We tried war, we tried aggression, we tried intervention. None of it works. Why don't we try peace, as a science of… — Dennis Kucinich Copy Share Image
It is indubitable that a 50-year-old mathematician knows the mathematics he learned at 20 or 30, but has only notions, often rather… — Jean Dieudonne Copy Share Image
I do have aspirations when it comes to directing, I suppose, but in a sort of a vague way. It would probably… — Guy Pearce Copy Share Image
There was a misconception about me when I started off because I had my hair greased up and I have some vague… — Chris Isaak Copy Share Image
By the time you kill and mount what you catch, it has lost that very thing that made it worth having. I… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
I grew up in Alice, Texas, a small oil town with one theater that only showed Roy Rogers movies. So when I… — Lois Chiles Copy Share Image
We cannot sacrifice innocent human life now for vague and exaggerated promises of medical treatments thirty of forty years from now. There… — Ernest Istook Copy Share Image
A vague goal is no goal at all. The Ten Commandments wouldn't be very impressive, for instance, if they weren't specific, but… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
The tension of a mysterious danger is even more unbearable than danger itself. People hate the vacuum of an unknown situation. They… — Joost Meerloo Copy Share Image
Thou waitest for the spark from heaven! and we, Light half-believers of our casual creeds, Who never deeply felt, nor clearly will'd,… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
In his Philosophy of Style, Herbert Spencer gives two sentences to illustrate how the vague and general can be turned into the… — William Strunk, Jr Copy Share Image
It would indeed be a great delusion, if we stated that those sports of Nature [we find] enclosed in rocks are there… — Agostino Scilla Copy Share Image
Worry is different from fear. If fear is like a raging fever, worry is a low-grade temperature. It nags at us, simmers… — Gerald Lawson Sittser Copy Share Image
When Catholicism goes bad it becomes the world-old, world-wide religio of amulets and holy places and priestcraft. Protestantism,in its corresponding decay, becomes… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
For a young man, sleep is a sure solvent of distress. There whirls not for him in the night any so hideous… — Max Beerbohm Copy Share Image
Who exactly do you want to be? What kind of person do you want to be? What are your personal ideals? Whom… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
In Britain, when someone says they do not believe in God, they stop going to church. In the U.S., many who may… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
As human beings, we can encompass a vague feeling of what the universe is, and all in this funny little brain here… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
I spend most of my time in a room alone where eight hours go by, and I have no sense of time.… — Dan Gilroy Copy Share Image
I have a vague memory of seeing an image of a child in an iron lung and the phrase "sad little breathing… — Matthea Harvey Copy Share Image
When I watch a romantic comedy, I feel like they're selling something that doesn't exist. Two beautiful, but extremely unpleasant, people are… — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
My eyes are vague blue, like the sky, and change all the time; they are indiscriminate but fleeting, entirely specific and disloyal,… — Frank O'Hara Copy Share Image
While the agreement signed in Paris between 195 nations to combat climate change was historic and significant, it's still vague and lacks… — John B. Quigley Copy Share Image
I found myself in the changed man theory the other night thinking, "Yeah." I thought, "My god. If we could do this… — Pierce Brosnan Copy Share Image
“Culture, of course, is an extremely vague word, covering everything from the shaping of hand-axes to corporate mission statements, as well as… — Nicholas Ostler Copy Share Image
I don't work with an outline, except a vague one in my head, a general idea of character, place, arc... I'm like… — Said Sayrafiezadeh Copy Share Image
A jurisdiction thus vague and arbitrary was exposed to the most dangerous abuse: the substance, as well as the form, of justice… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
A politician must often talk and act before he has thought and read. He may be very ill informed respecting a question:… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
Boys have their soft and gentle moods too. You would suppose by the morning racket that nothing could be more foreign to… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Honestly, I feel you are poisoned if you read too much of the scientific literature because it makes you start thinking like… — Eric Betzig Copy Share Image
As a writer myself, my job has very often been to also write on the job. So you get the script and… — Sally Phillips Copy Share Image
Technique does not constitute art. Nor is it a vague, fuzzy romantic quality known as ‘beauty,’ remote from the realities of everyday… — Grant Wood Copy Share Image
You can't plan your character arc - you have a vague idea, maybe, but I'm constantly surprised. Sometimes actors in films will… — Evan Peters Copy Share Image
I am no disbeliever in spiritual purpose and no vague believer. I see from the standpoint of Christian orthodoxy. This means that… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
Usually I'm trying to turn something around or turn it inside out and see what's underneath. I know that probably sounds incredibly… — Mary-Louise Parker Copy Share Image
In such a case secrecy must be absolute to be effective, and although mere vague curiosity induced many persons of my intimate… — Henry Bessemer Copy Share Image
In the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as truth. Man made… — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
That's a way to increase the realism to the reader, if you want to get technical - you leave it [character] vague… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
The priest, realistically considered, is the most immoral of men, for he is always willing to sacrifice every other sort of good… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
One of the most extraordinary things about industrial society of the present day is its idiot lack of memory. Tabloids and movies… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image