Though most of the friendships of the world ill deserve the name of friendships; yet a man may make use of them… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Catherine [...] enjoyed her usual happiness with Henry Tilney, listening with sparkling eyes to everything he said; and, in finding him irresistible,… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
The usual practice is that the people in their jobs keep their jobs until their successors are named. Now, that's the way… — Daniel Fried Copy Share Image
Is self-esteem a sickness? That's according to the way you define it. In the usual way it is defined by people and… — Albert Ellis Copy Share Image
One can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
CEOs of fossil energy companies know what they are doing and are aware of long-term consequences of continued business as usual. In… — James Hansen Copy Share Image
I would be a president for all of the people, African- Americans, the inner cities. Devastating what's happening to our inner cities.… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
It's the Labour Government that have brought us record peacetime taxation. They've got the usual Socialist disease - they've run out of… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Conventions are convenient. It is inconvenient to say people are dead when they are alive, or alive when they have been buried,… — R. D. Laing Copy Share Image
The answer is to end our reliance on carbon-based fuels... If we succeed, we create booming new industries, wealth, clean secure energy… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
We came to recognize that our initial thinking about the keys to educational reform was wrong. The key variables weren't pedagogical. They… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Some of what these pamphlets [of astrological forecasts] say will turn out to be true, but most of it time and experience… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
Their usual mistaken premise is that they affirm some consensus among people, at least among tame peoples, concerning certain moral principles, and… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
If you've heard Hillary Clinton's recent remarks on Ritalin and other drug use on children, you'll find the usual nauseating demagoguery. She… — Peter Breggin Copy Share Image
it is only on posters and in advertisement pages that Americans have those chubby cheeks, expanding smiles, smooth looks, and faces flushed… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
The usual method of creation for most human beings is a three-step process involving thought, word, and deed or action. First comes… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
I continue to get further away from the usual painter's tools such as easel, palette, brushes, etc. I prefer sticks, trowels, knives… — Jackson Pollock Copy Share Image
I probably don't make as much money as people think I make. I make more than the usual medium household. I'm one… — James Ransone Copy Share Image
Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness are. Write much as… — William P. Alford Copy Share Image
Everybody in America is a part of this big herd of cattle being led to the marketplace, not to be sold, which… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
We didn't start out to make a protest record at all. That would have been too shallow. As usual, it was simply… — Thom Yorke Copy Share Image
What the local politicians actually meant was that they hoped to claim the land in the name of the public and then… — Michael Moorcock Copy Share Image
I suppose the process of acceptance will pass through the usual four stages: (i) this is worthless nonsense; (ii) this is an… — John B. S. Haldane Copy Share Image
In the usual (though certainly not in every) public decision on economic policy, the choice is between courses that are almost equally… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
If we are indeed contending for truth and righteousness, let us not tarry till we have talent, or wealth, or any other… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm a Roman Catholic. Or was. I was brought up that way and used to say my prayers every night, but I… — Cilla Black Copy Share Image
The forming of general maxims from particular observation is a very nice operation; and nothing is more usual, from haste or a… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Nobody had noticed, nobody had paid attention, but, as usual, the essential part of the matter had been settled before the story… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
But it doesn't have to be this way. We can do things better. We need to stop doing business as usual and… — Gene Spafford Copy Share Image
I'm agnostic because I went through the usual process of parents insisting you go to church, and yet they didn't. So there's… — Ridley Scott Copy Share Image
I get a little cranky with the whole business about kids not having attention spans. This reminds me of the usual business… — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image
Mr. Ward, what is it that the foulest bastards on earth denounce us for, among other things? Oh yes, for our motto… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The earth is soaked and soggy with rain. Everything is drinking its fill and the surplus gluts the drains. The sky is… — Emily Carr Copy Share Image
What are you thinking?" he asked curiously. Ilooked up into his deep gold eyes, became befuddled, and, as usual, blurted out the… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
Creeping featurism is a disease, fatal if not treated promptly. There are some cures, but, as usual, the best approach is to… — Donald A. Norman Copy Share Image
And then he sank back and tried, as usual, not to think. He must succeed. That's what the world was made for.… — Theodore Dreiser Copy Share Image
All the girls in the world were divided into two classes: one class included all the girls in the world except her,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Whenever, then, the usual and ordinary rate of the profits of agricultural stock, and all the outgoings belonging to the cultivation of… — David Ricardo Copy Share Image
We may experience moments of profound inner peace, a sense of oneness with nature, or a sense of something that is more… — Thomas Keating Copy Share Image
My present post amounts to about 700 thaler, and when there are rather more funerals than usual, the fees rise in proportion;… — Johann Sebastian Bach Copy Share Image