Of all the ills that our poor ... society is heir to, the focal one, it seems to me, from which so… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
The rest of the journey passed uneventfully, if you consider it uneventful to ride fifteen miles on horseback through rough country at… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
“To train a citizen is to train a critic. The whole point of education is that it should give a man abstract… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
It's pretty standard fare in political discourse. You misconstrue what somebody said. You isolate a statement, you lend your interpretation to it… — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
As far as natural calamities are concerned, Odisha had a very bad reputation before 2000 when we took over the government. After… — Naveen Patnaik Copy Share Image
Liberty requires opportunity to make a living--a living decent according to the standard of the time, a living which gives a man… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I am a believer in women, in their ability to do things and in their influence and power. Women set the standards… — Nellie L. McClung Copy Share Image
My theory on literature is an author who does not indulge in trashiness-writes about people you could introduce into your own home...he… — Booth Tarkington Copy Share Image
I am not a music snob. If anything, my musical taste is bad by any critical standards. — Michael Ian Black Copy Share Image
The legal system doesn't always serve as a good guide for your conscience. You can step way over the ethical line and… — Price Pritchett Copy Share Image
A lot of these so-called left positions are actually centrist by the standards of the American people, just not by members of… — Pete Buttigieg Copy Share Image
While a painting, even one that meets photographic standards of resemblance, is never more than the stating of an interpretation, a photograph… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
My dad was a composer and a musician, but he never finished high school. His formal education was rather minimal from the… — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
Discretion, like the hole in a doughnut, does not exist except as an area left open by a surrounding belt of restriction.… — Ronald Dworkin Copy Share Image
It makes little sense to spend a month teaching decimal fractions to fourth-grade pupils when they can be taught in a week,… — David Elkind Copy Share Image
I am a Christian according to my conscience in belief,in purpose and wish;Mnot of course by the orthodox standard. But I am… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
The reason there are outlaws is they don't like to adopt standards They like to do things their way. — Johnny Paycheck Copy Share Image
You cannot choose your battlefield, God does that for you. But you can plant a standard where a standard never flew. — Nathalia Crane Copy Share Image
It is comfortable to see the standard of reason at length erected, after so many ages, during which the human mind has… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Jesus did not die for pastors to have a well paid job. Neither was He raised on the cross just to raise… — Reinhard Bonnke Copy Share Image
In scientific matters there was a common language and one standard of values; in moral and political problems there were many. …… — Emilio G. Segre Copy Share Image
The right to dissent is the only thing that makes life tolerable for a judge of an appellate court... the affairs of… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
Steve held us to a high standard. He told us he was going to when we first met him at the USA… — Klay Thompson Copy Share Image
The choice of personnel, perhaps the most important choice (because 'people are policy'), never proceeds according to plan, but there have been… — Richard V. Allen Copy Share Image
You can take a school like the University of Colorado, with a selective admission standard. It has a better caliber student going… — Roy Romer Copy Share Image
