To the Greeks, the supreme function of music was to "praise the gods and educate the youth". In Egypt... Initiatory music was… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
When a bunch of stuff is happening on set, you have to remember the grander purpose: you're telling a story, so you… — Taron Egerton Copy Share Image
Could Congress really do its work if it held its sessions by teleconferencing? Could the Supreme Court? Nothing can replace the spark… — Ben Stein Copy Share Image
Hitler is still such a popular man; we are afraid of the Hitler myth. We want to give to the German people… — Walther von Brauchitsch Copy Share Image
If it's a close election, then it's better for the Supreme Court to pick the president, whether or not he won the… — Vincent Bugliosi Copy Share Image
Our lawyers had their chat with the Supreme Court Justice, and promised to repast the chat to other members of the Supreme… — Dashiell Hammett Copy Share Image
“The supreme art is the art of being happy with the simplest things and the greatest artist is the person who performs… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
Here even the various mind-pleasing blossoming flowers, and attractive shining supreme golden houses, have no inherently existent maker at all. They are… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Women decide the larger questions of life correctly and quickly, not because they are lucky guessers, not because they are divinely inspired,… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
In my opinion, Chief Justice Roberts put it best during his recent confirmation hearings. And he said, and I quote, "The framers… — Mike DeWine Copy Share Image
Sometimes, if we are faced with obstacles, be they tangible or not, such as jealousy, worldly sentiment, greed, hatred or obsession, etc.,… — Ching Hai Copy Share Image
How then shall mathematical concepts be judged? They shall not be judged. Mathematics is the supreme arbiter. From its decisions there is… — David van Dantzig Copy Share Image
In my childhood, and particularly when I take the responsibility, I already have sort of keen desire, we must change our system.… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Something is wrong. War, disease, death, destruction, hunger, filth, poverty, crime, torture, corruption and the ice capades. If this is the best… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
For people raised and programmed on the patriarchal religions of today, religions that affect even the most secular aspects of our society,… — Merlin Stone Copy Share Image
The root cause of abortion is the failure to be satisfied in God as our supreme love. And, for all the great… — John Piper Copy Share Image
I find it discouraging - and a bit depressing - when I notice the unequal treatment afforded by the media to UFO… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
The Supreme Court has said that America is a Christian nation. But to make such a statement today causes reporters, newsmen, and… — D. James Kennedy Copy Share Image
In the Eucharist, the Son of God comes to meet us and desires to become one with us; eucharistic adoration is simply… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
The desire for truth is the highest of all desires, yet, it is still a desire. All desires must be given up… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
When God becomes a Man and lives as a creature among His own creatures in Palestine, then indeed His life is one… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Watch out Mr. Bush! With the exception of economic policy and energy policy and social issues and tax policy and foreign policy… — Tom Toles Copy Share Image
The Supreme Court of Canada has given prisoners the "right" to vote. Is it not time that non-jailed citizens were given reciprocity… — Brian Day Copy Share Image
Nominees [to Supreme Court] shouldn't be expected to pre-commit to ruling on certain issues in a certain way. Nor should senators ask… — Chuck Grassley Copy Share Image
Marriage -- yes, it is the supreme felicity of life. I concede it. And it is also the supreme tragedy of life.… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Supreme egotism and utter seriousness are necessary for the greatest accomplishment, and these the Irish find hard to sustain; at some point,… — William V. Shannon Copy Share Image
Duty itself is supreme delight when love is the inducement and labor. By such a principle the ignorant are enlightened, the hard-hearted… — Hosea Ballou Copy Share Image
The grove is the centre of their whole religion. It is regarded as the cradle of the race and the dwelling-place of… — Tacitus Copy Share Image
that pathetic short-cut suggested by Nature the supreme joker as a remedy for our loneliness, that ephemeral communion which we persuade ourselves… — Vita Sackville-West Copy Share Image
What is the universe? Is it a great 3D movie in which we are the unwilling actors? Is it a cosmic joke,… — Heinz Pagels Copy Share Image
It urges policy makers and the Supreme Court to make the mistake of curing what could prove to be an isolated problem… — John Yoo Copy Share Image
[On Cantor's work:] The finest product of mathematical genius and one of the supreme achievements of purely intellectual human activity. — David Hilbert Copy Share Image
Once the Supreme Court in 1973 decided that infanticide could be legal, it not only ended Americas inalienable right to life, it… — Michael Moriarty Copy Share Image
Perhaps the most striking assault on the foundations of traditional liberties is a little-known case brought to the Supreme Court by the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think your life and mine are under the protection of some supreme being or fate , because, after many years… — George S. Patton Copy Share Image
In 2006, I argued and won Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, a Supreme Court case that struck down President George W. Bush's use of… — Neal Katyal Copy Share Image
In the Brown decision, the United States Supreme Court unanimously struck down the legal and moral footing of racially segregated public education… — Bobby Scott Copy Share Image
The Supreme Court has held that code is speech. And it doesn't matter that it's done on a computer or done face… — Jimmy Wales Copy Share Image
Meditation was invented as a way for the soul to venture inward, there ultimately to find supreme identity with Godhead. Whatever else… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
With all due respect to all philistines, the dictatorship of the proletariat does just consist in "giving a hiding" to the classes… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image