It has been a masterful fight-back by the big banks. We the paying public can't do anything much except admit defeat and… — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
The term ‘free market’ is really a euphemism. What the far right actually means by this term is ‘lawless market.’ In a… — Steve Kangas Copy Share Image
People of all ages, but especially young people, require work that as meaning, or social value. Since they're not getting the kind… — Stewart D. Friedman Copy Share Image
Successful societies-those which progress economically and politically and can control the terms on which they deal with the outside world-succeed because they… — James Fallows Copy Share Image
Vladimir Putin doesn't really gain anything economically from annexation of Crimea. It's more a gain of power. It's a gain of what… — Kimberly Zisk Marten Copy Share Image
To lose yourself: a voluptuous surrender, lost in your arms, lost to the world, utterly immersed in what is present so that… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
The long-term vision is to replace, repair and regenerate failing tissues and organs with the materials of tissues and organs. It's still… — Richard Wagner Copy Share Image
I've always been a big guy, whether it's been a fat kid, a fat young adult, or a fat adult. I was… — Jim O'Heir Copy Share Image
I played a little basketball, but basketball interfered with theater season. That's when we did our term plays and did nutshell versions… — Dennis Haysbert Copy Share Image
There is nothing so necessary, but at the same time there is nothing more difficult (I know it by experience) for you… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
I'm probably never going to be satisfied with anything we do. I think there's always the possibility of doing better. And I'd… — Steve Case Copy Share Image
Trans people deserve something vital. They deserve your respect... If you want to call me names, make jokes, doubt my intentions, go… — Bruce Jenner Copy Share Image
Humans have will. In an exorcism with a human, you are dealing with the human will, and whether that will is sufficiently… — Bob Larson Copy Share Image
If [Hillary] Clinton wins, history will also be made: She would be the first female U.S. president, of course, but also the… — Mara Liasson Copy Share Image
For short term relaxation, I take a hot tub. It's my best way to unblock writers' block, too. For a bit longer… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
It is increasingly clear to me that my art relates more and more to a sublimation of my closeness to the natural… — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
In terms of music, each novel is different but I usually find my way into an era through the music. In this… — Danzy Senna Copy Share Image
Being a writer is part of a noble tradition, as is being a musician – the last egalitarian and open associations. No… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
In terms of Iraq, al Qaeda valued Iraq because we destroyed a government it wanted destroyed and because we put soldiers on… — Michael Scheuer Copy Share Image
I see being a woman in the world as a social problem. That's very urgently problematic in terms of it still being… — Anna Biller Copy Share Image
Back in George W. Bush's second term, when diplomatic realism began to overtake foolish bellicosity, the president developed one of his patented… — Joe Klein Copy Share Image
Large scale collective bargaining . . . is merely a seductive name for bilateral monopoly, and means either adjudication of conflicts in… — Frank Knight Copy Share Image
America has been very open to immigrants in terms of laws, getting loans - it has been helping immigrants more than it's… — Marcus Samuelsson Copy Share Image
People whose terms go for five years or longer, like FCC commissioners. That's a higher standard. Then district judges, who are appointed… — Russ Feingold Copy Share Image
Why, in truth, sir," was Monte Cristo's reply, "man is but an ugly caterpillar for him who studies him through a solar… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
Natural selection operates according to immediate cirumstances and not toward a long-term goal. Homo sapiens did eventually evolve as a descendant of… — Richard Leakey Copy Share Image
I never want to turn something down because I'm afraid to do it, because of some idea of image or whatever. That… — Christian Bale Copy Share Image
I'm not against international institutions that would try to tackle global warming. But the way to go, at least in the short… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
Ultimately, the challenges of the 21st century can't be met without collective action. Agreement will almost never be easy, and results won't… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
President Obama's first term in office has been better for intentions than for actual changes in planning and policy. I do believe,… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
Have you ever wondered why the slang terms for intoxication are so demolition-oriented? Stoned, smashed, hammered. It's because they're talking about the… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
If someone had said to me before I started doing this that a human being is capable of running 100 miles nonstop,… — Dean Karnazes Copy Share Image
The development of a long-term sterilizing capsule that could be implanted under the skin and removed when pregnancy is desired opens additional… — John Holdren Copy Share Image
Since, in the long run, every planetary civilization will be endangered by impacts from space, every surviving civilization is obliged to become… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
I love the psychology versus math and logic. In algebra, "X" means any possible variable. I sort of think about "X" in… — Allie X Copy Share Image
All I can do in my writing is to stimulate a certain amount of thought, clarify some technical facts and date my… — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
I would challenge more hip hop artists that are rapping about what it's like to be real and the social ills that… — Killer Mike Copy Share Image
I was just talking about women, just in terms of understanding them as much as we can ever understand the opposite sex.… — Fred Ward Copy Share Image
What is this world?--A term which men have got, To signify not one in ten knows what; A term, which with no… — Charles Churchill Copy Share Image
I really don't. I have truly eclectic taste in music and I seem to cycle through phases in terms of to what's… — Rachel Miner Copy Share Image