The human mind is generally far more eager to praise and dispraise than to describe and define. It wants to make every… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I repose in this quiet and secluded spot, not from any natural preference for solitude, but finding other cemeteries limited as to… — thaddeus stevens Copy Share Image
The Internet will win because it is relentless. Like a cannibal, it even turns on it own. Though early portals like Prodigy… — John Sununu Copy Share Image
By patriotism is meant, not only spontaneous, instinctive love for one's own nation, and preference for it above all other nations, but… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
We will never find joy in church membership when we are constantly seeking things our way. But paradoxically, we will find the… — Thom S. Rainer Copy Share Image
To begin with myself, then, the utterances of men concerning me will differ widely, since in passing judgment almost every one is… — Petrarch Copy Share Image
Once I appealed to distinguish words "gay" and "homosexual"... "Gayship" is a political homosexualism, a sort of left-wing ideology based on a… — Rafal A. Ziemkiewicz Copy Share Image
Those of us who have been very fortunate have a duty to give back. Whether one gives a lot as one goes… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
Just how destructive does a culinary preference have to be before we decide to eat something else? If contributing to the suffering… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
So when the wolf pounces on your lamb, just ignore the pitiful bleating and remind yourself that this is a democracy, where… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
In the neuter austerity of that terrain all phenomena were bequeathed a strange equality and no one thing nor spider nor stone… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
If a woman conceals her affection with the same skill from the object of it, she may lose the opportunity of fixing… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Never have anything to do with likes and dislikes. The absence of what one likes is painful, as is the presence of… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites…in proportion as… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
I think that the Holy Spirit works through the pastors of the church. It helps me avoid the trap of writing to… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
A man has a very insecure tenure of a property which another can carry away with his eyes. A few months reduced… — Samuel Crompton Copy Share Image
The greater informational levels of the voters, their decreasing inhibitions in expressing disagreement, and their greater preference for Jeffersonian direct involvement, all… — Dick Morris Copy Share Image
Now I am . . . like anyone with a strong preference for the fly rod, totally indifferent to how large a… — Vance Bourjaily Copy Share Image
The truth may be puzzling. It may take some work to grapple with. It may be counterintuitive. It may contradict deeply held… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
It is not our sexual preferences, the color of our skin, the language we speak, nor the religion we practice that creates… — Yehuda Berg Copy Share Image
It becomes dangerous for somebody who doesn't want their boss to know their sexual preference to use online networks to push for… — Rebecca MacKinnon Copy Share Image
The confusion between temperament and character has had serious consequences for ethical theory. Preferences with regard to differences in temperament are mere… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
When are programmers happy? They're happy when they're not underutilized - when they're not bored - and also when they're not overburdened… — Eric S. Raymond Copy Share Image
If I were starting life over again, I am inclined to think that I would go into the advertising business in preference… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Of two pleasures, if there be one which all or almost all who have experience of both give a decided preference, irrespective… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
The Bible, when not read in schools, is seldom read in any subsequent period of life...The Bible...should be read in our schools… — Benjamin Rush Copy Share Image
No one, and the liberal cognoscenti least of all, wants to look at why, after decades of throwing money at a rotting… — Wesley Pruden Copy Share Image
I must beg you to indulge me in the matter of hyphens… You will find that I have marked out a great… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
I think one of the problems when we discuss the Israel-Palestine conflict is people talk too much in terms of, 'What's your… — Norman Finkelstein Copy Share Image
We are neurologically hardwired to seek out people like ourselves. We start forming cliques as soon as we're old enough to know… — iO Tillett Wright Copy Share Image
“The JP preference does show itself in simple and accessible reactions. It serves admirably as the fourth dichotomy if one detail is… — Isabel Briggs Myers Copy Share Image
When the average child is now spending nearly eight hours a day in front of some kind of screen, many of their… — Michelle Obama Copy Share Image
Peace is one of the most obvious earmarks of the authority of Christ. A sense of peace will virtually always accompany His… — Beth Moore Copy Share Image
The inherent preferences of organizations are clarity, certainty and perfection. The inherent nature of human relationships involves ambiguity, uncertainty, and imperfection. How… — Richard Pascale Copy Share Image
Every cell has certain knowledge. I think knowledge is contained within the genetics, even. I think scientists will find that. I don't… — RZA Copy Share Image
In my address last year, I spoke on the issue of gaming. My preference then is my preference now: to keep gaming… — Tim Pawlenty Copy Share Image
The camera can be lenient; it is can also expert at being cruel. But its cruelty only produces another kind of beauty,… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
We do not belong to those who only get their thought from books, or at the prompting of books, -- it is… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I guess it's a personal preference. Me, personally, I like to be able to tell the stories that I want to tell… — Mekhi Phifer Copy Share Image
If your husband asks what you think, tell him. If you have a preference, voice it. If you have a question, ask… — Kristin Armstrong Copy Share Image