A century of partial tolerance gave us Jews access to your world. In that period the great attempt was made, by advance… — Maurice Samuel Copy Share Image
This word "description" may be disconcerting when used to refer to what is generally called a translation. But when one wishes to… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
There is nothing else than now. There is neither yesterday, certainly, nor is there any tomorrow. How old must you be before… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Western progress (from one damned thing to another) seems to be essentially the MO of nowhere fast. But, on the other hand,… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
Once you step inside, history has to be rewritten to include you. A fiction develops a story that weaves you into the… — Camilla Gibb Copy Share Image
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It's one of the ironies of mountaineering,' said Young, 'that grown men are happy to spend months preparing for a climb, weeks… — Jeffrey Archer Copy Share Image
“..perhaps all our lovers are merely hints and symbols; vagabond languages scrawled on gate-posts and paving stones along the weary road that… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
The editor, Stephen Segal, actually called me with the idea of creating an accordion book [ "The Thorn & The Blossom"], and… — Theodora Goss Copy Share Image
One: There is a low limit of weight [of about] 50 pounds beyond which it is impossible for an animal to fly.… — Joseph LeConte Copy Share Image
The constitution of the United States is to receive a reasonable interpretation of its language, and its powers, keeping in view the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One morning I was reading the story of Jesus' feeding of the five thousand. The disciples could find only five loaves of… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
Everybody thought that Titanic was the most romantic movie ever. A story about two teenagers who knew each other for three days.… — Greg Giraldo Copy Share Image
Water is two parts hydrogen and one part oxygen. What if someone says, “Well, that’s not how I choose to think about… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Kissinger's major, and most lucrative role, has come as head of Kissinger Associates in New York City, founded on a loan obtained… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
You have with you the book you were reading in the cafe, which you are eager to continue, so that you can… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
Modern Australian trade unionism and the unionist that I am doesn't rely on a class war view that somehow that the interests… — Bill Shorten Copy Share Image
Were I to define the British constitution, therefore, I should say, it is a limited monarchy, or a mixture of the three… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Everything is 'colossalized' - events, fortunes, accidents, climate, conversation, ambitions - everything is in the extreme ... They can't even have a… — Elinor Glyn Copy Share Image
Our two nations both faced great challenges when they were founded, and our two nations have both relied on the same principles… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
For the photograph's immobility is somehow the result of a perverse confusion between two concepts: the Real and the Live: by attesting… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
My favorite species to study would be Cobras and King Cobras which are two different families. They're very intelligent, and they're beautiful… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
I have always preferred to liken the championship to a marathon. You have to know how to start the race, how to… — Bob Paisley Copy Share Image
Happy are they, who in the matter of marriage observe three rules. The first is to marry only in the Lord, and… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
It is only through the psyche that we can establish that God acts upon us, but we are unable to distinguish whether… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
For the mind and the imagination, bookstores aren't enough, college courses aren't enough, the Internet isn't enough. Those resources are all governed… — Helen Vendler Copy Share Image
The ghostly presence of virtual particles defies rational common sense and is nonintuitive for those unacquainted with physics. Religious belief in God,… — Antony Hewish Copy Share Image
At first I didn't understand what [Thelonious Monk] was doing, but I went back again, and what I can say about Monk… — Randy Weston Copy Share Image
I certainly should have,' he agrees, smiling and thinking what an absurd and universally-accepted bit of nonsense it is, that your best… — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share Image
I've got to think about what I'm going to say very carefully. There's two avenues of thought: Do you stop everyone going,… — Elton John Copy Share Image
I never root for a failure. I learned that when we were on 'Felicity.' There was a show that failed on the… — Greg Grunberg Copy Share Image
She licked again, taking her time,even though she didn't need to; her first stroke numbed the bite site. No, this second taste… — Larissa Ione Copy Share Image
Actually, when I think about growing up, I feel most affected by two travels that I made working in cargo boats when… — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
Don't equate activity with efficiency. You are paying your key people to see the big picture. Don't let them get bogged down… — Harvey Mackay Copy Share Image
Our film [Hide and seek ]was created as part of the Asian American Film Lab's 11th 72 Hour Film Shootout filmmaking competition,… — Garth Kravits Copy Share Image
Strange, when one thinks of all the other boys, infinite experimental kisses, test tube infatuations, crushes, pseudo-loves. All through this physical separation,… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
Sometimes the difference between two candidates is an important one in the immediate sense, and then I believe trying to get somebody… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
I think you can maintain two tracks. I think you have to. That's what this kind of filmmaking is about. If you're… — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
Chess is a unique battlefield for human minds and computers - human intuition, our creativity, fantasy, our logic, versus the brute force… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
The first commandment for every good explorer is that an expedition has two points: the point of departure and the point of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image