The planet is populated by human beings, of which there are only two sexes, and the role of the writer is to… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
Sadly the very thing that strikes us as obvious always defeats our thinking about it in more penetrating ways: just as the… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
Trade protection accumulates upon a single point the good which it effects, while the evil inflicted is infused throughout the mass. The… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
I always carry a notepad with me, even on vacation. If I'm on the computer when the story 'hits', I open a… — Franny Armstrong Copy Share Image
It is certain that there is no other passion which does produce such contrary effects in so great a degree. But this… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Human nature will not flourish, any more than a potato, if it be planted and replanted, for too long a series of… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
When you've got an extra gear in your head where that's all you do, you've constantly got a little radar up. ...… — Toby Keith Copy Share Image
I never plan ahead, with the exception of the Amber books which had to proceed in sequence. But I don't really like… — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
The government gives them the drugs, builds bigger prisons, passes a three-strike law and then wants us to sing "God Bless America."… — Jeremiah Wright Copy Share Image
But, did the Divinity [of Christ] suffer? [...] The holy fathers explained this point through the aforementioned clear example of the red-hot… — Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria Copy Share Image
I oppose U.S. military intervention in Iraq. I believe that we should not send troops or engage in air strikes-our nation's military… — Janice Hahn Copy Share Image
When you love someone, truly love them, you lay your heart open to them. You give them a part of yourself that… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
I realize anew that, just as we must learn to obey God one choice at a time, we must also learn to… — Jerry Bridges Copy Share Image
While it may not heighten our sympathy, wit widens our horizons by its flashes, revealing remote hidden affiliations and drawing laughter from… — Marie Taylor Collins Swabey Copy Share Image
This Government, as promised, has maintained the closest surveillance of the Soviet Military buildup on the island of Cuba. Within the past… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
I would let the military commanders give the commander in chief options rather than tell them what you want to hear. Not… — Jeb Bush Copy Share Image
The firing on that fort will inaugurate a civil war greater than any the world has yet seen…you will lose us every… — Robert Toombs Copy Share Image
When I was in my early twenties I was doing tenant organizing - rent strikes, specifically - in my building. I think… — Eric Drooker Copy Share Image
Depressions, local and larger strikes, boom times, wars, repressions, all impact a life as do epidemics such as AIDS and pollution that… — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
Inflationary trends are under way. Wage increases, through strikes or threatened strikes, are rampant. Government expenditures are ballooning ominously. Hoarding has contributed… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
I hope that other women can benefit from my experience. Cancer is still a word that strikes fear into people’s hearts, producing… — Angelina Jolie Copy Share Image
The story is the only thing that's important. Everything else will take care of itself. It's like what bowlers say. You hear… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
'Participant' is the incontrovertible new concept given by quantum mechanics. It strikes down the 'observer' of classical theory, the man who stands… — John Archibald Wheeler Copy Share Image
Tom Stafford was an odd character, you know - a brilliant guy. He looked weird and I think he took a really… — Donnie Fritts Copy Share Image
Remember that in any major nuclear war, the first strike destroys the country that attacks; it's been known for years. The first… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
They enter, locking themselves in, descend the rugged steps, and are down in the Crypt. The lantern is not wanted, for the… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“I divested myself of despair and fear when I came here. Now there is no more catching one's own eye in the… — Jane Kenyon Copy Share Image
I like pacifists and people who have a heavy emotional identification with deathism and war would probably call me a pacifist, but… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
There is something that governments care for more than human life, and that is the security of property, and so it is… — Emmeline Pankhurst Copy Share Image
If you're a pitcher, and you're pitching and you strike me out and you start celebrating on the mound and showing me… — Bengie Molina Copy Share Image
Words of divine consciousness: moral exaltation; lasting feelings of elevation, elation, joy; a quickening of the moral sense, which strikes one as… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
It is from the numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
The seen and seeing softly mutually strike Their glass barrier that arrests the sight. But the world's being hides in the volcanoes… — Stephen Spender Copy Share Image
I remember the Chillicothe ballplayers grappling the Long Island ball players in a sixteen-inning game ended by darkness. And the shoulders of… — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
Wages? You want to be wage slaves? Answer me that! Of course not. What is it that makes wage slaves? Wages! I… — Groucho Marx Copy Share Image
It is a poor thing to strike our colors to God when the ship is going down under us; a poor thing… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
One may well find oneself beginning to doubt whether all this could conceivably be the product of an enormous lottery presided over… — Jacques Monod Copy Share Image
To you who hear I say, love your enemies,do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you,pray for those… — Luke the Evangelist Copy Share Image
I fully support President Bush's decision to strike Al Qaeda's terrorist network. Now more than ever, we must stand united as a… — Tom Harkin Copy Share Image
Thus, cases of injustice, and oppression, and tyranny, and the most extravagant bigotry, are in constant occurrence among us every day. It… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image