These kinds of tragedies [like shooting in Fort Lauderdale] have happened too often during the eight years that I've been president. The… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I believe, when in my behavior or in relationships or in the way I react to something, that I'm still dealing with… — Joyce Meyer Copy Share Image
For example, an author whose parents fled a war but he himself was born in the country where they fled to, and… — Sasa Stanisic Copy Share Image
Listen- all that she was then, all that she is now, those gestures, everything I remember but won't or can't articulate anymore,… — Elliot Perlman Copy Share Image
The strategy we've adopted precludes our following standard diversification dogma. Many pundits would therefore say the strategy must be riskier than that… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Eratosthenes was the director of the great library of Alexandria, the Centre of science and learning in the ancient world. Aristotle had… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
One thing we haven't mentioned is something everyone should understand very clearly. Look at the budget that was invested in 'Avatar': who… — Jackie Chan Copy Share Image
People must have renounced, it seems to me, all natural intelligence to dare to advance that animals are but animated machines.... It… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Women are in bondage; their clothes are a great hindrance to their engaging in any business which will make them pecuniarily independent,… — Lucy Stone Copy Share Image
A smile flickered across Coral’s face. “Have you ever noticed that once you have had a taste of certain sweets—raspberry trifle is… — Elizabeth Hoyt Copy Share Image
The real questions for parents should be: "Are you engaged? Are you paying attention?" If so, plan to make lots of mistakes… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
What is it that is done to our children that their puberty should deform them? They have the joy of movement; they… — Kurt Hahn Copy Share Image
There's probably more of a struggle to get material and narratives published that really speak to black culture. And that has a… — Jerry Pinkney Copy Share Image
The advantage of pure, and the disadvantage of impure air are experienced each time we breathe, and all who understand the causes… — Robert Owen Copy Share Image
In the 1960s, various parts of the population became energized and began to enter the public arena to call for the rights… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
People who underestimate their capabilities also bear costs, although, as already noted, these are more likely to take self-limiting rather than aversive… — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
Once a price move exceeds its median historical age, any method you use to analyze the market, whether it be fundamental or… — Victor Sperandeo Copy Share Image
What are the hallmarks of a competent writer of fiction? The first, it seems to me, is that he should be immensely… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
That's Collin."She panicked."He can't see you!" Don't tell me you're afraid of your own brother?"Staton seemed to think that was funny.She hated… — Lynne Ewing Copy Share Image
The growth of entrepreneurial classes throughout the world is an asset in the promotion of human rights and individual liberty, and it… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
I'm not saying I'm going to rule the world, I'm going to change the world. But I guarantee I will spark the… — Tupac Shakur Copy Share Image
I had not seen "Pride and Prejudice," till I read that sentence of yours, and then I got the book. And what… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
To be misunderstood even by those whom one loves is the cross and bitterness of life. It is the secret of that… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
It is a pity to make a mystery out of what should most easily be understood. There is nothing occult about the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Hope is not a lottery ticket you can sit on the sofa and clutch, feeling lucky. It is an axe you break… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
We're told cars are wasteful. Wasteful of what? Oil did a lot of good sitting in the ground for millions of years.… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
No man should be viewed as having more to offer the world than another. We are all equals and every human being… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
When prayer, rituals and ascetic life are just a means of self-indulgence, they are harmful rather than beneficial. This is quite obvious… — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
Kids should be taught about sex, sex hygiene and contraceptive methods starting in the sixth grade, and whenever they want to try… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
The man who has successfully solved the problem of his relations with the two worlds of data and symbols is a man… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Are the great spiritual teachings really advocating that we fight evil because we are on the side of light, the side of… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
We are on the brink of a new energy order. Over the next few decades, our reserves of oil will start to… — Fatih Birol Copy Share Image
“Your wickedness makes you as it were heavy as lead, and to tend downwards with great weight and pressure towards hell; and… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
The reason why the simpler sort are moved with authority, is the consciousness of their own ignorance; whereby it cometh to pass… — Richard Hooker Copy Share Image
Everybody should read fiction… I don’t think serious fiction is written for a few people. I think we live in a stupid… — Percival Everett Copy Share Image
In theory we understand people, but in practice we can't put up with them, I thought, deal with them for the most… — Thomas Bernhard Copy Share Image
About halfway through I broke down crying, which I hadn't expected. I was a little ashamed, but only a little;it was her,… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
We [with Shindzo Abe] should understand that the results of that terrible tragedy of the 20th century, namely World War II, are… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
What do you mean I have a predetermined death?” – Nick “Did I stutter?” – Death “No.” – Nick “Do I look… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
There are a few investment managers, of course, who are very good - though in the short run, it's difficult to determine… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image