There are some things more important than ourselves - more important than the limits of the present, and the whims of the… — Dan Wells Copy Share Image
The idea that freedom is merely the ability to act upon one's whims is surely very thin and hardly begins to capture… — Theodore Dalrymple Copy Share Image
As Americans, we want peace - we work and sacrifice for peace. But there can be no peace if our security depends… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
The revolutionary idea that defines the boundary between modern times and the past is the mastery of risk: the notion that the… — Peter L. Bernstein Copy Share Image
She was afraid of all that and so much more, but what terrified her most was inside of her, an insect of… — Dennis Lehane Copy Share Image
Sharon's so-called two-state solution will be, let's say, twelve Palestinian enclaves, which will be called a Palestinian state. It will be connected… — Uri Avnery Copy Share Image
Vanity is a desire of personal glory, the wish to be appreciated, honoured, and run after, not because of one's personal qualities,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
It's true; I have a skill and it's... it has not related to acting, it's not related to auditions, it's not related… — Tim Allen Copy Share Image
Knowing does not always allow us to prevent, but at least the things that we know, we hold them, if not in… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
The biggest journalistic game-changer of our time has been the rise of social media and the overgrowth of faux news sources -… — Robert Lipsyte Copy Share Image
The heart was a weak, changeable thing, bent on nothing but love, and there could be no more fatal mistake than to… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
Two visions of the world remain locked in dispute. The first believes all men are created equal by a loving God who… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Collectivism holds that the individual has no rights, that his life and work belong to the group (to "society," to the tribe,… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The kinds of roles dogs fill can be hard to come by in human relationships. We touch the dog or the pet… — Caroline Knapp Copy Share Image
We give Supreme Court justices this freedom because we expect them to remain above the pull of politics, to avoid the effects… — Herb Kohl Copy Share Image
A method of child-rearing is not--or should not be--a whim, a fashion or a shibboleth. It should derive from an understanding of… — Selma Fraiberg Copy Share Image
Organizations are about putting ideas through one or more types of gating procedures. In this way, ideas go from being a whim… — John Kao Copy Share Image
Let's just call things what they are. When a man's love of finery clouds his moral judgment, that is vanity. When he… — Matthew Scully Copy Share Image
We do not precisely enjoy liberty at the Figaro. M. de Latouche, our worthy director (ah! you should know the fellow), is… — George Sand Copy Share Image
My paintings are about light, about the way things look in their environment and especially about how things look painted. Form, colour… — Ralph Goings Copy Share Image
Insofar as one can talk of a Vionnet school, it comes mostly from my having been an enemy of fashion. There is… — Madeleine Vionnet Copy Share Image
The gorillas are not yet sufficiently advanced in evolutionary terms to have discovered the benefits of passports, currency-declaration forms, and official bribery,… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Like I said before, I don't know how helpful Inez will be, " she explained. "She's very eccentric and controlled by her… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
But lest I should mislead any when I have my own head and obey my whims, let me remind the reader that… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We are the creatures of imagination, passion, and self-will, more than of reason or even of self-interest. Even in the common transactions… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
There is a subtle danger that leads people away from religion, prevents them from submitting to God as their Lord, and ultimately,… — Harun Yahya Copy Share Image
Everybody thinks of others as being excessively human, with all the frailties and crotchets appertaining to that curious condition. But each of… — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
The terrible tabulation of the French statists brings every piece of whim and humor to be reducible also to exact numerical ratios.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Books arent written on whim or promises. Books are written on years turned inside out by ideas that never let go until… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
By...our readiness to allow arms to be purchased at will and fired at whim; by allowing our movie and television screens to… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Some people are incapable of perceiving in the object of their contemplation the very thing that gives it its intrinsic life and… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
To suppose that the value of a common stock is determined purely by a corporation's earnings discounted by the relevant interest rates… — James Grant Copy Share Image
Fame is an illusive thing - here today, gone tomorrow. The fickle, shallow mob raises its heroes to the pinnacle of approval… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Katherine of Aragon was speaking out for the women of the country, for the good wives who should not be put aside… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
You're not going,"he said as soon as she'd finished. "If I have to tie you up and sit on you until this… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Nicole Baart has written a novel that satisfies on every level. Sleeping In Eden is a compelling mystery, a tragic love story,… — William Kent Krueger Copy Share Image
