Common sense … has the very curious property of being more correct retrospectively than prospectively. It seems to me that one of… — Russell L. Ackoff Copy Share Image
We're all a bunch of badminton birdies who just got batted from the Republican side of the court to the Democrat side.… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
I cannot believe that our factory system is the best mode by which men may get clothing. The condition of the operatives… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I grant this mode of secluding boys from the intercourse of private families has a tendency to make them scholars, but our… — Benjamin Rush Copy Share Image
If one might wish for impossibilities, I might then wish that my children might be well versed in physical science, but in… — Tom Arnold Copy Share Image
The investor should be aware that even though safety of its principal and interest may be unquestioned, a long term bond could… — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
The principal end both of my father and of myself in the conquest of India... has been the propagation of the holy… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Avoidance behavior is a response designed to protect the infant from behavioral disorganization. If we transfer this concept to adult life, we… — Anthony Storr Copy Share Image
You know it is not my interest to pay the principal, or my principal to pay the interest. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan Copy Share Image
Those who, either from their own engagements and hurry of business, or from indolence, or from conceit and vanity, have neglected looking… — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share Image
Throught human history, illusions of knowledge, not ignorance, have proven to be the principal obstacles to discovery — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
The world of Ultimate Spider-Man is funny. I can't imagine a live-action film where he's Principal Coulson and dealing with some of… — Clark Gregg Copy Share Image
As long as my sixth graders showed an average improvement of five years, the principal and district pretty much left me alone… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
A nickname a man may chance to wear out; but a system of calumnity, pursued by a faction, may descend even to… — Isaac D'Israeli Copy Share Image
Obama is talking to voters as though he is their boss, or their principal, or their father. He is not any of… — John Podhoretz Copy Share Image
There are two principal points of attention necessary for the preservation of this constant spirit of prayer which unites us with God;… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
We must reserve a back shop all our own entirely free, in which to establish our real liberty and our principal retreat… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
I also pray for favor and His anointing on my life and ministry that I might have spiritual blessing when I minister… — Pat Robertson Copy Share Image
An interesting fiction... however paradoxical the assertion may appear... addresses our love of truth- not the mere love of facts expressed by… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The importation of gold and silver is not the principal, much less the sole benefit which a nation derives from its foreign… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
All of the members of my new team have displayed in their work a strong sense of pragmatism that I promote... The… — Donald Tsang Copy Share Image
Two rules: 1. Preserve the principal 2. When in doubt, see Rule #1. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I was really a charmer; I was the guy who would get to the office, the principal would sit me down and… — Patrick J. Adams Copy Share Image
Hippo in a skirt: this was a comic reference to one of Solomon's principal wives, the one from Moab. Childish? Yes. But… — Jonathan Stroud Copy Share Image
