There is a natural greenhouse effect that contributes to warming. Greenhouse gases trap heat and thus warm the Earth because they prevent… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
The colonized is elevated above his jungle status in proportion to his adoption of the mother country's cultural standards. — Frantz Fanon Copy Share Image
I willingly confess to so great a partiality for trees as tempts me to respect a man in exact proportion to his… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
The state tends to expand in proportion to its means of existence and to live beyond its means, and these are, in… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
The private buildings [of Virginia] are very rarely constructed of stone or brick; much the greatest proportion being of scantlingand boards, plastered… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I have always been interested in fashion as an informing design discipline: proportion structure, detail, materiality, texture, color and quality. With a… — Charles Gwathmey Copy Share Image
In every work of art the subject is primordial, whether the artist knows it or not. The measure of the formal qualities… — Alberto Giacometti Copy Share Image
The strength to kill is not essential for self-defense; one ought to have the strength to die. When a man is fully… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The longest time that man may live, The lapse of generations of his race, The continent entire of time itself, Bears not… — James Sheridan Knowles Copy Share Image
It is the characteristic of great poems that they will yield of their sense in due proportion to the hasty and the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
An individual's arrogance is always in proportion to his lack of self-assurance. — Otto Weininger Copy Share Image
The very variety arising from the union of numbers of individuals is the highest good which social life can confer, and this… — Wilhelm von Humboldt Copy Share Image
I do not ... reject the use of statistics in medicine, but I condemn not trying to get beyond them and believing… — Claude Bernard Copy Share Image
Respect for character is always diminished in proportion to the number among whom the blame or praise is to be divided. — James Madison Copy Share Image
Our strength often increases in proportion to the obstacles imposed upon it. — Paul de Rapin Copy Share Image
I don't really agree that most academics frown when they hear Wikipedia. Most academics I find quite passionate about the concept of… — Jimmy Wales Copy Share Image
In order to be successful in any undertaking, I think the main thing is for one to grow to the point where… — Booker T. Washington Copy Share Image
In the loss of an object we do not proportion our grief to the real value it bears, but to the value… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
I have no pity! I have no pity! The more worms writhe, the more I yearn to crush out their entrails! It… — Emily Bronte Copy Share Image
Beginning in 1940,...questionable grades of (low) malignancy were classed as cancer. ...the proportion of 'cancer' cures...increased rapidly... — Hardin B. Jones Copy Share Image
Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Sometimes shooting on a smaller scale, as long as things don't blow out of proportion, is very liberating. — Daniel Craig Copy Share Image
The quality of a man's life is in direct proportion to his commitment to excellence. — Tom Landry Copy Share Image
Under the natural course of things each citizen tends towards his fittest function. Those who are competent to the kind of work… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image