One may disavow and disclaim vices that surprise us and whereto our passions transport us. But those which by long habit are… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
When you meet with opposition, even if it should be from your husband or your children, endeavor to overcome it by argument… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Experience tells us that few matches are won on the back of one or two good sessions of play. To win a… — Justin Langer Copy Share Image
As we look into the future, we are going to need to be stronger and more responsible for our choices in a… — James E. Faust Copy Share Image
The Western alliance should have supported the Sunni opposition against the Assad regime from the beginning. As far as Iraq is concerned,… — Paul Wolfowitz Copy Share Image
The ruling power is always faced with the question, ‘In such and such circumstances, what would you do?’, whereas the opposition is… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Contemplation is not and cannot be a function of this external self. There is an irreducible opposition between the deep transcendent self… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
I suppose politicians have always wanted to get re-elected, but there's a kind of a feeling now that if you just discredit… — George McGovern Copy Share Image
...tis a dangerous thing to ingage the authority of Scripture in disputes about the Natural World, in opposition to Reason; lest Time,… — Thomas Burnet Copy Share Image
When you look at golf films before us they're all - garbage or satire. A lot of sports films tend to vilify… — Shia LaBeouf Copy Share Image
I wish someone else would write a book that clearly and persuasively articulated why women's reproductive rights are so important to this… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
I know enough about Satan to realize that he will have all his weapons ready for determined opposition. He would be a… — James O. Fraser Copy Share Image
In the fight against ISIL, we cannot rely on an Assad regime that terrorizes its people; a regime that will never regain… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Truth, purity, and unselfishness wherever these are present, there is no power below or above the sun to crush the possessor thereof.… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I am confident that Assad's days are numbered. But what we can't do is to simply suggest that, as Governor Romney at… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Drafts of domestic legislation must be published, debated and publicly voted on, which gives ample opportunities to civil society organizations and ordinary… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
One of the best ways to improve men's behaviour is to enlighten their minds: and today, against the strong opposition of the… — Margaret E. Knight Copy Share Image
Commitment, by its nature, frees us from ourselves and, while it stands us in opposition to some, it joins us with others… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
There's always opposition when you speak on topics like I'm speaking on. But I'm a black man in America. I grew up… — Eric Reid Copy Share Image
There is no other way to settle the Syrian conflict other than by strengthening the existing legitimate government agencies, support them in… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
Everywhere the tendency has been to separate religion from morality, to set them in opposition even. But a religion without morality is… — Mark Hopkins Copy Share Image
We don't want to be prejudging outcomes here," she said of US opposition to scientific guidelines for rich nations to cut emissions… — Paula Dobriansky Copy Share Image
At a time when most movements that are thought to be progressive advocate further encroachments on individual liberty, those who cherish freedom… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
When you feel the world is against you or you give up hope, you look at your heroes and say, "They were… — John Leguizamo Copy Share Image
Saddam Hussein was a brutal tyrant. I am glad he is now on trial for crimes against humanity. But, opposition to a… — Peter DeFazio Copy Share Image
Unity of command is essential to the economy of time. Warfare in the field was like a siege: by directing all one's… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Those of us who have not had the experience of being invaded by the Germans are in no position to criticize those… — Michael Korda Copy Share Image
Everybody Moral courage is a virtue of higher cast and nobler origin than physical. It springs from a consciousness of virtue and… — Samuel Griswold Goodrich Copy Share Image
President Bush remained undeterred by the massive display of American opposition, even though much of it came from the hundreds of thousands… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
