"Some persons hold," he pursued, still hesitating, "that there is a wisdom of the Head, and that there is a wisdom of… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Augustine started from God's grace and got it right, Pelagius started from human effort and got it wrong. Augustine passionately pursued God;… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
If I had auditioned for 'Merlin' on magic alone, I don't think I'd have got it. Like any kid, I probably had… — Colin Morgan Copy Share Image
Obama's failure to close Guantanamo is yet another instance where the rhetoric of democratic and constitutional rights proved not useful for his… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
The full-grown modern human being who seeks but refuge finds instead boredom and mental dissolution, unless he can be, even in his… — Robert Briffault Copy Share Image
Sleep is no servant of the will; it has caprices of its own; when courted most, it lingers still; when most pursued,… — John Bowring Copy Share Image
Together they [President Nixon and Secretary Kissinger] pursued ends that frequently had a tenuous link with reality, using means that were not… — William Shawcross Copy Share Image
That's what noir feels like to me. It feels like some kind of recurring dream, with very strong archetypes operating. You know,… — Brian De Palma Copy Share Image
It's pretty clear that over the last three months the economy has paused. And it's also pretty clear the American people are… — John Boehner Copy Share Image
In a race, the quickest runner can never overtake the slowest, since the pursuer must first reach the point whence the pursued… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Normative ethics, pursued as a free, systematic, and critical attempt to find moral truth, regardless of religious and other authorities, is a… — Torbjorn Tannsjo Copy Share Image
[Wendy] Davis [pursued] higher education, as her campaign website says, with 'the help of academic scholarships, student loans, and state and federal… — Liza Mundy Copy Share Image
Few men can be said to have inimitable excellencies: let us watch them in their progress from infancy to manhood, and we… — Adam Clarke Copy Share Image
If we had pursued what President Nixon declared in 1970 as the war on cancer, we would have cured many strains. I… — Arlen Specter Copy Share Image
I've pursued a lifetime in the research on the social determinants of health and more recently been packaging not just my research… — Michael Marmot Copy Share Image
I'd grown up fearing the lynch mobs of the Ku Klux Klan; as an adult I was starting to wonder if I'd… — Clarence Thomas Copy Share Image
A great many people go after success simply for the shiny prizes it brings...And nowhere is it pursued more ardently than in… — Stephen Birmingham Copy Share Image
Contrary to what might be expected, I look back on experiences that at the time seemed especially desolating and painful with particular… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
In my judgment, if we had pursued this course, the zones would have been of short duration. England would have been compelled… — George William Norris Copy Share Image
The betrothed and accepted lover has lost the wildest charms of his maiden by her acceptance. She was heaven while he pursued… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Where suspicion fills the air and holds scholars in line for fear of their jobs, there can be no exercise of the… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
The cruel policy initiated by Columbus and pursued by his successors resulted in complete genocide. — Samuel Eliot Morison Copy Share Image
One of the most useful tasks of apology is to bring home to us how keenly, honestly, and painfully past generations pursued… — John Kador Copy Share Image
I am convinced that the public, large majority of the Greek people, realize that policies pursued in the past and the market… — Lucas Papademos Copy Share Image
There is, however, in art another kind of external similarity which is founded on a fundamental truth. When there is a similarity… — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share Image