Conscience was the barmaid of the Victorian soul. Recognizing that human beings were fallible and that their failings, though regrettable, must be… — C. E. M. Joad Copy Share Image
Food is a subject of conversation more spiritually refreshing even than the weather, for the number of possible remarks about the weather… — A. A. Milne Copy Share Image
I can't count the number of people I've talked to over the course of my career who have said to me that… — Tavis Smiley Copy Share Image
Great is the art, Great be the manners, of the bard. He shall not his brain encumber With the coil of rhythm… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Making love with a woman and sleeping with a woman are two separate passions, not merely different but opposite. Love does not… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
A lot of musicians are good cooks, and a lot of cooks are musicians, but I think that may just be a… — Steve Albini Copy Share Image
I have written a book called 'In the Wonderland of Numbers.' It's about a young girl, Neha, who is very poor in… — Shakuntala Devi Copy Share Image
And so in my warnings, I was pointing to a number of incidents around the communion that could undermine our growing sense… — George Carey Copy Share Image
WikiLeaks does not publish from the jurisdiction of Ecuador, from this embassy or in the territory of Ecuador; we publish from France,… — Julian Assange Copy Share Image
The world of shapes, lines, curves, and solids is as varied as the world of numbers, and it is only our long-satisfied… — David Berlinski Copy Share Image
No other serial publications carry a number on them that is of any weight to their readership. The number is there to… — Tom Brevoort Copy Share Image
The fact is that viewers are fickle and it's rare that such a large group of people can be categorized in any… — Natalie Zea Copy Share Image
When you love a city and have explored it frequently on foot, your body, not to mention your soul, gets to know… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
A full scale nuclear exchange, lasting less than 60 minutes...could wipe out more than 300 million Americans, Europeans, and Russians, as well… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
How often should a woman be pregnant? Continually, or hardly ever? Or must there be a certain number of pregnancy anniversaries established… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
I soon began to dream. ... I heard subdued sobs, as if a number of people were weeping. ... I left my… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I think a lot of people get so obsessed with the wedding and the expense of the wedding that they miss out… — Jane Seymour Copy Share Image
Whereas painting is a more rarefied art form, with a limited audience, I recognized film as this extraordinary social tool that could… — Kathryn Bigelow Copy Share Image
There is a shortage of teachers but the January 2001 schools census showed that teacher numbers were at their highest level than… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you truly expect to realize your dreams, abandon the need for blanket approval. If conforming to everyone's expectations is the number… — Hope Solo Copy Share Image
The growth of property and the desire for its transmission to children was, in reality, the moving power which brought in monogamy… — Lewis Henry Morgan Copy Share Image
Not all, nor even a majority, are saved. . . They are indeed many, if regarded by themselves, but they are few… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Character is proportionate to N, the number of consecutive failures without being discouraged, or equivalently, the number of successive rejections without being… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Efforts to ease regulations and reform the nation's tax system have helped put this self-sustaining recovery on track, The numbers prove our… — Shinzo Abe Copy Share Image
The proud depend upon the world to tell them whether they have value or not. Their self-esteem is determined by where they… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
Our attitude toward cash generation and asset management came out of our own thought process. After we acquired a number of businesses… — Henry Earl Singleton Copy Share Image
I don't teach kids to be number 1. Organizations and people that tell you you have to be number 1; that's not… — Jim Brown Copy Share Image
The living together is very important in a way. It's important for writing. It wouldn't be important if we were like just… — Steve Winwood Copy Share Image
It was sad leaving the BBC; not quite like being divorced, but you don't leave after a period stretching from 1960 to… — Richie Benaud Copy Share Image
I hate it when, by page 30, I know what the lead's going to do and then what the bad guy's gonna… — Don Cheadle Copy Share Image
The human capacity for grief. It just isn't capable of providing an adequate emotional response once the dead exceed a few dozen… — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
A screenplay is really an instruction manual, and it can be interpreted in any number of ways. The casting, the choice of… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
Under President Barack Obama, the Congressional Hispanic Caucus has been invited into the White House and given a seat at the table.… — Charlie Gonzalez Copy Share Image
I figured out, I guess, that the job just makes me happy if it's not number one. So if it all works,… — Thomas Kretschmann Copy Share Image
Our economy today depends upon women in the labor force. One out of three workers is a woman. Today, there are almost… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Since there are a wide range of entrepreneurs fundraising at any given time, I looked at each opportunity as it has arisen… — Andy Murray Copy Share Image
My Yoga practice is number one, straight physical exercises are number two, and when I can do neither, I focus on the… — Leilani Bishop Copy Share Image
A pronoun, too, will aptly reflect the number of its antecedent: "they" does not refer to one person, no matter how many… — Karen Elizabeth Gordon Copy Share Image
Hello?... No I'm sorry no Shaquita here. Well what number did you dial?.. No it's a nine not a seven... Well try… — Katt Williams Copy Share Image
I wasn't writing stories with the intention of creating a particular collection. I simply wrote stories, and then discovered common themes among… — Bonnie Jo Campbell Copy Share Image
