At an early age, you started hearing it: It's a virtue to be "well-rounded." ... They might as well have said :… — Donald O. Clifton Copy Share Image
Hemans gallows ought to be the fate of all such ambitious men who would involve their country in civil wars, and all… — Andrew Jackson Copy Share Image
Imagine a person with a gift of ridicule [He might say] First that a negative quantity has no logarithm; secondly that a… — Augustus De Morgan Copy Share Image
I see a broken shell and I remind myself that something might have needed setting free. See, broken things always have a… — Sara Pennypacker Copy Share Image
If there be ground for you to trust, as you do, in your own righteousness, then all that Christ did to purchase… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
To design things means to interfere with things: to think of how they might be and to alter how they are. Design… — Robert Bringhurst Copy Share Image
The moral truth here is obvious: anyone who feels that the interests of a blastocyst just might supersede the interests of a… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
I couldn't help but say to [Mr. Gorbachev], just think how easy his task and mine might be in these meetings that… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
When you're too robotic and scripted, the students tune you out. So I always tried to use different learning modalities - kinesthetic,… — Erin Gruwell Copy Share Image
The American people might have a criminal syndicate running their government. — Cynthia McKinney Copy Share Image
Archer was too intelligent to think that a young woman like Ellen Olenska would necessarily recoil from everything that reminded her of… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
The great bell of Beaulieu was ringing. Far away through the forest might be heard its musical clangor and swell. — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
The idea of stopping is not unmeaningful to me. I think there might be a time when, in theory at least, you'd… — Graham Swift Copy Share Image
We might make a public moan in the newspapers about the decay of conscience, but in private conversation, no matter what crimes… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
The detail in my work helps to convince me, and I hope others as well, that such places might be real, — Jan Brett Copy Share Image
Because if I hadn't been so afraid of everyone else, I might have told Hannah that someone cared. And Hannah might still… — Jay Asher Copy Share Image
I cannot tell and I shall never know how many words of mine might have given birth to cruelty in place of… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
We have arranged for ourselves a world in which we can live - by positing bodies, lines, planes, causes and effects, motion… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Kids should go to college, but they should go to the best school they can afford to get through with minimal or… — Mark Cuban Copy Share Image
Nearly all institutions, it might be said, are based on signs, but these signs do not directly evoke things. — Ferdinand de Saussure Copy Share Image
What would it mean in practice to eliminate all the 'negative people' from one's life [as demanded by motivational speaker J.P. Maroney]?… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
There is only one way by which the nations can be brought into unity and into peace and into brotherhood. This is… — Melvin J. Ballard Copy Share Image
So", says Jack at at last..."you broke up with Connor". Wow. So we're straight to the point. "So", I reply defiantly. "You… — Sophie Kinsella Copy Share Image
All the time. A few months ago I came really close to losing it, I was getting really paranoid. And then I… — Robert Pattinson Copy Share Image