The awful discretion, which a court of impeachments must necessarily have, to doom to honor or to infamy the most confidential and… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
For a very long time, and among a large number of peoples, political power has belonged to the owners of the land. — Vilfredo Pareto Copy Share Image
Years ago, you never concerned yourself with pitch counts. Now, with statistics telling you that between this number and that number bad… — Joe Torre Copy Share Image
Another myth we fed to the public through the media was that legalizing abortion would only mean that the abortions taking place… — Bernard Nathanson Copy Share Image
Success in life, in anything, depends upon the number of persons that one can make himself agreeable to. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
It's - as opposed to tape where you have a magnetic tape that's excited by frequencies that you hit, digital was a… — Herb Alpert Copy Share Image
For A to sit down and think, What shall I do? is commonplace; but to think what B ought to do is… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
With network, shows are pulled half the time after three episodes whether they're good or they're not good. It's a numbers game.… — Valerie Cruz Copy Share Image
No, the best way to stop a vehicle is to shoot the driver. And that you can do with a number of… — Chris Kyle Copy Share Image
I know a few CEOs who delegate the understanding of their financials and their business metrics to the CFO, and then stop… — Heidi Roizen Copy Share Image
I have a number of heroes I still have warm feelings about. [Derek] Shackleton, for instance, was definitely, and still is, one… — Edmund Hillary Copy Share Image
I don't get into 'becauses.' When you come into a studio you see a number of works. My habit is to go… — Clement Greenberg Copy Share Image
I certainly support the right of the gay brothers and sisters to come together. I believe true love can take a number… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
Statisticians tell us that people underestimate the sheer number of coincidences that are bound to happen in a world governed by chance. — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Playing in Wembley Stadium in front of 83-some-thousand fans to win a gold medal was unreal. I think, male or female, that… — Carli Lloyd Copy Share Image
The economic borderlines of our world will not be drawn between countries, but around Economic Domains. Along the twin paths of globalization… — John Naisbitt Copy Share Image
If a book I've committed myself to review turns out to be 'disappointing' I make an effort to present it objectively to… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
At first, man was enslaved by the gods. But he broke their chains. Then he was enslaved by the kings. But he… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Truths are immortal, my dear friend; they are immortal like God! What we call a falsity is like a fruit; it has… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
There are more reasons for people's actions than the number of actions that are actually set in motion. — Margaret Stohl Copy Share Image
There is, of course, great value in belonging to a group. Safety in numbers, for one. But there is also a mathematical… — Gregory Berns Copy Share Image
We are approaching levels - if we're not beyond levels - of threshold for the number of messages that consumers can take… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
You’re joining us for dinner, I hope?” asked his mom. She was small and brunette and vaguely mousy. “I guess?” I said.… — John Green Copy Share Image
Through and through the world is infested with quantity: To talk sense is to talk quantities. It is no use saying the… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Writing is a way of living. It doesn't quite matter that there are too many books for the number of readers in… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
A number of the pundits said well, if a couple of the other candidates drop out, if you add their scores together… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
True as this is, it is also true that for one who won through there were many who gained nothing, and it… — Ralph Adams Cram Copy Share Image
Bologna is the best city in Italy for food and has the least number of tourists. With its medieval beauty, it has… — Mario Batali Copy Share Image
I have been blessed to win a number of awards and be involved in numerous historical baseball moments over my 20-year career… — Steve Garvey Copy Share Image
...the number one reason knitters knit is because they are so smart that they need knitting to make boring things interesting. — Stephanie Pearl-McPhee Copy Share Image
If I found in my own ranks that a certain number of guys wanted to cut my throat, I'd make sure that… — Pierre Trudeau Copy Share Image
I don't think it's a lack of will. I think it's an issue of what people view as constitutional rights under the… — Rod Beckstrom Copy Share Image
It's one thing to wear jerseys at games, which fans have been doing in great numbers for 30 years, dressing as if… — Steve Rushin Copy Share Image
And pray what more can a reasonable man desire, in peaceful times, in ordinary noons, than a sufficient number of ears of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It is not of the essence of mathematics to be conversant with the ideas of number and quantity. — George Boole Copy Share Image
Records and numbers are important, but there's nothing better than a lot of people being happy through our music. — Jin Copy Share Image
Right now, there are a limited number of customers for Canadian oil. Due to simple geography - and without the pipeline -… — Ron Wyden Copy Share Image
Slavery as an institution that degraded man to a thing has never died out. In some periods of history it has flourished:… — Milton Meltzer Copy Share Image