The idea of a rational bureaucracy, of skill, merit, and consistency, is essential to all modern states. — Bernard Crick Copy Share Image
Each project draws you in on its own merits as opposed to an intellectual choice of, "Well, I'm going to shift from… — Liz Garbus Copy Share Image
Marjan. I have told him tales of good women and bad women, strong women and weak women, shy women and bold women,… — Susan Fletcher Copy Share Image
It is true that the path of human destiny cannot but appal him who surveys a section of it. But he will… — Max Weber Copy Share Image
The dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music, and it has the additional merit of being human and palpable.… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
When someone is not playing well it's natural to want to make a change. I've just learned to drown out all the… — Scott Frost Copy Share Image
The distinctions of personal merit and influence, so conspicuous in a republic, so feeble and obscure under a monarchy, were abolished by… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
There is huge merit in both Eastern and Western medicine, and I've taken a little bit from both. — Ann Romney Copy Share Image
There should be, methinks, as little merit in loving a woman for her beauty as in loving a man for his prosperity;… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Modesty is to merit, what shade is to figures in a picture; it gives it strength and makes it stand out. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Audiences in every medium are becoming far more savvy. No one goes to watch a Tom Cruise movie any more just because… — Joe Dempsie Copy Share Image
I have rarely read anything which has interested me more, though I have not read as yet more than a quarter of… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
When liberals advocate a value-added tax, conservatives should respond: Taxing consumption has merits, so we will consider it - after the 16th… — George Will Copy Share Image
When the philosophers despised riches, it was because they had a mind to vindicate their own merit, and take revenge upon the… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
For some people, every door opens, and they meet just who they need to meet when they need to meet them, all… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
But if our sex would but well consider and rationally ponder, they will perceive and find that it is neither words nor… — Margaret Cavendish Copy Share Image
I don't sense that people are loving the adults the way they have learned to love kids, because the truth is, they're… — John Donvan Copy Share Image
There is a season for man's merit as well as for fruit. — Francois Duc De La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
If you enjoyed laughing in the face of death, you might like to have a crack at High Saffron. One hundred merits,… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
Amongst the sons of men how few are known Who dare be just to merit not their own. — Charles Churchill Copy Share Image
Sentimentalists ... adopt whatever merit is in good repute, and almost make it hateful with their praise. The warmer their expressions, the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It's possible to fund companies for $100,000 and find out rather quickly whether or not the idea they are pursuing has merit.… — Arvind Gupta Copy Share Image
Another merit of home is that it preserves the diversity between individuals. If we were all alike, it might be convenient for… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I no longer count as one of my merits that I always tell the truth as much as possible; it has become… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
