Courses on historical methodology are not worth the time that they take up. I shall never give one myself, and I have… — Samuel E. Morison Copy Share Image
Gun control does not decrease gun ownership by criminals but instead reduces their incentives to refrain from violence because it decreases the… — John McGinnis Copy Share Image
All of the evidence highlights the implicit bargain that is offered to citizens: pose no challenge and you have nothing to worry… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
Wait on the Lord" is a constant refrain in the Psalms, and it is a necessary word, for God often keeps us… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Until government administrators can so identify the interests of government with those of the people and refrain from defrauding the masses through… — Elgin Groseclose Copy Share Image
When I take photographs, my body inevitably enters a trancelike state. Briskly weaving my way through the avenues, every cell in my… — Daido Moriyama Copy Share Image
I see the origin of the irresistible attraction of metaphor and analogy, the explanation of our strange and permanent need to find… — Roger Caillois Copy Share Image
This is a photograph, so it is as you see: there are no lies and no deceptions. One can detect here, elevated… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
It is accordance with our determination to refrain from aggression and build up a sentiment and practice among nations more favorable to… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
A perfect historian must possess an imagination sufficiently powerful to make his narrative affecting and picturesque; yet he must control it so… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
Is not moderation an old refrain Ringing in our ears? from which we all refrain. — Jean de La Fontaine Copy Share Image
The English never smash in a face. They merely refrain from asking it to dinner. — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
“Never More is neither our motto nor a refrain of our song. Let’s kiss and make up!” — Lara Biyuts. Forever Jocelyn Copy Share Image
I encourage young people to refrain from putting themselves in dangerous situations in the name of validating themselves sexually. — Christopher Rice Copy Share Image
If a well-constituted individual refrains from blazoning aught amiss or calamitous in his family, a nation in the like circumstance may without… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Eva [Braun] also cried when [Adolf Hitler] would leave her for long periods. She was inconsolable without him, that was a never-changing… — Gretl Braun Copy Share Image
For me to dominate the Congress in spite of these fundamental differences is almost a species of violence which I must refrain… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
That, Senators, is what a favour from gangs amounts to. They refrain from murdering someone; then they boast that they have spared… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
The big diffrence between a warrior and a victim is that the victim represses and the warrior refrains. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If we can refrain from harming others in our actions & words, we can start to give serious attention to actively doing good. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
The true meaning of the precepts is not just that one should refrain from drinking alcohol, but also from getting drunk on… — Bassui Tokusho Copy Share Image
There is nothing in my teachings to the Church or in those of my associates, during the time specified, which can be… — Wilford Woodruff Copy Share Image
Just as the grammarian makes one study grammar, A Buddha teaches according to the tolerance of his students; Some he urges to… — Akkineni Nagarjuna Copy Share Image
He was a man who would never ask for sympathy. He was a man who sought only to do what was right.… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
Limericks don't come from Limerick. But it comes from that between the verses when they used to have those competitions that they… — Malachy McCourt Copy Share Image
There is a one-in-300 chance that Earth will be struck on March 16, 2880, by an asteroid large enough to destroy civilization… — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
Because we can expect future generations to be richer than we are, no matter what we do about resources, asking us to… — Julian Simon Copy Share Image
Kindness steers no easy course. Attributing it to character, we seldom recognize the secret efforts of a noble heart, whereas we reward… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
“People will not refrain from criticizing. But one should not keep on criticizing. The world is such that it will run smoothly… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Question the Chestnuts. Chestnuts: the new name for boobs? No. NO. Why would you even say that? Get your mind out of… — Chuck Wendig Copy Share Image
When you refrain from habitual thoughts and behavior, the uncomfortable feelings will still be there. They don’t magically disappear. Over the years,… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
If you're going to live in a community, you have to refrain from killing one another and stealing from one another. You… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
It would have been more to the point, more honest and more Christian, in past decades not to support those who intentionally… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
This spirit of freedom is expanding even where it must struggle against the external obstacles of governments that misunderstand their own function.… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Nations, as well as man, almost always betray the most prominent features of their future destiny in their earliest years. When I… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image