I can't change the past, and I don't think I would. I don't expect to be understood. I like what I've written,… — Harold Brodkey Copy Share Image
Alliances and international organizations should be understood as opportunities for leadership and a means to expand our influence, not as constraints on… — Chuck Hagel Copy Share Image
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A half-century before Madonna, Gypsy [Rose Lee] understood how to make performance out of desire, how to exploit the very human and… — Karen Abbott Copy Share Image
I eat in a strange way, but I enjoy it. Everything became well when I finally understood that I enjoy being hungry.… — Amelie Nothomb Copy Share Image
Nowhere was the airport's charm more concentrated than on the screens placed at intervals across the terminal which announced, in deliberately workmanlike… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
One of the things is that I've been very comfortable in every situation starting ministry in the inner city and ministering in… — Paula White Copy Share Image
I understood right from the start that every set of library doors were the sort of magic portals that lead to other… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
The Palestinians should have understood by now that what they haven't gotten today they won't be given tomorrow. — Ariel Sharon Copy Share Image
Crowds can be frightening. They have a way of impressing the low, base taste upon their members. Watching the way thousands of… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
The Devil has seldom done a cleverer thing that hinting to the Church that part of their mission is to provide entertainment… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
I know that many people kill off their real personality just to fit into this society, but why do we have to… — Novala Takemoto Copy Share Image
Philosophy is perfectly right in saying that life must be understood backward. But then one forgets the other clause - that it… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
The desire to go home that is a desire to be whole, to know where you are, to be the point of… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
More countries have understood that women's equality is a prerequisite for development. — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
If you aren't confused by quantum mechanics, you haven't really understood it. — Niels Bohr Copy Share Image
I looked at my two wolves. When I knelt they came to me rubbed against me smelling me and I stroked them.… — Carrie Vaughn Copy Share Image
I looked more widely around me, I studied the lives of the masses of humanity, and I saw that, not two or… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
We knew that al-Qaida was a threat to our country. We knew that the Clinton administration understood this and was working against… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
I was 16 when my father died, and I had a choice to come back and live in his house or I'd… — Rula Jebreal Copy Share Image
There was all this loneliness in my cartoons and people would say, "Gee, these characters are so lonely, disconnected, depressed." And I'd… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
love is so very subtle an essence, such an indefinable metaphysical marvel, that its due force, though very cruelly felt by the… — Mary Elizabeth Braddon Copy Share Image
Writing a comedy script is a difficult thing. I think if someone is attempting a comedy and then they fail then it's… — Paresh Rawal Copy Share Image