The assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr., and Robert F. Kennedy led directly to the passage of a historic law, the Gun… — Jeffrey Toobin Copy Share Image
Afford every soul you encounter the wide and free passage they need to give birth to the dear expressions they feel are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Were I asked to define it, I should reply that archeology is that science which enables us to register and classify our… — Amelia B. Edwards Copy Share Image
New Year's eve is like every other night; there is no pause in the march of the universe, no breathless moment of… — Hamilton Wright Mabie Copy Share Image
The odd thing about tradition is, the longer it's been going, the more people seem to take it seriously - as though… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Conversion is in its essence a normal adolescent phenomenon, incidental to the passage from the child's small universe to the wider intellectual… — William James Copy Share Image
...the Bible itself is less read than preached, less interpreted than brandished. Increasingly, pastors may drape a limply bound Book over the… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
The poets and philosophers I once loved had it wrong. Death does not come to us all, nor does the passage of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are two principles inherent in the very nature of things, recurring in some particular embodiments whatever field we explore - the… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Alice Malloy had dark, stringy hair, and even her husband, who loved her more than he knew, was sometimes reminded by her… — John Cheever Copy Share Image
Time's passage through the memory is like molten glass that can be opaque or crystalize at any given moment at will: a… — Gloria Naylor Copy Share Image
Almost all great writers have as their motif, more or less disguised, the passage from childhood to maturity, the clash between the… — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
Except for our higher order of minds we are like the little moles under the earth carrying out blindly the work of… — Bess Streeter Aldrich Copy Share Image
I was as secretive - indeed, as furtive - as any conspirator. Discovery, we knew, simply must not happen, or else all… — Frank A. Vanderlip 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
[Tho]ugh death be a dark passage; it leads to immortality, and that is recompense enough for suffering of it. And yet faith… — William Penn Copy Share Image
For in a swift radiance of illumination he saw a glimpse of human struggle and valor. Of the endless fluid passage of… — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
I didn't really had a good answer, as so often -- is me. But then somebody sent me the other day, Isaiah… — Sarah Palin Copy Share Image
There is no more dramatic proof of the death of the Left than the passage of its central vision global democratic revolution… — Michael A. Ledeen Copy Share Image
Painting is the passage from the chaos of the emotions to the order of the possible. — Balthus Copy Share Image
Hundreds of passages point to a time of judgment for every person who has ever lived-none will escape. If you took all… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
Life would go out in a 'fraction of a second' (that was the phrase), but all night he had been realizing that… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
Writing makes a map, and there is something about a journey that begs to have its passage marked. — Christina Baldwin Copy Share Image
I am convinced that if the virtuosi could once find out a world in the moon, with a passage to it, our… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image