There is more evidence to prove that saltness [of the sea] is due to the admixture of some substance, besides that which… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
I got a parking ticket one time in L.A. and I was furious about it. I was trying to prove a point… — Rob Huebel Copy Share Image
Words.” His tone sharpened. “I shared my house, my bed, and my blood with you, as well as offered you a place… — Jeaniene Frost Copy Share Image
Each such answer to the great question, invariably asserted by the followers of its propounder, if not by himself, to be complete… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
We think we have to prove our allegiance to God by being poor. Many years ago, my own psychic development teacher taught… — Echo Bodine Copy Share Image
Science is unflinchingly deterministic, and it has begun to force its determinism into morals. On some shining tomorrow a psychoanalyst may be… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
I am saying that out of a spirit of appreciation and gratitude, and a sense of duty, you ought to make whatever… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
He turned, throwing over hi shoulder, ”And if he growls at you, even once, he’s out. He looks wild.” I am, Riley… — Gena Showalter Copy Share Image
“Anyone can prove whatever they want. It's easy. I could "prove," via those mechanisms that carbs are the devil, fat is the… — Matt Stone Copy Share Image
For many observers, a child who has known nothing but war, a child for whom the Kalashnikov is the only way to… — Ishmael Beah Copy Share Image
Business is recognizing the role it can play in combatting climate change. Thank God, is all I can say, for there is… — Prince Charles Copy Share Image
They say that vegetable food is not sufficiently nutritious. But chemistry proves the contrary. So does physiology. So does experience…And again: the… — R. Trall Copy Share Image
Come, my Celia, let us prove, While we can, the sports of love, Time will not be ours for ever, He, at… — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
It is almost impossible to describe happiness, because at the time it feels entirely natural, as if all the rest of your… — Margaret George Copy Share Image
...One of the most important lessons, perhaps, is the fact that SOFTWARE IS HARD. From now on I shall have significantly greater… — Donald Knuth Copy Share Image
The more you expect from life, the more your expectations will be fulfilled. By laughing, you do not use up your laughter,… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
[T]here seems to have been an actual decline in rational thinking. The United States had become a place where entertainers and professional… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Of possible quadruple algebras the one that had seemed to him by far the most beautiful and remarkable was practically identical with… — Benjamin Peirce Copy Share Image
The kind of knowledge which is supported only by observations and is not yet proved must be carefully distinguished from the truth;… — Leonhard Euler Copy Share Image
Nevertheless, if we contemplate a society with a somewhat stable wage-unit, with national characteristics which determine the propensity to consume and the… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
Now, helpless in the hollow of An unarmorial age, a trough Of smoke in slow suspended skeins Above their scrap of history,… — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
A good breeder or experienced rescue agency wants you to prove that you'll be a capable caretaker. The interrogation and screening can… — Jon Katz Copy Share Image
We study the glory of God, and the honour and liberty of parliament, for which we unanimously fight, without seeking our own… — Oliver Cromwell Copy Share Image
We must observe that the knowledge of God which we are invited to cultivate is not that which, resting satisfied with empty… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Most people don't know this, but if you settle a debt for less than the amount you owed, you are potentially responsible… — Jean Chatzky Copy Share Image
I hear you reproach, "But delay was best, For their end was a crime." Oh, a crime will do As well, I… — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
With a truly tragic delusion,” Carl Jung noted, “these theologians fail to see that it is not a matter of proving the… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Like propaganda generally, advertising must thus pervade the atmosphere; for it wants, paradoxically, to startle its beholders without really being noticed by… — Mark Crispin Miller Copy Share Image
I hope we shall prove how much happier for man the Quaker policy is, and that the life of the feeder is… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
May it not be asked of every intelligent friend to the liberties of his country, whether the power exercised in such an… — James Madison Copy Share Image
I never think of my audience when I write a poem. I try to write out of whatever is haunting me; in… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
I do not approve of anything that tampers with natural ignorance. Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Smearing good people like Lauchlin Currie [former administrative assistant to President Roosevelt], Alger Hiss and others is, I think, unforgiveable... Anyone knowing… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
If you're in music, you're in music, and if you're in music you just want to keep making records and playing. That's… — Paul Weller Copy Share Image
As a historian I understand how histories are written. My enemies will write histories that dismiss me and prove I was unimportant.… — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
It is neither just the religious, the spiritual, the power-hungry, the evil, the ignorant, the corrupt, the Christian, the Muslim, the Hindu,… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Any strategy that attempts to reinforce faith by undermining science is also doomed to failure. Showing that some scientific theory is wrong… — Victor J. Stenger Copy Share Image
God's purpose in creation was to let us prove ourselves. The plan was explained to us in the spirit world before we… — Henry B. Eyring Copy Share Image
Adultery is the vice of equivocation. It is not marriage but a mockery of it, a merging that mixes love and dread… — Alexander Theroux Copy Share Image
A woman cannot do the thing she ought, which means whatever perfect thing she can, in life, in art, in science, but… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image