The office of reformer of the superstitions of a nation, is ever more dangerous. Jesus had to work on the perilous confines… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Big sporting events and spectacles might give the national morale a shot in the arm, but they are too transient and taste-specific… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
I do think [Barack Obama's] strategy for re-election is so misguided. He's counting on the Republicans to self-destruct, and they might, you… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
If you'd never been born, then you might be an Isn't! An Isn't has no fun at all. No, he disn't. — Dr. Seuss Copy Share Image
One percent of people will always be honest and never steal," the locksmith said. "Another one percent will always be dishonest and… — Dan Ariely Copy Share Image
One reason why we fail to hear God speak is that we are not attentive. We suffer from what might be called… — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
The painter... will find [photography] a rapid way of making collections of studies he could otherwise obtain only with much time and… — Paul Delaroche Copy Share Image
He raised his eyes. "Sister. See. This time I knew you." Asha's heart skipped a beat. "Theon?" His lips skinned back in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are symbolic dreams-- dreams that symbolize some reality. Then there are symbolic realities -- realities that symbolize a dream. Symbols are… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
There are only two kinds of plans. Plans that might work and plans that won't work... you have to take a plan… — Wesley Clark Copy Share Image
With 'Fellow Travelers,' I think I was consciously trying to imagine what my own life as a gay man might have been… — Thomas Mallon Copy Share Image
Nothing is written in stone. So don't prepare yourself for a long and lucrative career. You might die tomorrow. Your gold holdings… — Yoko Ono Copy Share Image
We want to believe that the world is understandable and controllable and unthreatening, that if we follow the rules, we'll be okay.… — Gene Weingarten Copy Share Image
Everyone has a platform, so if we could just use that and combine what we have and know -we talk about it… — Kofi Siriboe Copy Share Image
How do I relax? This might sound slightly ridiculous but I play the ukulele for at least an hour a day and… — Frank Skinner Copy Share Image
With 'America's Next Top Model,' I've always cast girls who the industry might call 'plus size' but I like to call 'fiercely… — Tyra Banks Copy Share Image
You might be an interested guy, an interested reported then I get to know you and then I know you're this also… — Josh Brolin Copy Share Image
The horse is your mirror. He never flatters you. He reflects your temperament. He also reflects your ups and downs. Don’t ever… — Rudolf G. Binding Copy Share Image
What does it mean to say that government might have a responsibility? Government can't have a responsibility any more than the business… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
So you stick something up your ass, and you hope it might work, and it usually helps. — Doug Stanhope Copy Share Image
Without Easter, Good Friday would have no meaning. Without Easter, there would be no hope that suffering and abandonment might be tolerable.… — Hans Urs von Balthasar Copy Share Image
Yes - Action is the key! Cuz - when we take action we get a result - it might not always be… — David Ryan Copy Share Image
Wine was given us by God, not that we might be drunken, but that we might be sober. It is the best… — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
When I was working on my career, I was very aware of what I had done, what I wanted to do next.… — Kurt Russell Copy Share Image
...even the richest personality is nothing before he has chosen himself, and on the other hand even what one might call the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I might've been witty, but I didn't have a shtick. So, I never considered myself a comedian. — Scott Adsit Copy Share Image
Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships. — Sharon Stone Copy Share Image
The death agony of the barricade was about to begin.For, since the preceding evening, the two rows of houses in the Rue… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
We are not simply in the universe, we are part of it. We are born from it. One might even say we… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
You have people telling you how good you are and all of a sudden, you might start believing it and forget what… — Lou Lamoriello Copy Share Image
When we focus on the song of our soul and heart, then others will be touched similarly. Sometimes people wonder or worry… — Sark Copy Share Image
Life would go out in a 'fraction of a second' (that was the phrase), but all night he had been realizing that… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
I will not dissemble the first emotions of joy on the recovery of my freedom, and, perhaps, the establishment of my fame.… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
There is no logical basis to support the theory that plants feel pain. The dubious possibility that they might, however, is no… — Joanne Stepaniak Copy Share Image
Whatever your (unfavorable) situation is, it is a good idea to ask yourself "WHAT YOU WOULD DO if you were free of… — Seth Roberts Copy Share Image
One might have thought the world would stop ascribing moral equivalence between acts of terrorism and acts of punishing terrorism. It has… — Theodore Bikel Copy Share Image
I come back to what I had said earlier: the policies might be there but are people benefiting from the policies? You… — Thabo Mbeki Copy Share Image
As an African-American, as a woman, I think that I've been sensitized to the way in which history privileges the white male… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image