No matter what anyone says, suicide takes guts. It's for heroes and martyrs, truly vainglorious men. Archie was none of these. He… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
You may be trying to attain power in this world, then you start trying to attain power in that world. First you… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Such is the pleasure of projecting that many content themselves with a succession of visionary schemes, and wear out their allotted time… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I want to ensure and the Government wants to ensure that Australia is well prepared to tackle dangerous climate change with a… — Wayne Swan Copy Share Image
We must not leap to the fatalistic conclusion that we are stuck with the conceptual scheme that we grew up in. We… — Willard Van Orman Quine Copy Share Image
The real security of Christianity is to be found in its benevolent morality, in its exquisite adaptation to the human heart, in… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
The gas-cylinders had by this time been put into position on the front line. A special order came round imposing severe penalties… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
As I get older, I think that things have been pre-determined for me, whether I liked it or wanted it, wished for… — Robert De Niro Copy Share Image
Los Angeles was a place after my own heart. The people were hospitable. The country had the same attraction for me that… — William Mulholland Copy Share Image
In my acquaintance with John Rawls, I found him to be a simple and honest man, who just by chance also happened… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
Men speak of blind destiny, a thing without scheme or purpose. But what sort of destiny is that? Each act in this… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
A feller's glad to be a friend, Out fishin'. A helpin' hand he'll always lend, Out fishin' The brotherhood of rod and… — Edgar Guest Copy Share Image
In placid hours well-pleased we dream Of many a brave unbodied scheme. But form to lend, pulsed life create, What unlike things… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
How extraordinary was my life an incident may illustrate... [As a youth] I was fascinated by a description of Niagara Falls. I… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
Prayer is far-reaching in its influence and worldwide in its effects. It affects all men, affects them everywhere, and affects them in… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
He felt all the torment of his and her position, all the difficulties they were surrounded by in consequence of their station… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
How do men feel whose whole lives (and many men's lives are) are lies, schemes, and subterfuges? What sort of company do… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
Memory weaves and traps us at the same time according to a scheme in which we do not participate: we should never… — Julio Cortazar Copy Share Image
The welfare state is predicate don collecting money from today's workers in order to pay for those who paid in before them.… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
On the other hand, all kinds of adventurous schemes to add security checkpoints to subway and bus systems have been circulating since… — Otto Schily Copy Share Image
If any student of social science comes to appreciate the case of the Forgotten Man, he will become an unflinching advocate of… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
I like eating out. I like buying beautiful paintings and being surrounded by beautiful things. I have to finance that life. I… — Andrew Motion Copy Share Image
Robert M. Morgenthau, the Manhattan district attorney, has seen a few financial schemes in his time. As the lead local prosecutor in… — Alex Berenson Copy Share Image
Now I'm having to live with sales of around 50,000 per album - but I'm pretty content with my place in the… — David Knopfler Copy Share Image
Time is a big enemy. Companies have a tendency to drift and to do what was successful yesterday. CEOs need to set… — Michael J. Silverstein Copy Share Image
Life can be confusing. Good God, and how. Sometimes it seems like the older I get, the more confused I become. That… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
Every intellectual revolution which has ever stirred humanity into greatness has been a passionate protest against inert ideas. Then, alas, with pathetic… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Faith in the possibilities of continued and rigorous inquiry does not limit access to truth to any channel or scheme of things.… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Anytime you and I question the schemes of the do-gooders, we're denounced as being against their humanitarian goals. They say we're always… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
I tried to explain to her the significance of the great poet, but without much success, The Waste Land not figuring very… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
The forces which are working out the great scheme of perfect happiness, taking no account of incidental suffering, exterminate such sections of… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
I, in my own mind, have always thought of America as a place in the divine scheme of things that was set… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Many individuals and organization units contribute to every large decision, and the very problem of centralization and decentralization is a problem of… — Herbert Simon Copy Share Image
You cannot choose between party government and Parliamentary government. I say you can have no Parliamentary government if you have no party… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
Men have gone on to build up vast intellectual schemes, philosophies, and theologies, to prove that ideals are not real as ideals… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
No woman ever yet either reasoned or acted long together consequentially; but some little thing, some love, some resentment, somepresent momentary interest,… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
When I go back to the core of my childhood, my cousin Lucy seems always to be in the peripheral vision of… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
If, with all the time at my disposal, with all the wealth of the resources of this vast universe, to do with… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
It is much more difficult to get implemented politically what might be desirable economically. Even if you came out with an economic… — James M. Buchanan Copy Share Image
I object to being told that I am saving daylight when my reason tells me that I am doing nothing of the… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
![“How extraordinary was my life an incident may illustrate... [As a youth] I was fascinated by a description of Niagara Falls. I had perused, and pictured in my imagination a big wheel run by the Falls. I told my uncle that I would go to America and carry out this scheme. Thirty years later I saw my…” quote by Nikola Tesla](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/5e1/nikola-tesla-1383_america_how-extraordinary-was-my-life-an-inciden_276209.jpg)
