A nice state of affairs when a man has to indulge his vices by proxy. — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
if human justice is to supplement Nature's provisions, all family duties must be shared equitably, in person or by proxy. — Antoinette Brown Blackwell Copy Share Image
Iran has proxies in Yemen, Syria, Iraq. You can push back against Iran without pulling out of the deal. — Peter R. Mansoor Copy Share Image
Time, presence and physical attentiveness are our most basic proxies for something ultimately unprovable: that we are understood. — Tom Chatfield Copy Share Image
Asking Saudi Arabia and Iran to work together, when they can't stand each other and are engaged in a proxy battle right… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
At the end of the day, money is just a proxy for votes. That is what makes politics so vulnerable to social… — Sean Parker Copy Share Image
NYC Marathon cancelled: runners are scrambling to find some other meaningless accomplishment to use as a proxy for control over their lives. — Nils Parker Copy Share Image
Art appreciation, like love, cannot be done by proxy: It is a very personal affair and is necessary to each individual. — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
We are not interested in a proxy war. Our objective is to change Russia's behavior. — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
Urban conservationists may feel entitled to be unconcerned about food production because they are not farmers. But they can't be let off… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Before I read the script [The Following], I saw the schedule, and imagine how confusing that was. I thought it was intriguing.… — Natalie Zea Copy Share Image
The Mormons even baptized Anne Frank. It took Ernest Michel, then chairman of the American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors, three years… — Maureen Dowd Copy Share Image
contemporary poetry is a kind of Reykjavik, a place where accessibility and intelligence have been fighting a Cold War by proxy for… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
Looking at where you went to school is a proxy; you assume, because someone went to a good school, therefore they must… — Vivienne Ming Copy Share Image
Typically, discussions of the safety net boil down to one side wanting to spend more in the name of compassion, and the… — Todd Young Copy Share Image
Graham Greene famously said that all writers need a chip of ice in their heart; Cusk can come across as the most… — Julie Burchill Copy Share Image
Like everyone else, I am going to die. But the words - the words live on for as long as there are… — J. Michael Straczynski Copy Share Image
Like everyone else, I was at least peripherally involved in the antiwar movement. You woke up every morning feeling tormented about what… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
The big picture is: the main thing you should be concerned about in the future are incremental returns on capital going forward.… — Joel Greenblatt Copy Share Image
No matter your situation, you can make family history a part of your life right now. Primary children can draw a family… — Russell M. Nelson Copy Share Image
Monopolistic capitalism is to blame for this; it sunders the right to own property from responsibility that owning property involves. Those who… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Is the warming unprecedented? Probably not. There is abundant historical and proxy evidence for both hotter and cooler periods in human history.… — Don Aitkin Copy Share Image
I think we all mistake certain things for happiness. I think we mistake comfort for happiness and we mistake pleasure for happiness,… — Simon Pegg Copy Share Image
The twentieth century had dispensed with the formal declaration of war and introduced the fifth column, sabotage, cold war, and war by… — Stanislaw Lem Copy Share Image
Hence, the less government we have, the better,--the fewer laws, and the less confided power. The antidote to this abuse of formalGovernment,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Russia ought to get Iran to back out of the proxy wars they are involved in. — Michael T. Flynn Copy Share Image
I really believe that you cannot use the stock market as a proxy for the economy. — Howard Schultz Copy Share Image
We don't know how to identify intelligence over interstellar distances, so what we do instead is use technology for a proxy, — Jill Tarter Copy Share Image