The problem is that the way [President] Bush has done it over the last eight years is to take out a credit… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Things like, people saying the new album would debut at number one on the Billboard Charts in the U.S. and I said,… — Marilyn Manson Copy Share Image
Our politics are being hijacked by a comparatively small number of people who seek to dominate the debate by screaming the loudest.… — John Avlon Copy Share Image
A considerable percentage of the people we meet on the street are people who are empty inside, that is, they are actually… — G. I. Gurdjieff Copy Share Image
I've been very lucky with the people I've met over the years. Way back in the early '70s I went to [Phil]… — Mike Royer Copy Share Image
Worship ought not to be construed in a utilitarian way. Its purpose is not to gain numbers nor for our church to… — Marva Dawn Copy Share Image
Since the idea that modification of synaptic function can provide a basis for memory arose shortly after the first anatomical description of… — Gerald Edelman Copy Share Image
The passengers and crew of United Airlines Flight 93, recognizing the potential danger that the aircraft they were aboard posed to large… — Arlen Specter Copy Share Image
When [Bill] Clinton came along, it sort of moderated a little bit, but Clinton had a different device for breaking unions called… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Some people give theirselves a certain number of white weeks once in a year, when they do not drink a single drop… — Henning Mankell Copy Share Image
Of course, there remains the question of why we should find mind-brain identities so persistently counter-intuitive, if they are true. But this… — David Papineau Copy Share Image
I know there are some people in Germany who become sick when they see these black uniforms, we understand the reason for… — Heinrich Himmler Copy Share Image
Much research in psychology has been more concerned with how large groups of people behave than about the particular ways in which… — Jean Piaget Copy Share Image
We are specifically keeping the best and brightest out. It is the dumb and dumbest that we are letting in. Let me… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
In France, at least the German occupation was not especially inhumane, even if there were a number of excesses - inevitable in… — Jean-Marie Le Pen Copy Share Image
We are accustomed to live in hopes of good weather, a good harvest, a nice love-affair, hopes of becoming rich or getting… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
I think people cast their votes for a number of reasons. I think if you look at your polls, you'll probably find… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
If it be taught that all who are born have a right to support on the land, whatever be their number, and… — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
Upon this point all speculative politicians will agree, that the happiness of society is the end of government, as all divines and… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Surely the mischief of hypocrisy can never be enough inveighed against. When religion is in request, it is the chief malady of… — Joseph Hall Copy Share Image
But the main point is that soldiers, after fighting for some time, are apt to be like burned-out cinders. They have shot… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
In living literature no person is a competent judge but of works written in his own language. I have expressed my opinion… — François-René de Chateaubriand Copy Share Image
The practical life of a vast number of people is not, as a matter of fact, worth while at all. It is… — Evelyn Underhill Copy Share Image
I am a reader. I am a writer. People assume I do these things to escape. You couldn't be more right. I'm… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
One may enter the literary parlor via just about any door, be it the prison door, the madhouse door, or the brothel… — Michael Ende Copy Share Image
The mistakes (of leaders) are amplified by the numbers who follow them without question. Charismatic leaders tend to build up followings, power… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
It is arguable whether the human race have been gainers by the march of science beyond the steam engine. Electricity opens a… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
While, on the one hand, the end of scientific investigation is the discovery of laws, on the other, science will have reached… — William Mitchinson Hicks Copy Share Image
While ants exist in just the right numbers for the rest of the living world, humans have become too numerous. If we… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Combinatorics is an honest subject. No adèles, no sigma-algebras. You count balls in a box, and you either have the right number… — Gian-Carlo Rota Copy Share Image
Since terrorists are pouring into Iraq in response to calls from international terrorist networks, the number of those who are killed is… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
In short, it is the greatest absurdity to suppose it in the power of one, or any number of men, at the… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
Do not dismayed daughters, at the number of things which you have to consider before setting out on this divine journey, which… — Teresa of Avila Copy Share Image
She had lived in that house fourteen years, and every year she had demanded of John that she be given a pet… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
The Intelligentsia (scientists apart) are losing all touch with, and all influence over, nearly the whole human race. Our most esteemed poets… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The number one piece of advice I would share is to recruit a mentor. Find someone you admire who is at least… — Bing Gordon Copy Share Image
Creating new people, by having babies, is so much a part of human life that it is rarely thought even to require… — David Benatar Copy Share Image
A quarter-horse jockey learns to think of a twenty-second race as if it were occurring across twenty minutes--in distinct parts, spaced in… — John McPhee Copy Share Image
The problem, of course, was that turning into a monster was the brighter of my two choices. Choice Number 1: I turn… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The ingenious method of expressing every possible number using a set of ten symbols (each symbol having a place value and an… — Pierre Simon De Laplace Copy Share Image