The Conservative Party is not honouring the commitment to Lords reform and, as a result, part of our contract has now been… — Nick Clegg Copy Share Image
The people of the various provinces are strictly forbidden to have in their possession any swords, bows, spears, firearms or other types… — Toyotomi Hideyoshi Copy Share Image
There are only three things which make life worth living: to be writing a tolerably good book, to be in a dinner… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
[Flaubert] didn’t just hate the railway as such; he hated the way it flattered people with the illusion of progress. What was… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
Originally the dream was about traveling and developing a job that would permit me to travel. And I decided to go into… — Guy Laliberte Copy Share Image
The keys Elijah restored to Joseph Smith permit our hearts to be bound and each of us linked to those of our… — Richard G. Scott Copy Share Image
We must have constantly present in our minds the difference between independence and liberty. Liberty is a right of doing whatever the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Washington bureaucrats have classified the very air we exhale as a pollutant and have gone unchallenged in this incredible assertion. The logical… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
A missionary should never permit himself to see a movie or (read) cheap literature, or hear music that tends to interfere with… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
The cat dropped the rat between its two front paws. "There are those," it said with a sigh, in tones as smooth… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
A choice which confronts every one of us at every moment is this: Shall we permit our fellow men to know us… — Sidney Jourard Copy Share Image
It would degrade our country and our judicial system to permit our courts to be bullied, insulted and humiliated and the orderly… — Hugo Black Copy Share Image
Immigration and travel certainly don't mean the same thing everywhere. Here in Cuba, the big wall isn't just the fact that it's… — Fernando Perez Copy Share Image
It is easy enough to say, I do not believe in God. For God permits all things to be said of Him… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
It is not difficult to deceive the first time, for the deceived possesses no antibodies; unvaccinated by suspicion, she overlooks lateness, accepts… — John Updike Copy Share Image
It's a lot to ask of one creature, it's a lot to ask, that he should first behave as if he were… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
I say to Israel, the Lord will never permit me or any other man who stands as president of this Church to… — Wilford Woodruff Copy Share Image
We still find the greedy hand of government thrusting itself into every corner and crevice of industry and grasping at the spoil… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Coincidence obeys no laws and if it does we don't know what they are. Coincidence, if you'll permit me the simile, is… — Roberto Bolano Copy Share Image
The meaning of your life depends on which ideas you permit to use you. Who you think you are determines where you… — Gangaji Copy Share Image
Humility is essential to the acquiring of spiritual knowledge. To be humble is to be teachable. Humility permits you to be tutored… — Richard G. Scott Copy Share Image
The union miner cannot agree to the acceptance of a wage principle which will permit his annual earnings and his living standards… — John L. Lewis Copy Share Image
The middles cleave to euphemisms not just because they're an aid in avoiding facts. They like them also because they assist their… — Paul Fussell Copy Share Image
God gave us faculties for our use; each of them will receive its proper reward. Then do not let us try to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think the American people expect more from us than cries of indignation and attack. The times are too grave, the challenge… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Play is a subset of voluntary behaviour involving a selective mechanism which reverses the usual contingencies of power so as to permit… — Brian Sutton-Smith Copy Share Image
I am never a stranger anywhere I go, and it gives me the opportunity to choose my habitat by literally throwing a… — Dean Haglund Copy Share Image
I often find that people confuse inner peace with some sense of insensibility whenever something goes wrong. In such cases inner peace… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
What more fiendish proof of cosmic irresponsibility than a Nature which, having invented sex as a way to mix genes, then permits… — John Updike Copy Share Image
I am not willing to be drawn further into the toils. I cannot accede to the acceptance of gifts upon terms which… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
I do not want my house to be rounded by walls and my windows to be closed to other cultures. I wish… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Now an American president like [Ronald] Reagan wouldn't have a meeting, wouldn't have a summit. He'd give 'em a warning and then… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
I believe that reality is vastly richer than the cursory attention we usually give it permits us to understand. I like to… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
I've always thought that one of the things that the Internet and the gaming world permits as a narrative technique is to… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Pessimist by policy, optimist by temperament- it is possible to be both. How? By never taking an unnecessary chance and by minimizing… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
All my life I have made it a rule never to permit a religious man or woman take for granted that his… — Chapman Cohen Copy Share Image
A poem is a place where the conditions of beyondness and withinness are made palpable, where to imagine is to feel what… — Mark Strand Copy Share Image
The crucial thing is to arouse the awareness that as a matter of human conscience we can never permit the people of… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
The catch-all phrase "the war on terrorism", in all honesty, has no more meaning than if one wants to wage a war… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
Play permits the child to resolve in symbolic form unsolved problems of the past and to cope directly or symbolically with present… — Bruno Bettelheim Copy Share Image