The reason is that nature has so created men that they are able to desire everything but are not able to attain… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
One of the highlights of my career was playing first class rugby for my province, which was Wellington. Another highlight was playing… — Filo Tiatia Copy Share Image
It may be observed, that provinces amid the vicissitudes to which they are subject, pass from order into confusion, and afterward recur… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
Critical acumen is exerted in vain to uncover the past; the past cannot be presented; we cannot know what we are not.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The research reported on in our book "A=B", has moved a whole active field of mathematics from the province of human thought… — Herbert Wilf Copy Share Image
While brother Joseph was referring to the provinces of God, I was led to reflect that there is no act, no principle,… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
Short of preventing harm to the child, the standard of 'best interest of the child' is insufficient to serve as a compelling… — Barbara Madsen Copy Share Image
I have learnt that all our theories are not Truth itself, but resting places or stages on the way to the conquest… — Justus von Liebig Copy Share Image
The dramatic art would appear to be rather a feminine art; it contains in itself all the artifices which belong to the… — Sarah Bernhardt Copy Share Image
Rock music is the province of the young, and it should be made by young people. I'm not running around in a… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
It is always and everywhere the province of the central bank to monetize any spending, the government's or the private sector's, by… — Caroline Baum Copy Share Image
I wish that after the war against Saddam Hussein we had been more effective at rebuilding Iraq quickly. I think had we… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
Lots of things are not possible for municipalities, suburbs, or collections of them now. They are not possible and they would become… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
The people in the southern provinces have no interest whatsoever to see British forces leave because they're providing security, stability, structure, and… — Hoshyar Zebari Copy Share Image
I'm conscious of competitive issues, but at the same time the recommendation they make is that we protect citizens by not adding… — Christy Clark Copy Share Image
Manitoba... Not sure what to do about them. Restock the province with megafauna and encourage tourism, I think. How quickly can we… — James Nicoll Copy Share Image
Well, Ramadi is a provincial capital of Anbar province. It's a sprawling city west of Baghdad. It's a poor city, endless cinderblock… — Tom Bowman Copy Share Image
To compose our character is our duty, not to compose books, and to win, not battles and provinces, but order and tranquillity… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
It is the peculiar province of the legislature to prescribe general rules for the government of society; the application of those rules… — John Marshall Copy Share Image
The people of the various provinces are strictly forbidden to have in their possession any swords, bows, spears, firearms or other types… — Toyotomi Hideyoshi Copy Share Image
No big modern war has been won without preponderant sea power; and, conversely, very few rebellions of maritime provinces have succeeded without… — Samuel Eliot Morison Copy Share Image
The study of social progress is to-day not less needed in literature than is the analysis of the human heart. We live… — Alfred de Vigny Copy Share Image
Mozart in his music was probably the most reasonable of the world's great composers. It is the happy balance between flight and… — Aaron Copland Copy Share Image
We like to say that India has the advantage of being a large market. We have provinces, we have the rule of… — Ratan Tata Copy Share Image
Through the Social Enterprise Demonstration Fund, we are connecting high-potential social enterprises with the resources they need to grow and create jobs.… — Brad Duguid Copy Share Image
The study of economic organization commonly proceeds as though market and administrative modes of organization were disjunct. Market organization is the province… — Oliver E. Williamson Copy Share Image
Between the villages of Aubiere and Romagnat in the ancient Province of Auvergne there is an old road that comes suddenly over… — Hervey Allen Copy Share Image
Here is the full list of the banned words I used: active homosexual; career women; Third World; blacks; Asians; Australasia; Bangalore; primitive… — Rod Liddle Copy Share Image
We're dealing with such enormous problems today that we have no other choice but to work together. If Iraq fails, if a… — Zalmay Khalilzad Copy Share Image
Nature is a vast tablet, inscribed with signs, each of which has its own significancy, and becomes poetry in the mind when… — Hugh Miller Copy Share Image
The Youth Employment Fund is helping Ontario's young people build valuable skills and access job opportunities that will lay the groundwork for… — Brad Duguid Copy Share Image
Among the innumerable monuments of architecture constructed by the Romans, how many have escaped the notice of history, how few have resisted… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
The rural Chinese in Henan Province mixed alcohol and business like you wouldn’t believe. Perhaps as a result, they also had a… — Matthew Polly Copy Share Image
The particular province of the shaman is the province of soul, that which feeds our embodied life, or fails to feed it.… — Robert Moss Copy Share Image
There are, of course, a number of epistemological questions, some of which lie more in the province of the philosopher than they… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
If some lose their whole fortunes, they will drag many more down with them . . . believe me that the whole… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
The hidden village was something we found when we went to research in China we climbed a mountain in the Sichuan province… — Jennifer Yuh Nelson Copy Share Image
