Too much of the world's happiness depends on taking from one to satisfy another. To increase my standard of living, someone in… — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
A biologist, if he wishes to know how many toes a cat has, does not "frame the hypothesis that the number of… — Anthony Standen Copy Share Image
Generally, I don't attempt to produce a certain number of words a day. The discipline is to work whether you are producing… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
We are very hip on the fact that America's always No. 1. On this we are not, in terms of the number… — Madeleine Albright Copy Share Image
The media didn’t hand it to Obama; after all, the Number One cable news channel, Fox, is right-wing. The Number One newspaper,… — Paul Begala Copy Share Image
Monopolies, oligarchy, the striving for domination and not for freedom, the exploitation of an increasing number of small or weak nations by… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
I live up in the hills, and I don't have any cable, and I have really slow satellite, so that does it… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
I was just in a few episodes the first season [ of Empire]. They didn't kill me, but I haven't been back… — Judd Nelson Copy Share Image
The genius of Republican liberty, seems to demand on one side, not only that all power should be derived from the people;… — James Madison Copy Share Image
But I really think it's a very unfortunate part of our judicial system and I would feel much, much better if more… — John Paul Stevens Copy Share Image
Simon remembered a rhyme his mother used to recite to him, about magpies. You were supposed to count them and say: one… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Truth may perhaps come to the price of a pearl, that showeth best by day; but it will not rise to the… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
In the summer after kindergarten, a friend introduced me to the joys of building plastic model airplanes and warships. By the fourth… — Steven Chu Copy Share Image
Pathology has made us acquainted with a great number of states in which the boundary lines between the ego and the external… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Where you have complexity, by nature you can have fraud and mistakes. You'll have more of that than in a company that… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
A number of revelators and UFO contactees have since mentioned to me that just before the appearance of an entity they were… — Brad Steiger Copy Share Image
All political arrangements, in that they have to bring a variety of widely-discordant interests into unity and harmony, necessarily occasion manifold collisions.… — Wilhelm von Humboldt Copy Share Image
An aria in an opera - Handel's 'Ombra mai fu,' for example - gets along with an incredibly small number of words… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
I'm going to be working the next 25 or 30 years. People like me, if we want, number one, for no benefit… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
I think there are very few invisible musical instrument players out there who can claim the chops and sheer perseverance of Björn… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
Like it or not - and often we don't - power is a pervasive phenomenon. From midnight decisions in the Oval Office… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
Their coverage on the Fox News Channel has been atrocious. The stuff that comes out of Sean Hannity's mouth has been infuriating.… — David Shuster Copy Share Image
For my part, I rather distrust men or concerns that rise up with the speed of rockets. Sudden rises are sometimes followed… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
The Da Vinci Code may well be the only novel ever written that begins with the word 'renowned'... I think what enabled… — Geoffrey K. Pullum Copy Share Image
[ Digital revolution ] only has allowed me to work faster, editing digitally, which I'm doing right now, a film on volcanoes.… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
I've played English a number of times, and used an English accent a number of times, so it becomes a little bit… — Johnny Depp Copy Share Image
I never said it. Honest. Oh, I said there are maybe 100 billion galaxies and 10 billion trillion stars. It's hard to… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
I refer the largest number of my clients to Payce Payroll because the specialize in the restaurant and contractors industries. I am… — Steve Melnyk Copy Share Image
Selfishness is when we pursue gain at the expense of others. But God doesn’t have a limited number of treasures to distribute.… — Randy Alcorn Copy Share Image
I could show fight on natural selection having done and doing more for the progress of civilization than you seem inclined to… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
What chiefly concerns and alarms many of us are the problems arising from religious fanaticism. As long as large numbers of militant… — Anthony Storr Copy Share Image
The edge of a painting is its frontier... where the artist negotiates his boundaries with the real world... where art begins and… — Andrew Graham-Dixon Copy Share Image
I believe the alphabet is no longer considered an essential piece of equipment for traveling through life. In my day it was… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
I'm really bad with trolls because I have a lot of really intense friends who are not necessarily doing things so legally.… — Margaret Cho Copy Share Image
Donald Trump didn't have much in the bank at all, to the tune of three-point-some-odd million dollars, whereas Hillary has something like… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Isolated facts and experiments have in themselves no value, however great their number may be. They only become valuable in a theoretical… — Hermann von Helmholtz Copy Share Image
This planet is not terra firma. It is a delicate flower and it must be cared for. It's lonely. It's small. It's… — Scott Carpenter Copy Share Image
Out of the total number of the persons designated for the execution, fifteen men were led in each case to the brink… — Paul Blobel Copy Share Image
Not all introductions worked well. Rabbits were an unmitigated environmental disaster. Unchecked by any natural predator, they bred at a staggering rate… — Bee Dawson Copy Share Image
This is a column collection, or as one colleague called it, "history in real time," recounting my perspective on the highs and… — Julianne Malveaux Copy Share Image