Infinites, when considered absolutely without any restriction or limitation, are neither equal nor unequal, nor have any certain proportion one to another,… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
There are a lot of young Canadians who want to be politically active at their college or their university who can't go… — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
Many do not understand how precarious Western civilization is and what a joy it is. From it, we get real democracy. From… — John Rhys-Davies Copy Share Image
In the desert, water gives life, while in the ocean an island stands to give anchor. Opposites are desirable and necessary. Once… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
Life balances itself on a precarious ledge, we can stay safe up high or propel off the edge. — Tarryn Fisher Copy Share Image
Man's survival, from the time of Adam and Eve until the invention of agriculture, must have been precarious because of his inability… — Norman Borlaug Copy Share Image
Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
In the wars against Revolutionary and Napoleonic France, as in so many later conflicts, British women seem to have been no more… — Linda Colley Copy Share Image
Let us consider, brethren, we are struggling for our best birthrights and inheritance, which being infringed, renders all our blessings precarious in… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
The simplicity and uniformity of rural occupations, and their incessant practice, preclude any anxieties and agitations of hope and fear, to which… — William Falconer Copy Share Image
In you, humanity is precarious; and so, in dread and in shame, you kill the animal in you. And its slaughter poisons… — Olaf Stapledon Copy Share Image
I will not dissemble the first emotions of joy on the recovery of my freedom, and, perhaps, the establishment of my fame.… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
A life of action and danger moderates the dread of death. It not only gives us fortitude to bear pain, but teaches… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
This is a hard and precarious world, where every mistake and infirmity must be paid for in full. — Clarence Day Copy Share Image
Hopes have precarious life. They are oft blighted, withered, snapped sheer off In vigorous growth and turned to rottenness. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
When each thought absorbs your attention completely, it means you identify with the voice in your head. Thought then becomes invested with… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The more experiences and experiments accumulate in the exploration of nature, the more precarious the theories become. But it is not always… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Whether we are aware of it or not, every act of trust carries with it a shiver of fear. A favorable situation… — Piero Ferrucci Copy Share Image
Do I wear a helmet? Ugh. I do when I'm riding through a precarious part of town, meaning Midtown traffic. But when… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
Trust to a plank, draw precarious breath, At most seven inches from the jaws of death. — Juvenal Copy Share Image
Liberalism regards life as an adventure in which we must take risks in new situation, in which there is no guarantee that… — Morris Raphael Cohen Copy Share Image
The grounds on which golf is played are called links, being the barren sandy soil from which the sea has retired in… — Charles Walter Simpson Copy Share Image
Acting is a precarious business. I have had periods where I felt like I couldn't get arrested, but you have to see… — Ewen Bremner Copy Share Image
The international monetary order is more precarious by far today than it was in 1929. Then, gold was international money, incorruptible, unmanageable,… — Hans F. Sennholz Copy Share Image
