Carter's hopes died when the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan and he ended up having to reverse policy and launch the military buildup… — Walter Russell Mead Copy Share Image
Nowadays I’m really cranky about comics. Because most of them are just really, really poorly written soft-core. And I miss good old… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
We make up any excuse to preserve myths about people we love, but the reverse is also true; if we dislike an… — Marlon Brando Copy Share Image
A weapon based on Time . . ." mused Viktor Mulciber. "Well, why not? The one force no one knows how to… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
In describing today's accelerating changes, the media fire blips of unrelated information at us. Experts bury us under mountains of narrowly specialized… — Alvin Toffler Copy Share Image
India profoundly changed my outlook on life because you see how people can be content and very happy with little or even… — Gary Wright Copy Share Image
I don't like reverse-angle shots - I find them very fake and very untruthful to the viewer. — Abbas Kiarostami Copy Share Image
In surveys, many borrowers say reverse mortgages have improved their lives and provided money they needed for retirement. — Charles Duhigg Copy Share Image
A good engineer thinks in reverse and asks himself about the stylistic consequences of the components and systems he proposes. — Helmut Jahn Copy Share Image
The issues which today confront the nation are clearly defined and so fundamental as to directly involve the very survival of the… — Douglas MacArthur Copy Share Image
You can say I had a severe case of 'Roots' envy. I wanted to be like Alex Haley, and I wanted to… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
It will be very interesting one day to follow the pattern of our life as it is spread out like a beautiful… — Maria von Trapp Copy Share Image
In 1917 - as we have seen, - Italy suffered a great reverse, losing 200,000 soldiers and immense supplies. — Kelly Miller Copy Share Image
The science of constructing a commonwealth or renovating it, or reforming it, is...not to be taught a priori...That which in the first… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
A prudent mind can see room for misgiving, lest he who prospers should one day suffer reverse. — Sophocles Copy Share Image
Gods? Don't let that impress you. Anyone can be a god if they have enough worshippers. You don't even have to have… — Joanne Harris Copy Share Image
I've been a fan of movies longer than anything else. One thing I learned a long time ago is that you can't… — Andrew Stanton Copy Share Image
There is a safe, nontoxic drug called naloxone that can instantly reverse opioid overdose and prevent most of these deaths. But the… — Maia Szalavitz Copy Share Image
To live fully, outwardly and inwardly, not to ignore the external reality for the sake of the inner life, or the reverse,… — Etty Hillesum Copy Share Image
Tolkien seems to me reactionary, conservative, fearful of a modern world. Fearful of anything that isn't sanctioned by the passage of long… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
People who can comfort the dead can also chase after them to hurt them further-a reverse ancestor worship. — Maxine Hong Kingston Copy Share Image
Character gives us qualities, but it is in actions - what we do - that we are happy or the reverse. ...… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Ultimately, in the Internet, openness has always won. I cannot imagine that the current competitive environment would reverse that. — Eric Schmidt Copy Share Image
