Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.
Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.
Clinton himself acted in ways which increased the threat of terror.
A categorical imperative would be one which represented an action as objectively necessary in itself, without reference to any other purpose.
Most of the images of reality on which we base our actions are really based on vicarious experience.
What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts.
Illinois surpasses every other spot of equal extent upon the face of the globe in fertility of soil and in the proportionable amount of the same which is sufficiently level for actual cultivation.
Today it is not the classroom nor the classics which are the repositories of models of eloquence, but the ad agencies.
For me, the level at which natural selection causes the phenomenon of adaptation is the level of the replicator - the gene.
There is no salvation in becoming adapted to a world which is crazy.
For the film 'Saat Khoon Maaf,' which was adapted from my story 'Susanna's Seven Husbands,' I did collaborate on the screenplay. I even took a small role in the film, of a priest.
All evils to which so many become addicted begin in the mind and in the way one thinks.
From pacifist to terrorist, each person condemns violence - and then adds one cherished case in which it may be justified.
I go to The Brit School, which is where Adele, Amy Winehouse, and Jessie J went.
Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence.
I grew up as a Southern Baptist with strict adherence to the Bible, which I read as a youngster.
In English we must use adjectives to distinguish the different kinds of love for which the ancients had distinct names.
Admiral. That part of a warship which does the talking while the figurehead does the thinking.
There is militaristic-hegemonic-plutocratic side of the U.S. which is getting out of hand and threatens to corrupt the whole republic. I remain a deeply concerned, committed admirer, but also a very worried one.
There is, however, another purpose to which academies contribute. When they consist of a limited number of persons, eminent for their knowledge, it becomes an object of ambition to be admitted on their list.