I was initially recruited while I was in business school back in the late sixties by the National Security Agency, the nation's… — John Perkins Copy Share Image
What, did you think," she asked, laughing as he struggled up the bank, "that I, a Gaulish maiden, could not swim?" "I… — G.A. Henty Copy Share Image
I understood early on that I was not the best-looking girl in the room. But I knew my advantage was a hard… — Erin O'Connor Copy Share Image
It is only through contact and comparison that the relative value or worthlessness of the various cultural elements can be clearly and… — Hu Shih Copy Share Image
The majority of the Negroes who took part in the year-long boycott of Montgomery's buses were poor and untutored; but they understood… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Half-instructed confessors have done my soul great harm; for I could not always have such learned ones as I would have desired.… — Teresa of Avila Copy Share Image
There is no art or science that is too difficult for industry to attain to; it is the gift of tongues, and… — Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon Copy Share Image
A liberal is only a bundle of prejudices until he has mastered, has understood, experienced the philosophy of Conservatism. — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
The reflection of nature in man's thought must be understood not lifelessly but in the eternal process of movement, the arising of… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
My parents put me in the water very early, and also had me skiing at a very early age. They put me… — Benoit Lecomte Copy Share Image
It's human desire to be understood. And we always feel we're not understood. — John Baldessari Copy Share Image
To the extent that I've ever understood postmodernism - and I'm sure there are people out there who do, but I'm not… — Steve Erickson Copy Share Image
Evolution is not something to be feared. It's to be celebrated, embraced, and understood. — Sylvia Earle Copy Share Image
What was love, really? Flowers, chocolate, and poetry? Or was it something else? Was it being able to finish someone's jokes? Was… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
We ought not to be over-anxious to encourage innovation in cases of doubtful improvement, for an old system must ever have two… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
People want their own laws to take precedence over those of the European Union. The French have understood that the EU does… — Marine Le Pen Copy Share Image
We are victims of the post-Enlightenment view that the world functions like a sophisticated machine, to be understood like a textbook engineering… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
It will be of little avail to the people, that the laws are made by men of their own choice, if the… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
It has to be understood that the world doesn't exist with people who are exactly like us. — T.I Copy Share Image
For those of us in the political business, generally, it's been pretty much an unwritten but understood rule that family and children… — Michael Nutter Copy Share Image
I've never understood people that sleep around. I think there's something very lacking in your life when you do, not to be… — Gemma Arterton Copy Share Image
Mass ought to be in Latin, unless you could do it in Greek or Chinese. In fact, any abracadabra that no bloody… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
Mathematical objects are determined by - and understood by - the network of relationships they enjoy with all the other objects of… — Barry Mazur Copy Share Image
By equality, one once understood equality in the very same sense in which the Bible speaks of equality: that we are all… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
What will the greatest experiment discover? I have no idea!, maybe nothing!, If we won't check, we will never know. In science… — Nathan Seiberg Copy Share Image
