There is no question that chemical weapons attacks are a heinous abuse of humanity and power. But to assume that military strikes… — Basmah bint Saud Copy Share Image
I've never been able to force a novel. I always had the sense something being given to me. You can't sit around… — Margaret Laurence Copy Share Image
During the writer's strike I was walking a line and ran into Jack Black and he said,'We're doing Airborne 2!', and I… — Seth Green Copy Share Image
The hardest thing is to endure the applause of fools, and patiently suffer the booing, while with the bravissimo of the foolish… — Carl Maria von Weber Copy Share Image
Imagine a man who stands before a mirror; a stone strikes it, and it falls to ruin all in an instant. And… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
It's funny how I use social media because I don't use it to promote my restaurants that much. I use it for… — Tom Colicchio Copy Share Image
It strikes me as unfair, and even in bad taste, to select a few of them for boundless admiration, attributing superhuman powers… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
There are a lot of things that I really question - the legality of the drone strikes, these NSA revelations. Jimmy Carter… — Matt Damon Copy Share Image
The First thing that strikes a traveler in the United States is the innumerable multitude of those who seek to emerge from… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
There are people who are willing to suffer and swallow their tears at leisure, and God will not doubt reward them in… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
One thing we may be sure of, however: For the believer all pain has meaning; all adversity is profitable. There is no… — Jerry Bridges Copy Share Image
It goes against the American storytelling grain to have someone in a situation he can't get out of, but I think this… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
When traveling, I usually keep a notebook: when home at my desk, the notebook serves mainly to remind me how little I… — Jonathan Raban Copy Share Image
Nature seems to delight in disappointing the assuduities of art, with which it would rear dulness to maturity, and to glory in… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
Regular crises perpetuate the past by reinvigorating cycles which started long ago. In contrast, (capital-C) Crises are the past's death knell. They… — Yanis Varoufakis Copy Share Image
Caterpillar was quite important because that was the first manufacturing industry that used Reaganite strike-breaking techniques. They illegally called in scabs to… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
We will go to every part of Tamil Nadu and tell the people that Hindi is coming and that it is like… — C. N. Annadurai Copy Share Image
There are black zones of shadow close to our daily paths, and now and then some evil soul breaks a passage through.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The secret of the difficulties of those people who make a great deal of money, and yet are always in want of… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Hostess Bakery plants shut down due to a workers' strike. It was split up. The State Department hired all the Twinkies, the… — Argus Hamilton Copy Share Image
It was a basic plot in any number of her books: girl strikes out, makes good, finds love, gets revenge. In that… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
It strikes me that whatever advantages there are to being a boy--getting to stay out late and having other people wash your… — Mary Karr Copy Share Image
I believe in the absolute and unlimited liberty of reading. I believe in wandering through the stacks and picking out the first… — Rick Moody Copy Share Image
The result is that you are now experiencing what we experienced in the war in Algeria: The Israeli government says that it… — Jean-Marie Le Pen Copy Share Image
It really strikes me how much of your energy in America, especially if you're from a working back-ground, is spent just keeping… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Teaching 23-year-olds in an MBA programme strikes me as largely a waste of time. They lack the background of experience. You can… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Who sings of all of Love's eternity Who shines so bright In all the songs of Love's unending spells? Holy lightning strikes… — Jon Anderson Copy Share Image
I've been active in a minor way compared to professional activists. I was a labor leader. I led two labor strikes. I've… — Gerald Stern Copy Share Image
One must never compromise with tyrants. One can only strike at kings through the head. Nothing can be expected from European kings… — Georges Danton Copy Share Image
Legislative proposals that would enable an employer to determine whether or not a woman's insurance would cover the cost of birth control… — Madeleine M. Kunin Copy Share Image
Everything I see about me is sowing the seeds of a revolution that is inevitable, though I shall not have the pleasure… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Some things just strike me as funny. The way things play out just makes me laugh sometimes. It drives my wife crazy… — W. Kamau Bell Copy Share Image
It's unclear how air strikes on our part can succeed unless the Iraqi army is willing to fight, and that's uncertain given… — Carl Levin Copy Share Image
In America, we're getting too comfortable with our ability to take kinetic strikes around the world without having enough process to avoid… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
No might nor greatness in mortality Can censure 'scape; back- wounding calumny The whitest virtue strikes. What king so strong Can tie… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Sleeping people are so remote… Right here, but out of communication. That's what strikes humans as uncanny about sleep. Its utter privacy.… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
The only thing workers have to bargain with is their skill or their labor. Denied the right to withhold it as a… — Paul Clark Copy Share Image
The secret is to throw yourself into the water of life again and again, not to hang back, no reservations, risk everything,… — Arshile Gorky Copy Share Image
When [Steven Lerner] says that unions and so forth are "dead," he's talking about clout. He's talking about power. But "community organizations,"… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Different things just strike people differently. And it's so subjective, too. Because what makes one person laugh won't make others laugh. I… — Steve Carell Copy Share Image