We will have an unchallenged, open, panoramic opportunity on a global scale to demonstrate the finest aspects of what we know in… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
People talk about apathy, especially in developed countries. We're kind of lulled into these tranquil lives, and we are pursuing our own… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
The family is the corner stone of our society. More than any other force it shapes the attitude, the hopes, the ambitions,… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
Like all animals, human beings have always taken what they want from nature. But we are the rogue species. We are unique… — Edward Burtynsky Copy Share Image
Culture is the suggestion, from certain best thoughts, that a man has a range of affinities through which he can modulate the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Most 20th century academic physicists, and academia as a whole, simply did not want to touch the subject of consciousness. We have… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
I have been using the computer as a work aid since the mid-90's. It is extraordinarily well suited to how I think… — Michael Craig-Martin Copy Share Image
It is a rare man who can prevail in the face of comfort. Freedom is fragile and elusive, for rarely does the… — Terry Rossio Copy Share Image
If we can think about not the object, but the process of creating the object, in short, we have no constraints. We… — Michael Hansmeyer Copy Share Image
We have those new environments [during Kung Fu Panda 3] that give a scale to the movie, that are the spirit realm… — Jennifer Yuh Nelson Copy Share Image
I knew, as everyone knows, that the easiest way to attract a crowd is to let it be known that at a… — Harry Houdini Copy Share Image
Each moss, Each shell, each drawling insect, holds a rank Important in the plan of Him who fram'd This scale of beings;… — Benjamin Stillingfleet Copy Share Image
Nowhere in space will we rest our eyes upon the familiar shapes of trees and plants, or any of the animals that… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
We aren't lazy, overweight models. We work out and must maintain proportionate bodies for work. Plus models are curvy and fit. Don't… — Liris Crosse Copy Share Image
If you establish, or reestablish, local economies on the right scale and with the right standard, then politics would come right as… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
I've refined it since [ was living in Beaumont, Texas], but I was just obsessed with the guitar. I remember one day… — Steve Young Copy Share Image
I'm a natural piano player. So all the practicing I do at this point is in my head. If I don't play… — Harry Connick, Jr Copy Share Image
If the bones of all those who have fallen as a prey to intemperance could be piled up it would make a… — Thomas De Witt Talmage Copy Share Image
...I'm no longer the scales most lovers are, weighing the deeds and gifts and treasures proffered against those received or stolen from… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Nonviolent Peaceforce ...is building a large-scale professional force of well-trained unarmed peacekeepers ... This nonviolent peacekeeping provides an alternative to which we… — Mel Duncan Copy Share Image
Alas! we know that ideals can never be completely embodied in practice. Ideals must ever lie a great way off--and we will… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
The sudden and abrupt deletion of all individuals occupying the lower bands of the Tone Scale from the social order would result… — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
God does not weigh criminality in our scales. We have one absolute, with the seal of authority upon it; and with us… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
The major problem of our time is the decay in the belief in personal immortality, and it cannot be dealt with while… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Professional critics are incapable of distinguishing and appreciating either diamonds in the rough or gold in bars. They are traders, and in… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
Banks operate like a man who either wears his trousers round his chest, stifling breathing, as now, or round his ankles, exposing… — Vince Cable Copy Share Image
I've done a great job at being universal in my stand-up, which is why, for 'Let Me Explain,' I toured all over… — Kevin Hart Copy Share Image
Places matter. Their rules, their scale, their design include or exclude civil society, pedestrianism, equality, diversity (economic and otherwise), understanding of where… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
I have never understood, for example, how come a child can climb up on the roof, scale the TV antenna, and rescue… — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
I realized early on, maybe better than some of my competitors did, that a textile business can run only if you have… — Mian Muhammad Mansha Copy Share Image
Thirty, 40 years ago, more than that now, even, the cook was certainly at the bottom of the social scale. And any… — Jacques Pepin Copy Share Image
We could say that compassion is the ultimate attitude of wealth: an anti-poverty attitude, a war on want. It contains all sorts… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
Truly, a command of gall cannot be obeyed like one of sugar. A man must require just and reasonable things; if he… — Giambattista Basile Copy Share Image
And I watch all the dailies and I grade the jokes or the moments, you know, on a scale from... so I… — Nicholas Stoller Copy Share Image
I'm also interviewing a guy who's just written a book about his experience living in Iraq, faced with the type of violence… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
The proper goal of an economic democracy agenda is to replace the global suicide economy ruled by rapacious and unaccountable global corporations… — David Korten Copy Share Image
If the present tax rates had been in effect from the beginning of our century, many who are millionaires today would live… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Native people - about two-thirds of the uranium in the United States is on indigenous lands. On a worldwide scale, about 70… — Winona LaDuke Copy Share Image
Occasionally, there are battles in the sky. One likes to imagine the angels are always triumphant. One does not like to think… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
Twenty miles on, we have spotted a roadside sign: 'CHAINSAW CARVED MUSHROOMS'. Troubles promptly forgotten, Stuart falls to gawping at the road… — Alexander Masters Copy Share Image