17521 Quotes & Sayings

With much care and skill power has been broken into fragments in the American township, so that the maximum possible number of people have some concern with public affairs. — Alexis De Tocqueville

I believe there is a moral sense and a global ethic that commands attention from people of every religion and every faith, and people of no faith. But I think what's new is that we now have the capacity to communicate instantaneously across frontiers right across the world. — Gordon Brown

It stands to reason that those who assault nature will suffer at her hands in the end. — Emma Donoghue

If you have never missed when investing, you haven't been in there trying. — Venita VanCaspel

She didn't like taking credit for other people's camels, — Rick Riordan

Root cause of inequality is the mass scale digital disruption advantage as means of wealth creation is concentrated. — Ziad K. Abdelnour

Things make sense. There are rules and realities that will not change to suit your needs. It's your job to understand those rules. If you do, and if you work hard and work smart, you will be all right. — Nando Parrado

Selsdon Man is designing a system of society for the ruthlessness and the pushing, the uncaring. His message to the rest is: you're out on your own. — Harold Wilson

God has given me a lot of ability to play the game of baseball. — Lance Berkman

No, on the outside view there was nothing for anyone to notice about me. I remained one pillar of a trinity, another pillar was lying only temporarily (temporarily! temporarily! temporarily!) in the hospital, I was the pilot of a three-engine aircraft, one of whose engines had stalled: there is no reason to panic, this is not a crash landing, the pilot has thousands of flight hours behind him, he will land the plane safely on the ground. — Herman Koch

Men worry about childcare with their wallets, women feel it in their wombs. — Allison Pearson

Perspective is the most important thing to have in life. — Lauren Graham

I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call it Eternity — Jerzy Kosinski

Without the breath of real freedom we're getting nowhere fast. — Sting

Christmas Eve, I give him packages which I open for him, since the bows and paper represent more labor than he could manage: music videos by the Nashville singers he thinks particularly sexy, fleece-lined slippers decorated with images of bacon and eggs, and a book about breeds of dogs. He says he wishes he had something for me to open, but I don't want anything except to have him here. There's nothing more he could give me than his life, right now, his being with me. — Mark Doty