Nothing else in the world... not all the armies... is so powerful as an idea whose time has come.
A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood.
William Shenstone
It has never made any sense to argue that, unique among the people of the world, Arabs are more concerned on a day-to-day basis about the treatment of people they don't know than they are about how they're going to put food on their own tables, or whether their sons will ever find a job.
John Podhoretz
I'm an old-fashioned guy... I want to be an old man with a beer belly sitting on a porch, looking at a lake or something.
Johnny Depp
Within the university... you can study without waiting for any efficient or immediate result. You may search, just for the sake of searching, and try for the sake of trying. So there is a possibility of what I would call playing. It's perhaps the only place within society where play is possible to such an extent.
Jacques Derrida
The office of poetry is not to make us think accurately, but feel truly.
Frederick William Robertson
Do everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way.
Yogi Desai
Self-revelation is a cruel process. The real picture, the real you never emerges. Looking for it is as bewildering as trying to know how you really look. Ten different mirrors show you ten different faces.
Shashi Deshpande
I am thirty-three -- the age of the good Sans-culotte Jesus; an age fatal to revolutionists.
Camille Desmoulins
Clemency is also a revolutionary measure.
I don't understand complicated problems. I only understand simple ones.
Richard Deupree
Part of my job is to train people to break down an involved question into a series of simple matters. Then we can all act intelligently
The embattled gates to equal rights indeed opened up for modern women, but I sometimes think to myself: That is not what I meant by freedom -- it is only social progress.
Helene Deutsch
Everyone should have health insurance? I say everyone should have health care. I'm not selling insurance.
Dennis Kucinich
After all, the ultimate goal of all research is not objectivity, but truth.
There is both a skill factor and an effort factor in dream recall. People can develop dream recall skills, such as lying still in the morning and writing down whatever comes to mind.
Henry Reed
All observations point to the fact that the intellectual woman is masculinized; in her, warm, intuitive knowledge has yielded to cold unproductive thinking.
Drop the hammer and pick up the shovel.
J. A. Dever
I think everybody has something that takes them away or makes them happier. To some people it's baseball or sports or knitting or the movies.
Sutton Foster
What has destroyed every previous civilization has been the tendency to the unequal distribution of wealth and power.
Henry George
The regrets of yesterday and the fear of tomorrow can kill you.
Liza Minnelli
I work out twice a day, once in the morning and once before bed. I'll start with half an hour of running and then some yoga to stretch everything out so everything is warm.
Erin Heatherton
I wouldn't feel satisfied being on set every day doing a romantic comedy - I'd be bored to death.
Joaquin Phoenix
I was shocked at the anger toward me.
Bernadine Dohrn
Imagine it's 1981. You're an artist, in love with art, smitten with art history. You're also a woman, with almost no mentors to look to art history just isn't that into you. Any woman approaching art history in the early eighties was attempting to enter an almost foreign country, a restricted and exclusionary domain that spoke a private language.
Jerry Saltz
Women's rights is not only an abstraction, a cause it is also a personal affair. It is not only about us it is also about me and you. Just the two of us.
Toni Morrison
There's no longer any surprise in noting that China has grave environmental problems.
James Fallows
There must of course be a relationship between translating and making poems of your own, but what it is I just don't know.
Robert Fitzgerald
There's three things men always talk about - women, sports, and cars.
Mario Lopez
What is important, then, is not that the critic should possess a correct abstract definition of beauty for the intellect, but a certain kind of temperament, the power of being deeply moved by the presence of beautiful objects.
Walter Pater
But most good movies have a gun in them.
David Sedaris
It is said that those whom the gods wish to destroy they first make mad. It may well be that a war neurosis stirred up by propaganda of fear and hatred is the prelude to destruction.
John Boyd Orr
I have always been a firm believer in the longstanding American principle of having the right to bear arms and I will remain committed to see that this freedom is not infringed upon, revoked, or limited in any way.
Jeff Miller
War continues to divide people, to change them forever, and I write about it both because I want people to understand the absolute futility of war, the 'pity of war' as Wilfred Owen called it.
Michael Morpurgo
I'm thankful for the three ounce Ziploc bag, so that I have somewhere to put my savings.
Paula Poundstone
I want to see you shoot the way you shout.
Theodore Roosevelt
Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting, but never hit soft.
Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell em, Certainly I can! -- and get busy and find out how to do it.
We must remember not to judge any public servant by any one act, and especially should we beware of attacking the men who are merely the occasions and not the cause of disaster.
You can know or not know how a car runs and still enjoy riding in a car.
David Byrne
Why should we not expect self-designated environmental leaders to practice what they preach?
David Frum
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