Over the last few years they have done a superb job in their fight against al-Qaida. As you may recall, our embassy… — David Petraeus Copy Share Image
Welcome to the psychiatric hotline: if you are obsessive compulsive press one repeatedly. If you are schizophrenic listen closely and a little… — Barbara Oakley Copy Share Image
The reason for writing that essay was less a personal agenda than an attempt to explain my unease with the general label… — Sasa Stanisic Copy Share Image
I remember that I felt I had to avoid all these sensational photos, the hanged woman, the man who shot himself, and… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
Everyone I talked to was a recording-the bank, the elevator, your office, the school, a wrong number. You used to be able… — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
Family has always been the number one priority no matter what happens anywhere else. — Gloria Estefan Copy Share Image
Such then in number and importance are the precious ties belonging to the Christian name which keep a believer in the Catholic… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
There are singers that I have enjoyed, from Nina Simone and Ray Charles onward. But the music that made music the number… — Robert Wyatt Copy Share Image
The standard of living of the common man is higher in those countries which have the greatest number of wealthy entrepreneurs. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The thing that makes my clothes really different is that, number one, they are really great designs; they're not tacky; they are… — Vivienne Westwood Copy Share Image
It's not the number of years that makes you old, but the idea that you are getting old. — Emile Coue Copy Share Image
I think What Dreams May Come is the most important (read effective) book I've written. It has caused a number of readers… — Richard Matheson Copy Share Image
We have the smallest navy since 1916, we have the lowest number of troops since the end of the Second World War.… — Mike Pence Copy Share Image
The pleasure we obtain from music comes from counting, but counting unconsciously. Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic. — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
The boundary between expert and amateur was an imposed social-cultural "protection" which actually exposed a number of women to a fatal disease,… — Laura Mullen Copy Share Image
I can't give you a specific number today, in large part because the analysis upon which we would make that determination has… — Tom Vilsack Copy Share Image
Aesthetics - rather than reason - shapes our thought processes. First comes aesthetics, then logic. 'Thinking in Numbers' is not about an… — Daniel Tammet Copy Share Image
When you get a checking account, you should have a savings account, and the number for the savings account should be one… — Dan Ariely Copy Share Image
The suggestion that petroleum might have arisen from some transformation of squashed fish or biological detritus is surely the silliest notion to… — Fred Hoyle Copy Share Image
The hostility perpetually exercised between one man and another, is caused by the desire of many for that which only few can… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
States strong enough to do good are but few. Their number would seem limited to three. — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
Anyone can die. Rule number one is don't get too attached to a character, anyone can go. — Jack Huston Copy Share Image
A permanent base on Mars would have a number of advantages beyond being a bonanza for planetary science and geology. If, as… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
Economic systems are not value-free columns of numbers based on rules of reason, but ways of expressing what varying societies believe is… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
I have had a number of patients with breast cancer, all of whom had root canals on the tooth related to the… — John Diamond Copy Share Image
