Seemed to me important in writing about people to be able to describe the sexual transactions between them. It's - for many… — John Updike Copy Share Image
Culture gives us each a sense that life has meaning and that we have value - by offering us assurances of immortality.… — Sheldon Solomon Copy Share Image
Never consider the possibility of failure; as long as you persist, you will be successful. — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image
The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination… — Norman L. Eisen Copy Share Image
Revolutionaries are rarely motivated primarily by material considerations-though the illusion that they are persists in the West. — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
Poverty arises and persists where corruption is endemic and enterprise is stifled, where basic fairness provided by the rule of law is… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
The global warming deniers persist in this air of unreality. After all, the entire north polar icecap, which has been there for… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
Governments, political parties, pressure groups, and the bureaucrats of the educational hierarchy think they can avoid the inevitable consequences of unsuitable measures… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
One should never permit a disorder to persist in order to avoid a war, for wars cannot be avoided and can only… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
If we don't move forward with regard to creating a non-racial society in South Africa and we allow this legacy of apartheid… — Thabo Mbeki Copy Share Image
You are capable of more than you know. Choose a goal that seems right for you and strive to be the best,… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
We come to love those we serve. If we choose to begin to serve the Master out of even a glimmer of… — Henry B. Eyring Copy Share Image
This decade is strewn with examples of bright people who thought they built a better mousetrap that could consistently extract abnormal returns… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
While the repression of a memory is a psychological process, the suppression of feeling is accomplished by deadening a part of the… — Alexander Lowen Copy Share Image
We can do better. ...We can't ignore the inequalities that persist in our justice system that undermine our most deeply held values… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
Rule Number One is this: If you’re open to learning, you get your life-lessons delivered as gently as the tickle of a… — Gay Hendricks Copy Share Image
It's pretty easy to decide to roll with the punches, to look at the enormity of natural disaster and choose to hunker… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
We're so used to having everything we want at our fingertips so I think that when things get tough it's difficult for… — John Legend Copy Share Image
When the memory of one's predecessors is buried, the assumption persists that there were none and each generation of women believes itself… — Joanna Russ Copy Share Image
The arguments for immortality, weak when you take them one by one, are no more cogent when you take them together... For… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
We invest in undervalued companies that exhibit strong fundamentals, above-market dividend yields and historic earnings growth, which our analysis indicates will persist.… — David Dreman Copy Share Image
If people persist in trespassing upon the grizzlies' territory, we must accept the fact that the grizzlies, from time to time, will… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
