The Falklands held a mirror up to our own islands, and it reflected, in brilliantly sharp focus, all our injured belittlement, our… — Jonathan Raban Copy Share Image
It's the quality of the ordinary, the straight, the square, that accounts for the great stability and success of our nation. It's… — Gerald R. Ford Copy Share Image
I know very well what I am about and that my skies have not been neglected, though they often failed in execution… — John Constable Copy Share Image
Surely Scripture is right when it makes the sin of sins that unbelief, which is at bottom nothing else than a refusal… — Alexander MacLaren Copy Share Image
By not paying attention to your body, you are putting it in the same predicament as a neglected child. How can a… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
One of the challenges over the last decade is America has done experiments in nation building in places like Iraq and Afghanistan… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Although our grammar schools are teaching a whole generation computer language to adjust to the technological needs of a Stage II [post… — Warren Farrell Copy Share Image
Martin Luther described the doctrine of justification by faith as the article of faith that decides whether the church is standing or… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
One of my great surprises when I was in America was about twenty-five years ago in Harvard, hearing Randall Jarrell deliver a… — Stephen Spender Copy Share Image
... being perpetually charmed by his familiar siren, that is, by his geometry, he neglected to eat and drink and took no… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
'Anna Karenina.' I read it in college. I was so engrossed that I couldn't stop reading it and neglected all my other… — Jonathan Dee Copy Share Image
Of all the seasons, winter is the most conducive to the great art of dormancy. This art requires an appreciation of semi-consciousness:… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
I noticed a lot of guitar players neglected the rhythm part of rhythm guitar and decided I would try to focus in… — Hal Sparks Copy Share Image
Aristotle's opinion... that comets were nothing else than sublunary vapors or airy meteors... prevailed so far amongst the Greeks, that this sublimest… — Edmond Halley Copy Share Image
Because adoption meets the needs of children so successfully, and because there have long been waiting lists of couples hoping to adopt… — Mona Charen Copy Share Image
The Queen is frequently on her own, walking the dogs, riding her horses, playing patience, completing a jigsaw, sorting her photograph albums,… — Gyles Brandreth Copy Share Image
Riches are oft by guilt and baseness earn'd; Or dealt by chance to shield a lucky knave, Or throw a cruel sunshine… — John Armstrong Copy Share Image
A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them. They then dwell in the house… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Love exercised while duty is neglected will make children headstrong, willful, perverse, selfish, and disobedient. If stern duty is left to stand… — Ellen G. White Copy Share Image
The affluent society has built well in terms of economic progress, but has neglected the protection of the very water we drink… — Frank Church Copy Share Image
“The spirit is one of the most neglected parts of man by doctors and scientists around the world. Yet, it is as… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
What sort of tree is there which will not, if neglected, grow crooked and unfruitful; what but Will, if rightly ordered, prove… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
The basic idea of Western science is that you don't have to take into account the falling of a leaf on some… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
I've seen people talk about how they stopped polio, that was a generation that came together and said, "Let's do this." I… — Charlize Theron Copy Share Image
There is no idleness, by which we are so easily seduced, as that which dignifies itself by the appearance of business, and… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Alan Rocke's Image and Reality does so many things vividly and convincingly: it shows how visual images led chemistry step by step… — Roald Hoffmann Copy Share Image
Chélan had acted as imprudently for Julien as he had for himself. He had given him the habit of reasoning correctly, and… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
My chief time for reading is at night while brushing my hair before I go to bed, and as you may suppose,… — Fanny Kemble Copy Share Image
While the fictional realm as such allows for the obstacles of present-day politics to be altered, neglected, and negotiated at will, sci-fi… — Larissa Sansour Copy Share Image
Just let matters slide. How much better to accept each sweet drop of the honey that was Time, than to stoop to… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
However, it [singing] wasn't until halfway through high school that it dawned on me that singing wasn't just a hobby, it was… — Kina Grannis Copy Share Image
The state is now more involved than it ever has been in the raising of children. And children are now more neglected,… — Bob Dole Copy Share Image
Books are faithful repositories, which may be awhile neglected or forgotten; but when they are opened again, will again impart their instruction:… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Sven must have neglected to pay tribute to one of those strict Nordic gods. But instead of cursing Eriksson himself, Thor has… — Simon Barnes Copy Share Image
We submit to the society of those that can inform us, but we seek the society of those whom we can inform.… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
A lean cheek; which you have not: a blue eye, and sunken; which you have not: an unquestionable spirit; which you have… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
In the current setting the situation of the poor is neglected despite the grotesque wealth of the capitalist elites, and the dangers… — Richard A. Falk Copy Share Image
Time is never more misspent than while we declaim against the want of it; all our actions are then tinctured with peevishness.… — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann Copy Share Image
Public infrastructure around the world is facing unprecedented stress, with hurricanes, cyclones, floods and forest fires all increasing in frequency and intensity.… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
It was a very funny conference. I knew [Christopher Hitchens] before that. He had always been a good angel to me. He… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image