Be the first to seize intersecting ground, that is ground which lies the intersections of borders or intersections of main thoroughfares of… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
Our house is burning and we look elsewhere. Nature, mutilated and over-exploited, can no longer reconstitute itself and we refuse to admit… — Jacques Chirac Copy Share Image
There is no worse mistake in public leadership than to hold out false hopes soon to be swept away. The British people… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Congress has turned its back on America's working families. There are Teamster families in every congressional district in America, and those families… — James P. Hoffa Copy Share Image
In the annals of American blunders, the Bay of Pigs may have been even more feckless, and the invasion of Iraq more… — George Will Copy Share Image
The ignorant and the deluded are, I think, in a strange way to be envied. That which is not known of does… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
Boredom is your window on the properties of time that one tends to ignore to the likely peril of one's mental equilibrium.… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
The newspaper is of necessity something of a monopoly, and its first duty is to shun the temptations of monopoly. Its primary… — C. P. Scott Copy Share Image
I've never owned an actual trail-running shoe myself, but maybe I should. My favorite paths are fraught with peril, much of it… — Don Kardong Copy Share Image
She was right that reality can be harsh and that you shut your eyes to it only at your peril because if… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
“Youth is like being carried through life by a strong current," Admiral Winter said. "All you feel is the speed of the… — Andrea Cremer Copy Share Image
All men live enveloped in whale-lines. All are born with halters round their necks; but it is only when caught in the… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“In History, stagnant waters, whether they be stagnant waters of custom or those of despotism, harbour no life; life is dependent on… — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
When the warrior returns, from the battle afar,To the home and the country he nobly defended,O! warm be the welcome to gladden… — Francis Scott Key Copy Share Image
Nothing is so important to man as his own state; nothing is so formidable to him as eternity. And thus it is… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
...the characters in my books all resemble each other. They live, with minor variations, the same moments, the same perils, and when… — Jean Genet Copy Share Image
If the conquest of a great peak brings moments of exultation and bliss, which in the monotonous, materialistic existence of modern times… — Lionel Terray Copy Share Image
Self-recognition is necessary to know one's road, but, knowing the road, the price of the mistakes and perils is worth paying. The… — Randolph Bourne Copy Share Image
If the self-discipline of the free cannot match the iron discipline of the mailed fist, in economic, political, scientific, and all the… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
A scholar like myself who is not a Sinologist and yet ventures the proposition that Chinese languages should be rewritten in the… — Eric A. Havelock Copy Share Image
At last, after almost fifty years in the hopper, the most famous unpublished novel in America is in print. Who Shot the… — Ed McClanahan Copy Share Image
I would prefer being in a hard battle; however, I will be satisfied with whatever happens to me in this war, if… — Knute Nelson Copy Share Image
I never thought very many people in the world were very much like John Laroche, but I realized more and more that… — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
The rule of no realm is mine. But all worthy things that are in peril as the world now stands, those are… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
Indeed we are all in peril if the flawed messenger invalidates the message. — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
A woman is at her greatest peril in the presence of a beautiful man. — Jed Rubenfeld Copy Share Image
All choices are fraught with peril, but inaction is the most perilous of all. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The idea came like a flash of lightning and in an instant the truth was revealed. — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
It is only if you happen to be a newscaster that the tongue-twister spells peril. — Craig Brown Copy Share Image
I have overlived the generation with which mutual labors & perils begat mutual confidence and influence. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
A love for tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The happiest youth, viewing his progress through, What perils past, what crosses to ensue, Would shut the book, and sit him down… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
You say that you are my judge; I do not know if you are; but take good heed not to judge me… — Joan of Arc Copy Share Image
Alack, there lies more peril in thine eye Than twenty of their swords: look thou but sweet, And I am proof against… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
When even one American - who has done nothing wrong - is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his… — Harry S Truman Copy Share Image
“I will tell you it is my neck you are putting in peril; for whatever is yours is, in a dearer and… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
UNDER THE STORM AND THE CLOUD TODAY, AND TODAY THE HARD PERIL AND PAIN - TOMORROW THE STONE WILL BE ROLLED AWAY,… — Joaquin Miller Copy Share Image
A splendid storehouse of integrity and freedom has been bequeathed to us by our forefathers. In this day of confusion, of peril… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
