....the globalization that characterizes today's economics goes beyond or eludes the sovereignty of individual states, and thus the power of their rulers.… — Patricio Aylwin Copy Share Image
I was taken in the Spirit to the burning bush on Mount Horeb, Moses' "first ascension," and allowed to witness the encounter… — Bob Hartley Copy Share Image
My mother was born in the city, my dad was an immigrant. Probably from Germany. Could have been Austria, could have been… — William Shatner Copy Share Image
With the perspective afforded by the passage of time, where does 9/11 rank as a turning point in our national history? For… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
There's a passage about 'rivers of molten rock that wound their way... until they cooled and lay like twisted dragon-shapes vomited from… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
The book [ A Passage to India ] shows signs of fatigue and disillusionment; but it has chapters of clear and triumphant… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
What is said in James 2:14 ff. is like a two-coupon train or bus ticket. One coupon says, "Not good if detached"… — Charles Caldwell Ryrie Copy Share Image
The overcoming of adversity and, ultimately, denying it the rite of passage, has been a constant and perpetual motive throughout my life. — Heather Mills Copy Share Image
Few of us go through life without taking part in some kind of rite of passage. — Hank Nuwer Copy Share Image
If the president is the head of the American body politic, Congress is its gastrointestinal tract. Its vast and convoluted inner workings… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
In matters that are so obscure and far beyond our vision, we find in Holy Scripture passages which can be interpreted in… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
God's Word is not presented in Scripture in the form of a theological system, but it admits of being stated in that… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
There should really not be anything gratuitous in a work of art. Sometimes what seems as if it's gratuitous may be a… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Nothing physical which sense-experience sets before our eyes, or which necessary demonstrations prove to us, ought to be called in question (much… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
The creative process is just a process and you can't really separate it from life. Growing your hair is a creative process.… — Antony Hegarty Copy Share Image
But he hated to be sober. It made him conscious of the people around him, of that air of struggle, of greedy… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Traveling through the Dragon's Den, it has just been explained that Haroun, the Ifrit, has been caught in a mirror trap. Here… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
A junkyard contains all the bits and pieces of a Boeing 747, dismembered and in disarray. A whirlwind happens to blow through… — Fred Hoyle Copy Share Image
You will find yourself among people. There is no help for this nor should you want it otherwise. The passages where no… — Paul Bowles Copy Share Image
The Christian view that all intercourse outside marriage is immoral was, as we see in the above passages from St. Paul, based… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Under various names, I have praised only you, rivers! You are milk and honey and love and death and dance. From a… — Czeslaw Milosz Copy Share Image
In the heart of every lawyer, worthy of the name, there burns a deep ambition so to bear himself that the profession… — John W. Davis Copy Share Image
To me, the lasting impression of any good wine is the thought of its maker. Those whose efforts transformed the fruits of… — Dave Chambers Copy Share Image
Lots of models have played mermaids throughout history and it is, kind of, a funny rite of passage. — Gemma Ward Copy Share Image
I find that the old Roman baths of this quarter, were found covered by an old burying ground, belonging to the Abbey;… — Tobias Smollett Copy Share Image