The reason why truth is so much stranger than fiction is that there is no requirement for it to be consistent. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
You can assume that if a writer's work has survived for centuries, there are reasons why this is so, explanations that have… — Francine Prose Copy Share Image
The matters I am talking about regarding the ports. That matter has been discussed with the unions, and agreed, and therefore there… — Thabo Mbeki Copy Share Image
This life is for us to discover the divine within. And that's really the key to life in many ways for me.… — Jon Anderson Copy Share Image
To put yourself into a situation where a mistake cannot necessarily be recouped, where the life you lose may be your own,… — Al Alvarez Copy Share Image
One of the reasons why we started the Green Belt Movement is to work with these ordinary peasant farmers so as to… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
To have a Welch-caliber C.E.O. is impressive.To have a century of Welch-Caliber C.E.O.'s all grown from the inside - well, that is… — James C. Collins Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, our [american] workplace rules are stuck in the seventies, when, out of a block of 10 houses, in more than half… — Kirsten Gillibrand Copy Share Image
Sandy deWitt at TBWA\Hunt\Lascaris in Johannesburg, South Africa, taught me to make a decision and stick with it. Every day we're faced… — Melissa Sue Anderson Copy Share Image
Just as little can we afford to follow the doctrinaires of an impossible - and incidentally of a highly undesirable - social… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
As soon as an opinion becomes common it is sufficient reason for men to abandon it and to uphold the opposite opinion… — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
I always try to get as personal as I can with the characters that I play, which is a reason why I… — Romany Malco Copy Share Image
Other people have worked with big studios and maintained control over their movies. I see no reason why it wouldn't work for… — Noah Baumbach Copy Share Image
The world has never before had as much drama as today. Radio, films, television and video inundate us with drama. But while… — Girish Karnad Copy Share Image
The democratic ideal has always been related to a moderate level of inequality. I think one big reason why electoral democracy flourished… — Thomas Piketty Copy Share Image
The only reason why I acted in school was because of the community, like I was in the chorus of every play,… — John Krasinski Copy Share Image
I think everybody did their share of experimenting in the 1960s with drugs. My story is real simple. I was taking amphetamines… — Tommy James Copy Share Image
There is a reason why these people [from Wall Street] are putting huge amounts of money into our political system. And in… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
The eureka moment is two reasons why the output-based standard should be adopted: common sense and accountability. Input-based standards don't encourage energy… — Frank Luntz Copy Share Image
The big reason why I became an actor in the first place was to communicate. I never acted in high school...I was… — Bruce Dern Copy Share Image
The reason why any one refuses his assent to your opinion, or his aid to your benevolent design, is in you: he… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
He who reforms himself, has done much toward reforming others; and one reason why the world is not reformed, is, because each… — Thomas Adams Copy Share Image
There is a trait in the Jewish character that does provoke animosity, maybe it's a kind of lack of generosity towards non-Jews.… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
Me myself I park in handicap, the reason why... ya know my bankroll make me walk with a crazy limp. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I did not know that 'poetess' was an insult, and that I myself would some day be called one. I did not… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image