So far as one can generalize, the most graciouis, cultivated, and innovative people in this country are French Canadians. Certainly they have… — Mordecai Richler Copy Share Image
We should probably start searching around a little earlier in our lives for what I call parallel activities, because most of us… — Darold Treffert Copy Share Image
What argufies pride and ambition? Soon or late death will take us in tow: Each bullet has got its commission, And when… — Porfirio Diaz Copy Share Image
Childhood is the one prison from which there's no escape, the one sentence from which there's no appeal. We all serve our… — P. D. James Copy Share Image
What is it that makes all of us end each day with the sense that we have not lived our time, but… — Jacob Needleman Copy Share Image
I have arrived at the conviction that the neglect by economists to discuss seriously what is really the crucial problem of our… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
Suffering breeds character. Character breeds faith. And in the end, faith will not disappoint. Faith, hope, and dreams will prevail... Our time… — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
As we give of our time, talents and resources to tend the needs of the sick, offer food to the hungry and… — Joseph B. Wirthlin Copy Share Image
Advertising tries to stimulate our sensuous desires, converting luxuries into necessities, but it only intensifies man's inner misery. The business world is… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
In the world of the present, in our time, we feel that suffering, anguish, the torments of body and soul, are greater… — Eyvind Johnson Copy Share Image
The poet has to make a synthesis out of the moral life of our time, and this life is lived at this… — Rose Macaulay Copy Share Image
A few hundred years ago, perhaps 85 or even 90 percent of humanity lived below a standard of living that today only… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
Now and then I become conscious of having the reputation of being one of the great drinkers, if not one of the… — Kingsley Amis Copy Share Image
It is a sign of our times, conspicuous to the coarsest observer, that many intelligent and religious persons withdraw themselves from the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Global warming may be a 'crisis,' even 'the most pressing environmental problem of our time.' ... Indeed, it may ultimately affect nearly… — John Roberts Copy Share Image
As a nation, this is the moment to start seriously investing our time, energy and resources into proven methods of reducing violence,… — Joaquin Phoenix Copy Share Image
Fortunately I don't want to be part of the mainstream. When I see a Kiki Smith work, for example, she's very contemporary,… — Luis Gonzalez Copy Share Image
The most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the imperatives of internationalism. — Earl Warren Copy Share Image
I believe our task is to develop a moral and aesthetic imagination deep enough and wide enough to encompass the contradictions of… — Richard Tarnas Copy Share Image
In the Soviet Union, government controls industry. In the United States, industry controls government. That is the principal structural difference between the… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
There's great disparity between who goes to college and who goes to jail. Who lives long and who dies prematurely, is the… — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
We must show new energy in fighting back an old evil. Nearly two centuries after the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade,… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
