It is often interesting, in retrospect, to consider the trifling causes that lead to great events. A chance encounter, a thoughtless remark… — Patricia Moyes Copy Share Image
He [John McCain] is a war hero because he was captured. I like people that weren't captured. — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
I let people make remarks about me, but it doesn't touch me, all those remarks. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Copy Share Image
Genuinely good remarks surprise their author as well as his audience… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
Hateful, racist and ignorant remarks. When I hear people criticize without knowing the context, it makes me boil inside. — Kristen Stewart Copy Share Image
I will remark in the way of general information, that in California, that land of felicitous nomenclature, the literary name of this… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
There seems to be no agent more effective than another person in bringing a world for oneself alive, or, by a glance,… — Erving Goffman Copy Share Image
I have a good idea every two years. Give me a topic, I will give you the idea! [Reputed to have been… — Fritz Zwicky Copy Share Image
I made the remark that I don't avoid people in order to live quietly, but rather in order to be able to… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
It is quite easy to remark the absurdities and contradictions of a country's social system from outside its borders, but very difficult… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
Representative William McK. Springer, remarks in the House, quoting Henry Clay: As for me, I would rather be right than be President.… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
One need hardly dwell on the catastrophic possibility of uttering a bantering remark only to discover it wholly inappropriate — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
If any imagine from the literary tone of the preceding remarks that we are indifferent to the radical movement for the benefit… — George Ripley Copy Share Image
Whoever has not experienced the pleasure of taking a young lady to her first game of ball should seize the first opportunity… — John Montgomery Ward Copy Share Image
I know not whether the remark is to our honour or otherwise, that lessons of wisdom have never such power over us,… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
When the ball was last seen crossing the roof of the stand in deep right field at 315 feet, we wonder whether… — Heywood Broun Copy Share Image
It does seem so pleasant to talk with an old acquaintance who knows what you know. I see so many new folks… — Sarah Orne Jewett Copy Share Image
It is, of course, a trite observation to say that we live "in a period of transition." Many people have said this… — Harold MacMillan Copy Share Image
I'll co-host 'TODAY' from Los Angeles Saturday morning and then make my way up to Merced for that evening's graduation ceremony. I'm… — Lester Holt Copy Share Image
It takes talent to please the people in a sermon by a flowery style, a cheerful ethic, brilliant sallies and lively descriptions;… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
The Bible is a warm letter of affection from a parent to a child; and yet there are many who see chiefly… — Thomas De Witt Talmage Copy Share Image
The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him. That remark in itself wouldn’t make any sense… — Robert Benchley Copy Share Image
...But nature does not say that cats are more valuable than mice; nature makes no remark on the subject. She does not… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Wheeler hopes that we can discover, within the context of physics, a principle that will enable the universe to come into existence… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
Consultation and compliance can conduce little to the perfection of any literary performance; for whoever is so doubtful of his own abilities… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Nowadays theologians aren't quite so straightforward as Paley. They don't point to complex living mechanisms and say that they are self-evidently designed… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Contrary to what you may think, an immoral act of any kind will only lower your self-esteem. Be true to yourselves, and… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
Where do whites fit in the New Africa? Nowhere, I'm inclined to sayand I do believe that it is true that even… — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
[Remark about Calvin Coolidge she says was erroneously attributed to her:] I do wish he did not look as if he had… — Alice Roosevelt Longworth Copy Share Image
The simple equations that generate the convoluted Mandelbrot fractal have been called the wittiest remarks ever made. — John Allen Paulos Copy Share Image
Few things parallel the bonding that occurs post-performance when congratulatory remarks are awarded, regrets are confessed, and gossip is exchanged. — Kat Edmonson Copy Share Image
Which I wish to remark-- And my language is plain,-- That for ways that are dark And for tricks that are vain,… — Bret Harte Copy Share Image
I think everyone holds back. I am always censoring myself and I'm sorry about it. But I always have to consider whether… — John Hall Copy Share Image
The act the act must not be a revenge. It must be a calm, weary renunciation, a closing of accounts, a private,… — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
I do expect that the President will say something at the beginning of his remarks today, at the conversation. — Scott McClellan Copy Share Image