Reagan was extreme. Beginning of his administration, one of the first things was to call in scabs - hadn't been done for… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I have the most ill-regulated memory. It does those things which it ought not to do and leaves undone the things it… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
The things you have to do to be effective - like forming a union at a fast food joint or a telemarketing… — Boots Riley Copy Share Image
We must submit to the Will of God and kiss the hand that strikes us, for we know it is better to… — Margaret Mary Alacoque Copy Share Image
I sacrifice to the God of Beauty — the impulse to beauty in nature. Here are flowers. Here is wine spilled on… — Theodore Dreiser Copy Share Image
“I've never been able to understand 'faith' myself, nor to see how a just God could expect his creatures to pick the… — Heinlein Copy Share Image
I choose a project based on whether it feels worthwhile working on when it comes to me. But secondly I choose it… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
Inspiration is for amateurs. The rest of us just show up and get to work. If you wait around for the clouds… — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
The comparative view of the powers of the magistrates, in two remarkable instances, is alone sufficient to represent the whole system of… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
The United States cannot reshape other countries in its own image and that, with a few exceptions, its efforts to police the… — George F. Kennan Copy Share Image
It strikes me that the only reason to take apart a pocket watch, or a car engine, aside from the simple delight… — Kurt Busiek Copy Share Image
American airstrikes have targeted ISIS in Libya before. Just last fall, another ISIS leader was killed. And I'm told there are several… — Tom Bowman Copy Share Image
Slowly but surely I have been soaking Rilke up these last few months: the man, his work and his life. And that… — Etty Hillesum Copy Share Image
The primary thing when you take a sword in your hands is your intention to cut the enemy, whatever the means. Whenever… — Miyamoto Musashi Copy Share Image
God, Satan, Paradise, and Hell all vanished one day in my fifteenth year, when I quite abruptly lost my faith. ... and… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
... I did not set out to be beloved and just, only strong." 'A King can be better than that," the Prince… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
African slavery is the corner-stone of the industrial, social, and political fabric of the South; and whatever wars against it, wars against… — Laurence M. Keitt Copy Share Image
Animal abuse is rampant in the U.S., right under everyone's eyes, for the entertainment of the public. The brutal confinement and pain… — Tippi Hedren Copy Share Image
Today we are united, strong and on the move. Today we have a strong strike fund. Today we have the resources to… — James P. Hoffa Copy Share Image
I read one psychologist's theory that said, "Never strike a child in your anger." When could I strike him? When he is… — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
If a drought strikes them, animals perish--man builds irrigation canals; if a flood strikes them, animals perish--man builds dams; if a carnivorous… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
What strikes me most of all in Christian culture, which is supposed to be concerned with the rights of the weakest, is… — Dacia Maraini Copy Share Image
Rain falls on everyone, lightning strikes some. What cannot be changed is best forgotten. God made the world, and He saw that… — Mary Doria Russell Copy Share Image
Nobody knows what the cause is, though some pretend they do; it like some hidden assassin waiting to strike at you. Childless… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
Should any terrorist strike or act of war occur in which American lives are lost, we must be on guard for any… — George Takei Copy Share Image
They say that lightning never strikes in the same place twice, but the same is not true for courage. As it turns… — Kathi Appelt Copy Share Image
Carry out the republican principle of universal suffrage, or strike it from your banners and substitute 'Freedom and Power to one half… — Ernestine Rose Copy Share Image
If you do keep the faith and continue to be radical, very bad things can and do happen to you. At the… — Michael Yates Copy Share Image
The palpable sense of mystery in the desert air breeds fables, chiefly of lost treasure. ... It is a question whether it… — Mary Hunter Austin Copy Share Image
If you believe suicide will bring you peace, or at the very least just an end to everything you hate- you are… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
Be patient, my friends; time rolls rapidly away; our longing has its end. The hour will strike, who knows how soon?- when… — Friedrich Wilhelm Krummacher Copy Share Image
We do as much harm holding onto programs and people past their natural life span as we do when we employ massive… — Margaret J. Wheatley Copy Share Image
In life you are going to make mistakes, you're going to fall down, but it's the getting up that counts. Just like… — Dave Pelzer Copy Share Image
The thing that strikes you most about being a soldier in a war zone and in action to the small extent that… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
Kidney disease is a low-profile, unglamorous problem, a disease that disproportionately strikes minorities and the poor. Its celebrity spokesman is blue-collar comedian… — Virginia Postrel Copy Share Image
“When you wish for so long that you could hear something, and then suddenly, with no warning, you do, it is like… — Robert Jordan Copy Share Image
The Blood deals with what we have done, whereas the Cross deals with what we are. The Blood disposes of our sins,… — Watchman Nee Copy Share Image
I do believe I begin to grasp the nature of miracles! For would it be a miracle, if there was any reason… — Ellis Peters Copy Share Image
I'm shocked every time that I've reached so many finals or won against so many players or whatever record it is. It… — Roger Federer Copy Share Image
What strikes the historian surveying anti-Semitism worldwide over more than two millennia is its fundamental irrationality. It seems to make no sense,… — Paul Johnson Copy Share Image
