When the first mechanical clocks were invented, marking off time in crisp, regular intervals, it must have surprised people to discover that… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
You have to be careful on the deck, because of the "hatches," which are holes placed around a sailboat at random to… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
Growth at an exceptional rate is a red flag in banking. It is hard enough to manage an ordinary bank; to control… — James Grant Copy Share Image
I realize my need to be liked or my need for strangers to rate me well, even with their words and their… — Rashida Jones Copy Share Image
It is enough to be responsible for ensuring that our people have the opportunity to graze in the rich grass of God's… — T. D. Jakes Copy Share Image
If the best the roboticists can hope for is the creation of some crude, cheesy, second-rate, artificial consciousness, they still win. — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
In the U.S. for instance, the value of a homemaker's productive work has been imputed mostly when she was maimed or killed… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
There is a rawness and a wonder to life. Pursue it. Hunt for it. Sell out to get it. Don't listen to… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
American children are the heaviest worldwide, and they are getting heavier at a faster rate than other children around the globe. This… — Joel Fuhrman Copy Share Image
The only thing I'm addicted to is winning. This bootleg cult, arrogantly referred to as Alcoholics Anonymous, reports a 5 percent success… — Charlie Sheen Copy Share Image
The philosophy underlying the system of progressive taxation is that the income and wealth of the well-to-do classes can be freely tapped.… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
When the rate of return on capital exceeds the rate of growth of output and income, as it did in the nineteenth… — Thomas Piketty Copy Share Image
Innovators and creators are persons who can to a higher degree than average accept the condition of aloneness. They are more willing… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
Well you know I've attracted a lot of criticism by, for example, suggesting that child benefit should be taken away from higher… — George Osborne Copy Share Image
Perhaps I am too tame, too domestic a magician. But how does one work up a little madness? I meet with mad… — Susanna Clarke Copy Share Image
If Warren Buffett made his money from ordinary income rather than capital gains, his tax rate would be a lot higher than… — Michael Bloomberg Copy Share Image
There is but one question ultimately to be asked respecting every line you draw, Is it right or wrong? If right, it… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Because scientists know that all human beings do not age at the same rate, biological age is measured by how well one's… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
Nobody can be so beautiful from the outside and so hollow from inside. Not even in a third-rate novel. — Marlene van Niekerk Copy Share Image
But there's this one difference: one is gold put to the use of paving-stones, and the other is tin polished to ape… — Emily Bronte Copy Share Image
Really, the potential for, first of all, any college graduate today is enormously good. These are good times for anyone with a… — Alexis Herman Copy Share Image
We talk about saving time and killing time when actually we can't do either. We have no choice but to spend it… — Michael LeBoeuf Copy Share Image
The population of the planet is increasing at an alarming rate, and yet each day human beings manage to destroy ten species. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
When you lose your job, the unemployment rate isn't four percent, it's 100 percent. — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
Those who want luxury cars should buy them at market rates and not ... abuse public funds. — Gideon Gono Copy Share Image
