You know just because the majority thinks something is right, doesn't make it right. So, that is up to us, the people… — Otep Shamaya Copy Share Image
I can't write story-songs, like I couldn't write a Bob Dylan or Tom Waits song. I can only write whatever weird phrases… — Jay Watson Copy Share Image
[Ognev] recalled endless, heated, purely Russian arguments, when the wranglers, spraying spittle and banging their fists on the table, fail to understand… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
For time not only moves inexorable forward, as the underlying grid to our personal chronicle, but is manipulated by our psychic needs… — Russell Sherman Copy Share Image
This is how great intellectual breakthroughs usually happen in practice. It is rarely the isolated genius having a eureka moment alone in… — Steven Johnson Copy Share Image
It is easy to use the phrase 'God's will for my life' as an excuse for inaction or even disobedience. ... My… — Francis Chan Copy Share Image
Some men's wit is like a dark lantern, which serves their own turn and guides them their own way, but is never… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
I need a little language such as lovers use, words of one syllable such as children speak when they come into the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Unaccountable private power concentrations that dominate economic and social life have the means to seek to "regiment the public mind," and become… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The most enduring of the false narratives is that the signature phrase of the early pontificate - "Who am I to judge?"… — George Weigel Copy Share Image
For proverbs are the pith, the proprieties, the proofs, the purities, the elegancies, as the commonest so the commendablest phrases of a… — John Florio Copy Share Image
There are those who regard this history of past strife and exile as better forgotten. But, to use the phrase of Yeats,… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
[Lost of the absolute] is in this sense that ''I no longer know what to do with my life" must be understood.… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
A phrase is born into the world both good and bad at the same time. The secret lies in a slight, an… — Isaac Babel Copy Share Image
Next to the word 'Nature,' 'the Great Chain of Being' was the sacred phrase of the eighteenth century, playing a part somewhat… — Arthur Oncken Lovejoy Copy Share Image
You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
[Political] prose consists less and less of words chosen for the sake of their meaning, and more and more of phrases tacked… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Phrases and their actual meanings: My teacher has never liked me. Expect a phone call before lunch from the teacher informing you… — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
I’ve chosen not to challenge the rule of law, because in our system there really is no intermediate step between a Supreme… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
They spoke very little of their mutual feeling; pretty phrases and warm expressions being probably unnecessary between such tried friends. — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
The theory of Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin is universally applicable. We should regard it not as a dogma, but as a… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
One of the deep fundamentals of poetry is the recurrence of sounds, syllables, words, phrases, lines, and stanzas. Repetition can be one… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
What pursuit is more elegant than that of collecting the ignominies of our nature and transfixing them for show, each on the… — Logan Pearsall Smith Copy Share Image
Older boys often asked me to teach them “some bad words in your language”. At first I politely refused. My refusal merely… — Firoozeh Dumas Copy Share Image