Neglecting small things under the pretext of wanting to accomplish large ones is the excuse of a coward. — Alexandra David-Neel Copy Share Image
Today, aid to Colombia is given under the pretext of a drug war. That's pretty hard to take seriously. Ten years ago,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
At this day . . . the earth sustains on her bosom many monster minds, minds which are not afraid to employ… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Authentic faith leads us to treat others with unconditional seriousness and to a loving reverence for the mystery of the human personality.… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
As international support for Obama's decision to attack Syria has collapsed, along with the credibility of government claims, the administration has fallen… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
However fiercely opposed one may be to the present order, an old respect for the idea of order itself often prevents people… — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
And what do you say of lovers of wine... they are glad of any pretext of drinking any wine — Plato Copy Share Image
Not to open the hunting season on the pretext that there is no game would be as if one gave up celebrating… — Maurice Grimaud Copy Share Image
The source of Pyrrhonism comes from failing to distinguish between a demonstration, a proof and a probability. A demonstration supposes that the… — Andrew Michael Ramsay Copy Share Image
I add, that those who are bent on restoring the whole church ought to be well instructed in the word, and to… — John Nelson Darby Copy Share Image
If this phrase of the 'balance of power' is to be always an argument for war, the pretext for war will never… — John Bright Copy Share Image
Growth and mastery come only to those who vigorously self-direct. Initiating, creating, doing, reflecting, freely associating, enjoying privacy-these are precisely what the… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
At every step there is a pretext for enmity against our brother. — John of Kronstadt Copy Share Image
If a little flower could speak, it seems to me that it would tell us quite simply all that God has done… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Politics are always a struggle for power, disguised and modified by prudence, reason and moral pretext. — William Hurrell Mallock Copy Share Image
Narcotics have been systematically scapegoated and demonized. The idea that anyone can use drugs and escape a horrible fate is ananathema to… — Gus Van Sant Copy Share Image
There is no doubt that even the greatest musical geniuses have sometimes worked without inspiration. This guest (inspiration) does not always respond… — Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Copy Share Image
It's not religious war, but Al-Qaeda always use religions, Islam - actually, as a pretext and as a cover and as a… — Bashar al-Assad Copy Share Image
I think that any photographer is an investigator. Photography is a pretext to know the world, to know life. To know yourself. — Graciela Iturbide Copy Share Image
I refer to calls for humanitarian intervention in the affairs of another state - a new idea, this - even when they… — Boris Yeltsin Copy Share Image
She missed him the days when some pretext served to take him away from her, just as one misses the sun on… — Kate Chopin Copy Share Image
Everywhere do I percieve a certain conspiracy of rich men seeking their own advantage underthat name and pretext of commonwealth. — Thomas More Copy Share Image
The usual pretext of those who make others unhappy is that they do it for their own good. — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
They knew only too well the intimate bond which unites faith with worship, 'the law of belief with the law of prayer,'… — Pope Leo XIII Copy Share Image
In 1856...I preferred the success of a candidate whose election would prevent or postpone secession, to seeing the country plunged into a… — Ulysses S. Grant Copy Share Image
