Quotes 1701 till 1720 of 2137.
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The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object.
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The wise man does not permit himself to set up even in his own mind any comparisons of his friends. His friendship is capable of going to extremes with many people, evoked as it is by many qualities.
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The words of language, as they are written or spoken, do not seem to play any role in my mechanism of thought. The physical entities which seem to serve as elements in thought are certain signs and more or less clear images.
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The work of deciding cases goes on every day in hundreds of courts throughout the land. Any judge, one might suppose, would find it easy to describe the process which he had followed a thousand times and more. Nothing could be farther from the truth.
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The world doesn't need any more mediocrity or hedged bets.
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The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.
Sherlock Holmes in The Hound of the Baskervilles (1901) -
The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows whither he is going.
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The worst thing any decorator can do is give a client the feeling that he's walking around somebody else's house; the rooms must belong to the owner, not to the decorator; and no rooms can have atmosphere unless they are used and lived in.
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Then read from the treasured volume the poem of thy choice, and lend to the rhyme of the poet the beauty of thy voice.
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Theology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn't there. Theologians can persuade themselves of anything.
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There are a lot of billionaires in Silicon Valley, but in the end, we are all heading to the same place. If given the choice between making a lot of money or finding a way to make people live longer, what do you choose?
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There are a lot of different beliefs for tightening up your core. I think just being conscious of it and being aware to engage your muscles will help any woman's tummy get in shape.
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There are enough tears in any child's life; we certainly don't need to add to them in the name of entertainment.
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There are men here and there to whom the whole of life is like an after-dinner hour with a cigar; easy, pleasant, empty, perhaps enlivened by some fable of strife to be forgotten - before the end is told - even if there happens to be any end to it.
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There are moments when you feel free, moments when you have energy, moments when you have hope, but you can't rely on any of these things to see you through. Circumstances do that.
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There are more people dying of malaria than any specific cancer.
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There are no peoples however primitive without religion and magic. Nor are there, it must be added at once, any savage races lacking either in the scientific attitude or in science, though this lack has been frequently attributed to them.
Magic, Science and Religion (1925)Bronislaw Malinowski
Polish anthropologist and ethnographer based in England and the USA (1884 - 1942) -
There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.
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There are no significant bugs in our released software that any significant number of users want fixed
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There are only about a half dozen things that make 80% of the difference in any area of our lives.
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