He had drawn many a thousand of these rations in prisons and camps, and though he'd never had an opportunity to weight… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
If you develop 10 things, and you can get two or three made, that's a very high ration. — Judd Apatow Copy Share Image
Life is like invading Russia. A blitz start, massed shakos, plumes dancing like a flustered henhouse; a period of svelte progress recorded… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
People don't realize where unsweet tea came from. During the war they had to ration sugar, so then everybody just had to… — Si Robertson Copy Share Image
When the mind has a tendency to dream, it is a mistake to keep dreams away from it, to ration its dreams.… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
I began conducting when I was in school, around age 12, because I was writing little theater pieces and wanted to perform… — George Benjamin Copy Share Image
It is the daily; it is the small; it is the cumulative injuries of little people that we are here to protect....If… — Learned Hand Copy Share Image
Being deceived into thinking the perks of slavery are a good thing, we can easily aquire a preference for chains and a… — Dennis Green Copy Share Image
It is probable that two proposed unknown rations are incommensurable because if many unknown rations are proposed it is most probable that… — Nicole Oresme Copy Share Image
All that was required of them (i.e. the brain-washed masses) was a primitive patriotism which could be appealed to whenever it was… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Busy people begrudge the days being short. I can no longer sit back and allow Communist infiltration, Communist indoctrination, Communist subversion, and… — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
How, voters will ask, can we cover 50 million new people without any new doctors or nurses? The answer is to ration… — Dick Morris Copy Share Image
Gays have always been in the military. Alexander the Great was originally Alexander the Fabulous. A gay man invented C-rations. He claims… — Kate Clinton Copy Share Image
We live under continual threat of two equally fearful, but seemingly opposed destinies: unremitting banality and inconceivable terror. It is fantasy, served… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
When the animals entered the Ark in pairs, one may imagine that allied species made much private remark on each other, and… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
It is a human circumstance that when we are born we have not yet come into existence. We are lured into our… — Louise J. Kaplan Copy Share Image
Freedom is not empowerment. Empowerment is what the Serbs have in Bosnia. Anybody can grab a gun and be empowered. It's not… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Apart from selfish reasons, such as fear of punishments, fear of blame, of dishonour, etc, there remains only two motives that can… — African Spir Copy Share Image
When there is a world scarcity of any commodity, whether it's food or free speech, then the whole world must go on… — Jan Struther Copy Share Image
Jupiter, not wanting man's life to be wholly gloomy and grim, has bestowed far more passion than reason --you could reckon the… — Desiderius Erasmus Copy Share Image
If the factory people outside the colleges live under the discipline of narrow means, the people inside live under almost every other… — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
Let them get at the books themselves, and do not let them be flooded with diluted talk from the lips of their… — Charlotte Mason Copy Share Image
Monetary reform, if it is to be genuine and successful, must sever money and banking from politics. That's why a modern gold… — Lawrence Reed Copy Share Image
In an interview, last year in the journal Biotechnology Healthcare, Dr. Berwick said, “The decision is not whether or not we will… — Donald Berwick Copy Share Image
