Ascend, my brothers, ascend eagerly. Let your hearts' resolve be to climb. Listen to the voice of the one who says: 'Come,… — John Climacus Copy Share Image
A fatal defect in majority rule is that by its very nature it abolishes itself. Majority rule must inevitably become minority rule:… — Mary Parker Follett Copy Share Image
Disciplined runners consistently clear their heads and focus fully on the journey ahead.. .because their passion and zeal for the goal supersedes… — Priscilla Shirer Copy Share Image
Every time I asked a question, that magnificent teacher, instead of giving the answer, showed me how to find it. She taught… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
Of course, it is likely enough, my friends,' he said slowly, 'likely enough that we are going to our doom: the last… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Treasury plan is a disgrace: a bailout of reckless bankers, lenders and investors that provides little direct debt relief to borrowers… — Nouriel Roubini Copy Share Image
Diplomats operate through deadlock, which is the way by which two sides can test each other's determination. Even if they have egos… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
Most of the problems with the bodies and minds of the folks occupying the current culture involve an unwillingness to do anything… — Mark Rippetoe Copy Share Image
At some point, deliberation begins to look more like indecisiveness which then becomes a way of emboldening our enemies and allies and… — Rahm Emanuel Copy Share Image
Ronald Reagan was one of our great foreign policy Presidents. He did not come from the Senate. He did not come from… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
Americans coming home, an Iran that has rolled back its nuclear program and accepted unprecedented monitoring of the program -these things are… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
If you overesteem great men, people become powerless. If you overvalue possessions, people begin to steal. The Master leads by emptying people's… — Laozi Copy Share Image
One who aspires to greatness should read and study, pursuing the True Way with such a firm resolve that he is perfectly… — Yoshida Shoin Copy Share Image
If the grim realities you are facing at this time seem dark and heavy and almost unbearable, remember that in the soul-wrenching… — Quentin L. Cook Copy Share Image
I am the celebrity spokesperson for Resolve, the national infertility association, and my three precious children were born through infertility procedures. I… — Cindy Margolis Copy Share Image
There’s only one Earth, and it’s tiny, but evil human leaders avoid problems they don’t want to resolve by giving them names… — Craig Stone Copy Share Image
When I used to teach civil procedure as a law professor, I would begin the year by telling my students that 'civil… — Anne-Marie Slaughter Copy Share Image
It felt to me like America was always wanting to resolve things too quickly, without thinking through what the costs and consequences… — Robert Redford Copy Share Image
It is impossible to repristinate a past world picture by sheer resolve, especially a mythical world picture, now that all of our… — Rudolf Bultmann Copy Share Image
As a writer, I've always believed that while my work and I myself are embedded in whatever period I am writing about,… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
I witness the reality and divinity of our Eternal Father, of His Only Begotten Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, and of the… — David A. Bednar Copy Share Image
Every thing useful and beneficial to man, seems to be connected with obedience to the laws of his nature, the inclinations, the… — Samuel Williams Copy Share Image
We know of no spectacle more ridiculous—or more contemptible—than that of the religious reactionaries who dare to re-write the history of our… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
We need not resolve the difficult question of when life begins. When those trained in the respective disciplines of medicine, philosophy, and… — Harry A. Blackmun Copy Share Image
At some thoughts one stands perplexed - especially at the sight of men's sin - and wonders whether one should use force… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's always a problem, getting the curtain in at the end of the first act; having enough of a resolve so that… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
“Irony is about contradictions that do not resolve into larger wholes, even dialectically, about the tension of holding incompatible things together because… — Donna J. Haraway Copy Share Image
An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man; as, monachism of the Hermit Anthony, the Reformation of Luther, Quakerism of Fox,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Most Christians who've been around for a while have their Story in bits and pieces, but have never seen how powerful it… — Greg Koukl Copy Share Image
I rather shared Nietzsche's conception of the kind of individual that an ideal education should be cultivating. 'Authenticity' is not Nietzsche's term,… — David E. Cooper Copy Share Image
After all, in supporting phenomenal concepts I am in a sense siding with introspection against the more behaviourist Wittgensteinians. But even so… — David Papineau Copy Share Image
Unless this [Barack Obama] American administration is willing to diverge from the conventional American policy in the Middle East by changing its… — Ilan Pappe Copy Share Image
Men, to act with vigour and effect, must have time to mature measures, and judgment and experience, as to the best method… — Joseph Story Copy Share Image
I never liked jazz music because jazz music doesn't resolve. But I was outside the Bagdad Theater in Portland one night when… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
I commended Angela [Merkel] for her leadership along with President Hollande in working to resolve the conflict in Ukraine. We continued to… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
You are here to step into the shoes of UN ambassadors - to draft resolutions, to plot strategy, to negotiate with your… — Ban Ki-moon Copy Share Image
Where no man thinks himself under any obligation to submit to another, and, instead of co-operating in one great scheme, every one… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The new year on which we are about to enter is unopened, and we know not what shall befall us; but if… — J.R. Miller Copy Share Image
Since 1981, after our nations severed diplomatic relations, we've worked through a international tribunal to resolve various claims between our countries. The… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
"Where there is a will there is a way" is an old true saying. He who resolves upon doing a thing, by… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image