It is preposterous that the current members of the United States Senate and all of their predecessors for more than 200 years… — John Jay Hooker Copy Share Image
In that sense, Obama is America's first postmodern president. If his predecessors tended to see the world in terms of good and… — Stephen F. Hayes Copy Share Image
Historical chronology, human or geological, depends... upon comparable impersonal principles. If one scribes with a stylus on a plate of wet clay… — M. King Hubbert 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
Pope Francis said the use of contraception could be justified in regions hit by the Zika virus; a stance that could reignite… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Long before the idea of a writer's conference was a glimmer in anyone's eye, writers learned by reading the work of their… — Francine Prose Copy Share Image
Today the crime novelist has one advantage denied to writers of 'straight' or 'literary' novels. Unlike them he can range over all… — Allan Massie Copy Share Image
A generation may bind itself as long as its majority continues in life; when that has disappeared, another majority is in place,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Every few seconds a new book sees the light of day. Most of them will just be a part of the hum… — Ivan Klíma Copy Share Image
It is given to few to add the store of knowledge, to strike new springs of thought, or to shape new forms… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Every bit as visceral and hypnotic as its award-winning predecessor, On the Ropes is a tour-de-force of fluid, yet detailed storytelling. — Dave Gibbons Copy Share Image
Philosophy would long ago have reached a high level if our predecessors and fathers had put this into practice; and we would… — Marin Mersenne Copy Share Image
[on Richard Wagner] A beautiful sunset that was mistaken for a dawn. — Claude Debussy Copy Share Image
Young people today are being robbed. Of their rights. Of their freedom. Of their dignity. Of their futures. The culprits? My generation… — Tom G. Palmer Copy Share Image
Gargoyles were the complement to saints; Leonardo's caricatures were complementary to his untiring search for ideal beauty. And gargoyles were the expression… — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
Some guys are just very, very interested in their sport and their predecessors. I know I was a guy like that when… — Bill Parcells Copy Share Image
Behind the mask of diplomatic and political cooperation and partnership with the United States and Europe, the current Russian leaders are following… — Anatoliy Golitsyn Copy Share Image
We can try to gain some of the sensibility of some of the indigenous populations of the world or our predecessors 800… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
We come out of Jewish-refugee, Holocaust stock, which means that our predecessors fled and we learned that systems of power are vulnerable… — Eugene Jarecki Copy Share Image
The language Mr. Obama uses is refreshingly different from that of his predecessor, George W. Bush. — Mir-Hossein Mousavi Copy Share Image
I imagine, like all his predecessors, Barak Obama would like to achieve greatness in bringing peace in the Middle East. I hope… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Genius may anticipate the season of maturity; but in the education of a people, as in that of an individual, memory must… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Every generation is a secret society and has incommunicable enthusiasms, tastes, and interests which are a mystery both to its predecessors and… — John Jay Chapman Copy Share Image
Most of the 50 or so invitations you receive each week come from people inviting the President's Chief of Staff, not you.… — Donald Rumsfeld Copy Share Image
I've never been a fan of presidents who place blame on their predecessors or who accept credit for events that couldn't have… — Kathleen Parker Copy Share Image
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