A local spirit will infallibly prevail much more in the members of Congress than a national spirit will prevail in the legislatures… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Market bashers ... might understand the claim that in some particular field, markets required no intervention--though they'd be skeptical--but the notion that,… — Julian Sanchez Copy Share Image
For me, consciousness is the most interesting unsolved problem of science, and, in fact, we may never know what it is about… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
I think no one but me has the right to write about my life as I want to write it in a… — Preity Zinta Copy Share Image
Everything is destroyed by its own particular vice: the destructive power resides within. Rust destroys iron, moths destroy clothes, the worm eats… — Menander Copy Share Image
There is a world-old controversy that crops up whenever women attempt to enter a new field. Is a woman fit for that… — Ruth Bancroft Law Copy Share Image
And as to the Cares, they are chiefly what attend the bringing up of Children; and I would ask any Man who… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
As a pianist, our particular role is to enter a piece and its logic and create a particular interpretation from our understanding.… — Rafal Blechacz Copy Share Image
I'm the one who started spreading that particular factoid, about Bendis, Azz and me all being bald Brian's from Cleveland, just to… — Brian K. Vaughan Copy Share Image
I might've set out to write a particular song about a particular girl, but my experience will run out after four lines,… — Max Tundra Copy Share Image
I can't explain chemistry. I really can't. I haven't got a clue what it's all about. It just happens. It's like falling… — Elaine Stritch Copy Share Image
The practice of translation rests on two presuppositions. The first is that we are all different: we speak different tongues, and see… — David Bellos Copy Share Image
Anyone can dabble, but once you've made that commitment, your blood has that particular thing in it, and it's very hard for… — Bill Cosby Copy Share Image
I don't believe in any particular definition of the afterlife, but I do believe we're spiritual creatures and more than our biology… — Alan Ball Copy Share Image
I think the attractiveness of Buddhism is that it doesn't involve a belief in God. That appeals to a lot of people… — Ninian Smart Copy Share Image
My True Name is so well known in the Records, or Registers at Newgate, and in the Old-Baily, and there are some… — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
The religious cant that will send American troops into battle is perhaps the most sickening aspect of this surreal war-to-be. Bush has… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
A biography should be a dissection and demonstration of how a particular human being was made and worked. — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
I had no epiphany, no singular revelation, no moment of truth, but a steady accumulation of a thousand slights, a thousand indignities… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
A bank needs models to measure risk. The problem, however, is that any one bank can measure its risk, but it also… — Myron Scholes Copy Share Image
Success is about happiness and security, rather than hitting any particular sort of job or rung on the career ladder. — Suw Charman-Anderson Copy Share Image
I hold it a blasphemy to say that the Creator resides in a temple from which a particular class of His devotees… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
If I speak with a character’s voice it is because that character’s become so much part of me that … I think… — André Brink Copy Share Image
The job of being president, understanding the particular policies that America has gotten itself into over the past 400 years. — Kwame Kilpatrick Copy Share Image
I can't explain why one wants to pass a particular sort of pain onto other people, but you do. — Alexis Korner Copy Share Image
Enduring fame is promised only to those writers who can offer to successive generations a substance constantly renewed; for every generation arrives… — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
Law in general is human reason, inasmuch as it governs all the inhabitants of the earth: the political and civil laws of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Nothing (at least that can be done by humans) immortalizes anyone. The Fault in Our Stars will hopefully have a long and… — John Green Copy Share Image
In TV, and in particular in commercials, you don't really need to explain very much at all - you just say he's… — Rowan Atkinson Copy Share Image
God, the supreme being, is neither circumscribed by space, nor touched by time; he cannot be found in a particular direction, and… — Avicenna Copy Share Image
It's fantastic that Microsoft in the cloud space is one of very few companies that's got the critical mass, the particular emphasis… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
It is this idea 'decency' should be attached to wealth -and 'indecency'' to poverty - that forms the core of one strand… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Even in a minute instance, it is best to look first to the main tendencies of Nature. A particular flower may not… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Internationalism is a social and political theory, a certain concept of how human society ought to be organized, and in particular a… — Christian Lous Lange Copy Share Image
I will say overwhelmingly what means so much more to me than the opinion of one reviewer are the letters I get… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Claims of right and insistence upon obligations may depend upon treaty stipulations, or upon the rules of international law, or upon the… — Elihu Root Copy Share Image
An ideologue - one who thinks ideologically - can't lose. He can't lose because his answer, his interpretation and his attitude have… — James Burnham Copy Share Image
Mushrooms provide a vast array of potential medicinal compounds. Many mushrooms - such as portobello, oyster, reishi and maitake - are well-known… — Paul Stamets Copy Share Image
