Persons who clamor for governmental control of American railways should visit Germany, and above all Russia, to see how such control results.… — Andrew Dickson White Copy Share Image
Human beings want to see each other. We want to be heard by each other. — Jacqueline Novogratz Copy Share Image
Risk the stuff. It's worthless anyway. But don't make the insane choice of sacrificing your happiness for stuff. — Steve Pavlina Copy Share Image
Maybe I'm perverse, but the question of "rooting" for a character, or setting out to write a character for whom other people… — James Lasdun Copy Share Image
This special feeling towards fruit, its glory and abundance, is I would say universal.... We respond to strawberry fields or cherry orchards… — Jane Grigson Copy Share Image
All of the evidence highlights the implicit bargain that is offered to citizens: pose no challenge and you have nothing to worry… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
“Passion, and passion in its profoundest, is not a thing demanding a palatial stage whereon to play its part. Down among the… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Teaching is a creative profession, not a delivery system. Great teachers do [pass on information], but what great teachers also do is… — Ken Robinson Copy Share Image
Rules, whether they govern sexual morality or financial probity, regardless of whether they are justifiable or undesirable, always provoke bold recalcitrants to… — Richard Davenport-Hines Copy Share Image
The business model of the conservative media is built on two elements: provoking the audience into a fever of indignation (to keep… — David Frum Copy Share Image
Those who today murdered our people in an ambush not only plotted to murder some Jews but intended to provoke us... The… — David Ben-Gurion Copy Share Image
I believe that companies, doing business in a responsible and sustainable way, can help raise the quality of life and standards of… — Antony Burgmans Copy Share Image
News at Work is a vivid, inside look at the collision of print journalism and electronic media. Based on close access to… — Walter W. Powell Copy Share Image
The book Forest Dark wants to provoke questions about what is reality and why are we so given to believe that reality… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
To cherish and stimulate the activity of the human mind, by multiplying the objects of enterprise, is not among the least considerable… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
The best I can hope for is that I might provoke a water cooler argument between you and somebody else. But it… — David Simon Copy Share Image
The shock of the way I mix patterns and fabrics can be disconcerting, but what I am trying to do is provoke… — Jean Paul Gaultier Copy Share Image
The best films of any kind, narrative or documentary, provoke questions. — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
Mr. Chairman, the price for continuing this war is too high, not only in budgetary terms, but in American lives, Iraqi civilian… — John Conyers Copy Share Image
When systems are broken, it's an opportunity for invention and innovation. — Jacqueline Novogratz Copy Share Image
Father and Mother are apostles, bishops and priests to their children, for it is they who make them acquainted with the gospel. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Socrates worked towards making people question themselves. He like to provoke self-interrogation but wasn't particularly interested in the answers that emerged; he… — Eric Cantona Copy Share Image
