After observing mutations in fruit flies for many years, Professes Goldschmidt fell into despair. The changes, he lamented, were so hopelessly micro… — Norman Macbeth Copy Share Image
And where is the Prince who can afford to so cover his country with troops for its defense, as that ten thousand… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The human race is just getting started… The cerebral cortex is only a hundred thousand years old. It's still a baby, sucking… — Ellen Gilchrist Copy Share Image
Where the world comes in my way - and it comes in my way everywhere - I consume it to quiet the… — Max Stirner Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think we're all tightrope walkers suspended on a wire two thousand feet in the air, and so long as we… — Dorothy Gilman Copy Share Image
Here is a fearful enemy of God and man — the liquor traffic; it makes ruthless war upon the people; it blasts… — Neal S. Dow Copy Share Image
I detest the word plot. I never, never think of plot. I think only and solely of character. Give me the characters;… — Stirling Silliphant Copy Share Image
Thousand of Virginia's are losing their coverage, facing skyrocketing insurance premiums and losing their doctors under Obamacare. Employers across the Commonwealth say… — Rob Wittman Copy Share Image
I was born on January 8, 1942, exactly three hundred years after the death of Galileo. I estimate, however, that about two… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
Money itself isn't lost or made, it's simply transferred from one perception to another. This painting here. I bought it 10 years… — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
Thinking fascinates me, and I probably spend too much time in my mind. My wife says that my perfect world is to… — John Larroquette Copy Share Image
What-what do you want?" Annabeth asked, trying to maintain a tone of confidence. The voice cackled maliciously. 'To curse you, of course!… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Every new discovery in science brings with it a host of new problems, just as the invention of the automobile brought with… — Banesh Hoffmann Copy Share Image
When I was your age — about, ooh, a thousand years ago — I loved a good bedtime story. The Three Little… — Mark Gatiss Copy Share Image
We remained at our encampment of this day until the morning of the 7th, when we descended ten miles lower down and… — William Henry Ashley Copy Share Image
I have somewhere heard or read the frank confession of a Benedictine abbot: "My vow of poverty has given me a hundred… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
God is infinite, so His universe must be too. Thus is the excellence of God magnified and the greatness of His kingdom… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
History knocks at a thousand gates at every moment, and the gatekeeper is chance. We shout into the mist for this one… — Alexander Herzen Copy Share Image
Once I have a hook I think has potential - enough to spin out more than a hundred thousand words, then I… — Linwood Barclay Copy Share Image
Lord, if Thou knowest that I shall find, on leaving the house, even through obedience, an occasion of offending Thee, I conjure… — Alphonsus Rodriguez Copy Share Image
Crow paced back and forth, his form flickering like flame. “It’s been a thousand years, Alister. I never intended for anyone to… — Cinda Williams Chima Copy Share Image
But there have been human hearts, constituted just like ours, for six thousand years. The same stars rise and set upon this… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
We're now interested in finding those who may attack America and arrest them before they do. We've had over nearly a thousand… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
The Babson Institute, which is now an actual university, was started by this guy [my father] who also had a problem with… — Paul Laffoley Copy Share Image
In the 1970s, New York City defaulted on its debt, and yes, the consequences were painful. Enrollment plummeted at City University campuses,… — Charles Duhigg Copy Share Image
I am persuaded that not a novel in ten thousand is of any use to a child to fit him for life.… — Storm Jameson Copy Share Image
The little people will get even, which is one of a thousand reasons why they are not little people at all. If… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
Once she made him watch Pride and Prejudice and for ages he would re-word Mr Bingley's apology to Jane Bennet, saying, 'I've… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
Language is the amber in which a thousand precious and subtle thoughts have been safely embedded and preserved. It has arrested ten… — Richard Chenevix Trench Copy Share Image
In fact, there is perhaps only one human being in a thousand who is passionately interested in his job for the job's… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
You can’t be a rational person six days a week and on one day of the week, go to a building, and… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
Maybe it's important to open up I people- people who are right there with you, not some thousand miles away in another… — Bryan Lee O'Malley Copy Share Image
If Holocaust happened, then those who bear the responsibility for it have to be punished, and not the Palestinians. Why isn't research… — Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Copy Share Image
Beavers build houses; but they build them in nowise differently, or better now, than they did, five thousand years ago. Ants, and… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Whether you're managing the finances for a household of one, a business of a thousand, or a government of several hundred million,… — Roy Blunt Copy Share Image
They're sheep. They like Bush enough to credit him with saving the nation after 9/11. Three thousand people get killed, and everybody… — Ed Asner Copy Share Image
Writing is a perpetual choice between a thousand expressions, none of which satisfies me, none of which, above all, satisfies me without… — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
Thanks to economists, all of us, from the days of Adam Smith and before right down to the present, tariffs are perhaps… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Political reporters no longer get to decide what's news. The days when a minister gave briefings to a dozen lobby correspondents, and… — Daniel Hannan Copy Share Image
I would say, on the basis of having observe a thousand people in the experiment and having my own intuition shaped and… — Stanley Milgram Copy Share Image