What havoc has been made of books through every century of the Christian era? Where are fifty gospels, condemned as spurious by… — John Adams Copy Share Image
One reads the truer deeper facts of Reconstruction with a great despair. It is at once so simple and human, and yet… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I should be at peace. I have understood. Don't some say that peace comes when you understand? I have understood. I should… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
A century ago mainstream science was still quite happy to countenance vital and mental powers which had a 'downwards' causal influence on… — David Papineau Copy Share Image
But life cannot maintain itself alone. The Creator of life has entrusted us with the responsibility of preserving, developing, and perfecting it.… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
The Three Laws of Robotics: 1: A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
In order to understand, it is immensely important for the person who understands to be located outside the object of his or… — Mikhail Bakhtin Copy Share Image
I am in favor of deliberately spreading methodically prepared bacteria among people and animals -- mildew ... to destroy the harvests, anthrax… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Here was something I already knew to be true about myself: Just as there are some wives who will occasionally need a… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Most poverty and suffering - whether in a country, a family or a person - flows from disorganization. A stable social order… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
[We] are focused on protecting and defending our common security and upholding a rules-based order that undergirds the peace and prosperity of… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I care a great deal about LGBT U.S. servicemen and women being able to serve openly and honestly. Since early in my… — Suzanne Brockmann Copy Share Image
When the leaders speak of peace The common folk know That war is coming When the leaders curse war The mobilization order… — Bertolt Brecht Copy Share Image
My thesis is that what we call 'science' is differentiated from the older myths not by being something distinct from a myth,… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
It has taken a great deal of energy, which has not been so difficult to summon as the necessary patience to wait,… — Hart Crane Copy Share Image
One of the differences between HBO and other television is that they demand the same coverage that you would have in a… — Mark Addy Copy Share Image
A different [Ronald] Reagan-era authority: EO 12333, an executive order for foreign-intelligence collection, as opposed to the ones we now use domestically.… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
There is a saying that to understand is to forgive, but that is an error, so Papa used to say. You must… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
You know, we live in a country where if you want to go bomb somebody, there's remarkably little discussion about how much… — Andrew Bacevich Copy Share Image
Another guy barked orders to a small army of brooms, mops, and buckets that were scuttling around, cleaning up the city. "Like… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
And that was all the part of it - the way you were obliged to live. You stifled a groan, you lied… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
Sausage Party is my first animated film, and there's a doll of me. There's a doll of all the characters. There's a… — David Krumholtz Copy Share Image
No man (sic) has learned to live until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
“When we get our spiritual house in order, we'll be dead. This goes on. You arrive at enough certainty to be able… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“The Deliverator belongs to an elite order, a hallowed subcategory. He’s got esprit up to here. Right now, he is preparing to… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
For whatever reason, thus far it's been important to me not to write that kind of collection. Which means that I've spent… — Roy Kesey Copy Share Image
In effect, painting is the still memory of [the artist's] human motion, and our individual responses to it depend on who we… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
We are aware that the order of God requires the exercise of humility, but not of servility of slaves; but a humility… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We have before us the opportunity to forge for ourselves and for future generations a new world order, a world where the… — George H. W. Bush Copy Share Image
What does it mean to feel "in control" of your life? What I mean by control is the ability to make a… — Polly Young-Eisendrath Copy Share Image
In order for us to be able to love, we need to have faith, because faith is love in action and love… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
When we awake it is the animal, the plant, that thinks in us. Primitive thought without the least disguise. We see a… — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
The exertions that men find it necessary to make, in order to support themselves or families, frequently awaken faculties that might otherwise… — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
A successful shrimp boil requires layering ingredients into the pot so that everything is done cooking at once. A carefully timed choreography… — Samin Nosrat Copy Share Image
Turning on the television set can turn off the process that transforms children into people... It is primarily through observing, playing, and… — Urie Bronfenbrenner Copy Share Image
Life had a way of wrecking her careful plans, again and again. Roulette was more predictable than life. Small wonder she was… — Loretta Chase Copy Share Image
In order to bring a nation to support the burdens incident to maintaining great military establishments, it is necessary to create an… — John Foster Dulles Copy Share Image
I've been seeing the change. It's been steady. It's been more controlled than people think. And my own belief is that China… — Jeffrey R. Immelt Copy Share Image
The neccessity for making a living keeps our minds so bound down to the details of professional success that we sometimes forget… — Arthur Twining Hadley Copy Share Image
Love exercised while duty is neglected will make children headstrong, willful, perverse, selfish, and disobedient. If stern duty is left to stand… — Ellen G. White Copy Share Image