Originally, I was interested in athletic pursuits like snowboarding, martial arts and surfing. When I went to the Himalayas and met a… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You take a number of small steps which you believe are right, thinking maybe tomorrow somebody will treat this as a dangerous… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I felt betrayed by him, extremely betrayed. He made me believe that if I followed a certain protocol of supplements and different… — Kelli White Copy Share Image
She looks like a jumper to me. Jumpers do that a lot, stand on the edge and stare out. Never kill yourself… — Maureen Johnson Copy Share Image
As the number of available jobs has decreased in border states like Texas, cities halfway across America have begun to see an… — Spencer Bachus Copy Share Image
The usefulness of the models in constructing a testable theory of the process is severely limited by the quickly increasing number of… — Anatol Rapoport Copy Share Image
Let's go back to the beginning of the Obama administration, when Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama led NATO in toppling the government… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
We were masters of nature, masters of the world. We had forgotten everything--death, fatigue, our natural needs. Stronger than cold or hunger,… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
I was lucky enough to build on the work of a number of people who had already run laps around this theory-building… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
There are a number of ways you can find out if a restaurant is good or not: just the way it looks… — Robert Sietsema Copy Share Image
Most people put their childhood away as if it was an old hat. They forget it as if it was a phone… — Erich Kastner Copy Share Image
The measures adopted to restore public order are: First of all, the elimination of the so-called subversive elements. ... They were elements… — Benito Mussolini Copy Share Image
Every thing, even the so-called timesaving device and energy-efficient machine, comes these days with an elaborate set of instructions for its care… — Ellen Goodman Copy Share Image
Many of our tribe went to the cliff each night to count the number killed during the day. They counted the dead… — Scott O'Dell Copy Share Image
One wouldn't want to say that what makes a good writer is the number of books that the writer wrote because you… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
You must find some way to elevate your act of writing into an entertainment. Usually this means giving the reader an enjoyable… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
For far too long we have continued to mark our military prowess by the size of our forces: believing that numbers of… — Joe Sestak Copy Share Image
There is no quick fix for illegal immigration. But only when we achieve better control of our borders and better respect for… — Jan C. Ting Copy Share Image
My tunes and numbers are here. They have filled my years, the years when I refused to die. And in order to… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Maybe it's just my own chronic morbidity and melancholia, but I really do think about it a great deal and quite often… — Brian Sibley Copy Share Image
I can't tell you the number of times I've been in the middle of a perfunctory conversation, and someone will say, 'Tell… — Maria Semple Copy Share Image
That was unfortunate. I should have compared religion with religion and compared Islam not with Trinity College but with Jews, because the… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
…I hate myself for not being able to go downstairs naturally and seek comfort in numbers. I hate myself for having to… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
Pick up a pinecone and count the spiral rows of scales. You may find eight spirals winding up to the left and… — Stuart Kauffman Copy Share Image
I mean, of course that's a theoretical question, and we don't know what it would be for, and we don't know how… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
In the 1970s and 1980s there was so little decent fiction for young people, but we're now in a golden age that… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
Why is it that when men and women congregate, though the men may beat the women in numbers by ten to one,… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
People so far have been very fond of the Robert Altman movie, as I am, and when one things goes well it… — Bob Balaban Copy Share Image
I have a great record against anybody right now, so it doesn't really matter who I play in the final. I'll be… — Roger Federer Copy Share Image
You hear about bombings in other countries, or numbers like "10,000 people died" - you hear that number and you think, "Well,… — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
The number one thing in my opinion parents can do is be the way you would like your child to be. Don't… — John Assaraf Copy Share Image
When I was growing up in the mid-'50s, the Roaring Twenties were a huge part of the culture. There were a number… — Martin Scorsese Copy Share Image
I don't even have the plaques in my house - the gold and platinum-selling plaques. I gave them to my parents and… — Dennis Lloyd Copy Share Image
Even though probably the majority of homosexuals are not oriented towards young people, there is a significant number that are, especially the… — Scott Lively Copy Share Image
Life’s not a video game, Felix- there aren’t a certain number of points that send you to the next level. There isn’t… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
Any reasonable economist will tell you that it's nearly impossible to isolate the impact of right-to-work laws on a state's job growth.… — Eliot Spitzer Copy Share Image
Almost half of the Turkish population believes it is not legitimate to criticize the government. Interestingly, this correlates with the number of… — Elif Safak Copy Share Image
A votary of ahimsa cannot subscribe to the utilitarian formula (of the greatest good of the greatest number). He will strive for… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
According to the most trustworthy statistics the number of adult Dullards in the United States is but little short of thirty millions,… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
The whole music business in the United States is based on numbers, based on unit sales and not on quality. It's not… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
