Nearly everything in the scheme of things works to dull a first-rate talent. But the worst probably is cowardice. — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
I mean, really, whatever you woke up worrying about this morning, get over it. How important in the greater scheme of things… — Ken Robinson Copy Share Image
In my paper the fact the XY was not equal to YX was very disagreeable to me. I felt this was the… — Werner Heisenberg Copy Share Image
To plan secretly, to move surreptitiously, to foil the enemy's intentions and balk his schemes, so that at last the day may… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
His name, even, is part of the marketing scheme, I mean, Thelonious Sphere Monk - how can you think of a better… — Matthew Shipp Copy Share Image
There are so many plans, so many schemes, and so many reasons why there should be neither plans nor schemes. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
At Ken Lay's funeral service the minister compared him to Dr. Martin Luther King, Junior. The difference is Dr. King had a… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
Come, weave us a scheme so I can pay them back! Stand beside me, Athena, fire me with daring, fierce as the… — Homer Copy Share Image
As president, Nixon imposed wage and price controls, created the Environmental Protection Agency, initiated race-based hiring schemes, signed SALT I with the… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
The scheme, my dear Marqs. which you propose as a precedent, to encourage the emancipation of the black people of this Country… — George Washington Copy Share Image
In the scheme of life, in emotion and loss, I responded the way I did. I lost. I shouldn't have responded that… — Mike Tyson Copy Share Image
A Day never passes without some ardent reformer or group of reformers suggesting some new government intervention, some new statist scheme to… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Most people are slow to champion love because they fear the transformation it brings into their lives. And make no mistake about… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
When everything flows into place ? washes dry tonally correct, crisp and sparkling, the light scheme is sound and the "accidentals" are… — Bill Luff Copy Share Image
To insist on one's place in the scheme of things and to live up to that place.To empower others in their reaching… — Robert Fulghum Copy Share Image
Rejection is good. Putting others ahead of self, giving things away. Success, money, power, fame, happiness, friends; any kind of pleasure -… — Tao Lin Copy Share Image
What is it? For what do you scheme? Ethine's death would weigh on you and the stain of her blood would seep… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
Literary men are being employed to praise a big business man personally, as men used to praise a king. They not only… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
It is a mistake to think of these men as visionary dreamers, playing around at Philadelphia with abstract conceptions of political theory,… — Fred Rodell Copy Share Image
He knows that after him everything will continue on much as before, except that there will be a minuscule absence, a barely… — John Banville Copy Share Image
[The healthcare bill is a] headlong rush into socialism…we will not stand for the Obama-Pelosi-Reid hijacking of our freedom and democracy so… — Michael Steele Copy Share Image
I do not mean to impugn the social justice and social expediency of the redistribution of incomes aimed at by N.I.R.A. and… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
If we could travel into the past, it's mind-boggling what would be possible. For one thing, history would become an experimental science,… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The plain fact is that education is itself a form of propaganda - a deliberate scheme to outfit the pupil, not with… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If the American public were accurately polled, I suspect the results would find Bonnie & Clyde, Bill Clinton, Ponzi Scheme scamster Bernie… — Ted Nugent Copy Share Image
I agree that we must expand opportunities for retirement saving, but we must not undermine this worthy effort with a flawed privatization… — Mary Landrieu Copy Share Image
He was a long, stripy policeman, who flowed out of his uniform at odd spots, as if Nature, setting out to make… — P. G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
Preachers at black churches are the last people left in the English-speaking world who know the schemes and tropes of classical rhetoric:… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
If the Liberal Left can create the common perception that success and failure are simple matters of 'fortune' or 'luck,' then it… — Neal Boortz Copy Share Image
Generosity is self-existing openness, complete openness. You are no longer subject to cultivating your own scheme or project. And the best way… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
But if you look at the big scheme of things, I have never failed, regardless of anything I have had to go… — Terrell Owens Copy Share Image
How I wish we could all see the cost of our choices as clearly as a price tag on items in a… — Lysa TerKeurst Copy Share Image
Development seems to have become the agenda only of government. It is seen as a scheme. That should not be the case.… — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
The Declaration of Independence has been called, with some justice, the most revolutionary document in human history, in that it placed the… — Alan Bock Copy Share Image
No people can more exactly interpret the inmost meaning of the present situation in Ireland than the American Negro. The scheme is… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
Nevertheless, no matter how much they killed themselves with work, no matter how much money they eked out, and no matter how… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
If you are well off and can afford to spend ten or twenty-five dollars a day to hire some patient soul to… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
It was always intended, though, that where Australian workers could negotiate better benefits as well with their employer, that those benefits come… — Chris Bowen Copy Share Image
A practical scheme, says Oscar Wilde, is either one already in existence, or a scheme that could be carried out under the… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
If you, however, separate reason and faith so that it's purely a rationalistic scheme, it will end in violence. If a pure… — Francis George Copy Share Image