But the very act of pausing in a busy day to pray is an act of weakening pride in my life, acknowledging… — C. J. Mahaney Copy Share Image
Listen Jesus to the warning I give. Please remember that I want us to live. But it's sad to see our chances… — Tim Rice Copy Share Image
This means that the search for a formula of European cooperation in connection with the League of Nations, far from weakening the… — Aristide Briand Copy Share Image
Epidemiologists study patterns in order to combat infection. Stories about epidemics follow patterns, too. Stories aren't often deadly, but they can be… — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
There are signs, these days, that the cultural hegemony of postmodernism is weakening in the West. When even the developers tell an… — David Harvey Copy Share Image
Every day that we allow ourselves to take things for granted, every day that we allow some little physical infirmity or worldly… — John Cowper Powys Copy Share Image
There is also a concern that there is a lack of demand of oil. And so when commodity prices fall, it's good… — David Wessel Copy Share Image
We need an adequate defense, but every arms dollar we spend above adequacy has a long-term weakening effect upon the nation and… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
I think in the '50s, the percentage of Americans employed by the private sector who were in unions was above 30 percent.… — George Packer Copy Share Image
Facts do not find their way into the world in which our beliefs reside; they did not produce our beliefs, they do… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
In this game he had acquired a great deal of muddled knowledge, more than one approximation and less than one certitude. And… — Joris-Karl Huysmans Copy Share Image
Tolerance is a virtue, but like all virtues, when exaggerated, it transforms itself into a vice. We need to be careful of… — Boyd K. Packer Copy Share Image
This [Magna Carta] has been forced from the King. It constitutes an insult to the Holy See, a serious weakening of the… — Pope Innocent III Copy Share Image
You definitely go through a stage, most coaches do, where you see a good player and you get enamored...You really like what… — Bill Belichick Copy Share Image
The brain likes to be efficient and so even as its strengthening the pathways you're exercising, it's pulling - it's weakening the… — Nicholas G. Carr Copy Share Image
There is an inability to sustain the tragic mood, a phoenix quality of the mind. It may be helpful or harmful, it… — John Wyndham Copy Share Image
All the electronic devices are weakening the social bonds. Sociologists and psychologists should study this serious threat instead of repeating that communication… — Mario Bunge Copy Share Image
Lust is a monstrous sin which altereth, marreth, and drieth the body, weakening all the joints and members, making the face bubbled… — Claude C. Hopkins Copy Share Image
The deliberate weakening of the labour movement by the machinations of market fundamentalists, gaining momentum during the periods when Margaret Thatcher led… — Richard A. Falk Copy Share Image
The Islamic world is suffering not only because of external oppression but also because of the loss of its own dignity, of… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
It is true that I have been studying both humility and pride for many years for the purpose of weakening pride in… — C. J. Mahaney Copy Share Image
Ritual is a terribly important, binding cement in a society. If we abandon formality and rituals, we're actually weakening the relationships that… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
For when I came into the silent assemblies of God's people I felt a secret power among them which touched my heart;… — Robert Barclay Copy Share Image
Without claiming superiority of intellectual over visual understanding, one is nevertheless bound to admit that the cinema allowsa number of æsthetic-intellectual means… — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
I see the future of China as growth. I think that historically China has often gone through periods of consolidation, and then… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
“Every system of power in the world has a vested interest in weakening the individuality of its subjects and tries to weaken… — Christa Wolf Copy Share Image
Separation of church and state in Virginia, instead of weakening Christianity, as the conservatives of the Revolution had feared, really aided it… — H. J Eckenrode Copy Share Image
You Americans are so gullible. No, you won't accept communism outright, but we'll keep feeding you small doses of socialism until you'll… — Nikita Khrushchev Copy Share Image
Ages of experience have taught us that the commitment of a husband and a wife to love and to serve one another… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Stockholders are used to a certain kind of global capitalism. This version is very hard on the environment and very hard on… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong. You cannot bring about… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The idea of protest organizing, as summarized by community organizer Saul Alinsky, is that if we put enough pressure on the government,… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
As boom- and bust-prone as high finance always has been and remains, the greatest systemic risk to our economy is not Wall… — Tony Blankley Copy Share Image
Releasing guilt is like removing a huge weight from your shoulders. Guilt is released through the empowering thought of love and respect… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift. You cannot help small men by tearing down big men. You cannot strengthen the… — William J. H. Boetcker Copy Share Image
In many ways, American evangelicalism is somewhat stronger today than it was in, say 1955 - certainly more mainstream and influential in… — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
After long centuries, agrarian civilization is weakening. Is sufficient attention being devoted to the arrangement and improvement of the life of the… — Pope Paul VI Copy Share Image
The most incredible thing is that so much happens outside of the will. You can't will anything. Not even solitude is an… — Bram van Velde Copy Share Image
We cannot weaken or destroy political parties in ther United States without weakening or destroying the rule of the people… Those who… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
Governments and politicians use the family as an indicator of the health and strength of social life. Politicians fear that any weakening… — Adrian Wilson Copy Share Image