.e., don't kill civilians or children, don't destroy holy sites, don't fight during the holiday seasons,… — Manis Friedman Copy Share Image
Gather yourself by the sea shore and I will love you there. Assemble yourself with wild things, with songs of the sparrow… — Jewel Copy Share Image
“Ethiopians imagine their gods as black and snub-nosed; Thracians blue-eyed and red-haired. But if horses or lions had hands, or could draw… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Then I will tell you something. I do not believe in it. Forty years among men has consistently taught me that they… — Bertolt Brecht Copy Share Image
Beauty in this Iron Age must turn, From fluid living rainbow shapes to torn, And sootened fragments, ashes in an urn, On… — Philip Jose Farmer Copy Share Image
I remembered my New Orleans days, living on two five-cent candy bars a day for weeks at a time in order to… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
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Baseball has traditionally possessed a wonderful lack of seriousness. The game's best player, Babe Ruth, was a Rabelaisian fat man, and its… — Thomas Boswell Copy Share Image
The present Hindu society is organised only for spiritual men, and hopelessly crushes out everybody else. Why? Where shall they go who… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
It was during those long and lonely years that my hunger for the freedom of our own people became a hunger for… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
He paused, twisting his goatee, considering the law in Deuteronomy that forbade clothes with mixed fibers. A problematic bit of Scripture. A… — Joe Hill Copy Share Image
Sirius's gaunt face broke out into the first true smile Harry had seen upon it. The difference it made was startling, as… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
To exact of every man who writes that he should say something new, would be to reduce authors to a small number;… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Now a writer can make himself a nice career while he is alive by espousing a political cause, working for it, making… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
If the cells and fibres in one human brain were all stretched out end to end, they would certainly reach to the… — Colin Blakemore Copy Share Image
The earth belongs to the living. No man can, by natural right, oblige the lands he occupied or the persons who succeed… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Love is like a tide. When it's in, everything looks beautiful and inviting. Only when love recedes can you see the debris… — Kathy Lette Copy Share Image
When the parish priest rebuked him for his celibacy, saying it would lead him into debaucheryand sin, hesaid that a man who… — Liam O'Flaherty Copy Share Image
My father died at 42, of a heart attack. My mother was 32 then. She never wanted to be a victim. And… — Sherry Lansing Copy Share Image
The physical powers of the body cannot be separated from the rationale of the mind and the emotions of the heart. They… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
[Demystifying lesbian sex for an interviewer] In a way, the sex isn't really that different... From what I can tell, no, not… — Jennifer Beals Copy Share Image
He who is only a traveler learns things at second-hand and by the halves, and is poor authority. We are most interested… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Archaeology, I found, comprehended all manner of excitement and achievement. Adventure is coupled with bookish toil. Romantic excursions go hand in hand… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When someone tells a man to be a man, they mean that there is a way to be a man. A man… — Jack Donovan Copy Share Image
Why is it kind of acceptable to say that the Germans are better at penalties, but not that blacks are better at… — David Baddiel Copy Share Image
The white man is too intelligent to let someone else come and gain control of the economy of his community. But you… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
When I sing, I think mostly about the music. But I know that, through singing, my body shows everything that I am.… — Andrea Bocelli Copy Share Image
Now Art, used collectively for painting, sculpture, architecture and music, is the mediatress between, and reconciler of, nature and man. It is,… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Girls are apt to imagine noble and enchanting and totally imaginary figures in their own minds; they have fanciful extravagant ideas about… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Thus the criminal ceases to be a person, a subject of rights and duties, and becomes merely an object on which society… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
When something is new and hard and bright, there ought to be something a little better for it than just being safe,… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
From my childhood it has been my conviction that men would reach the planets in my lifetime . . . this conviction… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image