Empires, essentially, create order. In their absence, you don't end up with lots of happy, little nation-states full of people sitting around… — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image
Our instinct as parents is to order our kids around — it's easier, and frankly, we're usually right. [But] reverse the waterfall… — Bruce Feiler Copy Share Image
A year ago I had a back injury and followed a good nutrition program to help speed up my recovery. I focused… — Sasha Cohen Copy Share Image
We thought being offered the M.B.E. [Member of the Order of the British Empire] was as funny as everybody else thought it… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
What we mean by maturity in people's thinking is not a matter of how smart they are, but it is a matter… — Robert Kegan Copy Share Image
Before you open the lunch menu or order that cheeseburger or consider eating the cake with the frosting intact, haul out the… — Caroline Knapp Copy Share Image
After I finished college, I got a job on Wall Street as a derivatives trader, but after a couple years of it,… — Philipp Meyer Copy Share Image
The reader might reflect that an awful lot of supposing has to take place in order for the quantity theory of money… — Paul Ormerod Copy Share Image
Religion forbids us from assuming a God-like character. This is especially true in politics and government, where limiting the power of the… — Abdolkarim Soroush Copy Share Image
One of the days we unpack finding out how your kids are wired, what kind of intelligence has God given them, how… — Stephen Kendrick Copy Share Image
I like England more than I did when I left. It's become a bit of a better country in the last ten… — Teddy Thompson Copy Share Image
What attracts me in photography is not so much a fine arts approach, but rather photographs as documents... All the ways in… — Zoe Leonard Copy Share Image
I know what it feels like to be hurt,and I don't want to cause that pain to any other person or creature.… — Alicia Silverstone Copy Share Image
The Christian is quite free to believe that there is a considerable amount of settled order and inevitable development in the universe.… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
For the Democrats, they're trying to avoid having the Sanders-Clinton debate over and over again. But, to some degree, they're sentenced to… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
...it was always our view that in order to attain this [proletarian revolution] and the other far more important aims of the… — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
But you have to have a vision of what kind of military you are trying to build in order to get the… — Jessica Mathews Copy Share Image
It is common for rural hospitals and nursing homes to operate as a single unit in order to take advantage of savings… — Rick Renzi Copy Share Image
Attraction eludes control so stubbornly that whole societies designed to organize relationships among people cannot keep order, not even when they bind… — Maxine Hong Kingston Copy Share Image
I've always juggled a lot of projects because at least half the projects you do get shelved. So you have to do… — Alan Menken Copy Share Image
When you create an economy where you subsidize corporate profits through a welfare program and food stamps in order to keep wages… — Martin O'Malley Copy Share Image
In a living civilization there is always an element of unrest, for sensitiveness to ideas means curiosity, adventure, change. Civilized order survives… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
We built this [socialistic] society not for the curbing of personal liberty, but in order that human personalities should really feel free. — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
I listened to Billie Holiday a lot in order to learn to sing. She remains one of the extraordinary jazz singers. But… — Madeleine Peyroux Copy Share Image
Man has not the right to turn aside and heed not what is happening in the world around him, and this I… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“What kind of heart does one have to have in order to be able to get rid of these, without regret, as… — Francesca Marciano Copy Share Image
I always say deafness is a silent disability: you can't see, and it's not life-threatening, so it has to touch your life… — Rachel Shenton Copy Share Image
"Superhero" is a term that's been borrowed in order to say "big and larger than life and loud and active and dumb."… — Kurt Busiek Copy Share Image
Family councils, led by righteous, loving parents who are striving to teach their children to love and respect each other, can make… — M. Russell Ballard Copy Share Image
mistakes are really not that big of a deal. in fact , as most of us acknowledge we need to make mistakes… — Richard Carlson Copy Share Image
And what would happen to my illusion that I am a force for order in the home if I wasn't married to… — Katharine Whitehorn Copy Share Image
We need to face the fact that we need more money in order to deliver Jeremy Hunt's absolutely correct drive to guarantee… — Michael Gove Copy Share Image
Because I withered under the glare of an actual invitation, I was a firm believer in preventive prevarication--in other words, lying early… — Rachel Cohn Copy Share Image
In order for life to be more than a frustrating game of one-upsmanship, one has to remain emotionally open and vulnerable. — Michael McDonald Copy Share Image
We can halt the destruction of the world's rainforests - and even restore parts of them - in order to ensure that… — Prince Charles Copy Share Image
Music is such an important element in creating the drama that a runway show needs in order to be memorable and to… — Mia Moretti Copy Share Image
When one is a child, the disposition of objects, tables and chairs and doors, seems part of the natural order: a house-move… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
When it becomes a bloody reality, we have to come together and look at what can be done to return to the… — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
In order to be an artist and an actor, like tackling the classics in the theater as well as film, there's lots… — Val Kilmer Copy Share Image
What a perversion of the normal order of things! ... to make power the primary and central object of the social system,… — James Madison Copy Share Image