To morrow, I believe, is to be an eclipse of the sun, and I think it perfectly meet and proper that the sun in the heavens, and the glory of the Republic should both go into obscurity and darkness together.
By : Benjamin F. Wade
The Artist is he who detects and applies the law from observation of the works of Genius, whether of man or Nature. The Artisan is he who merely applies the rules which others have detected.
By : Henry David Thoreau
Each Warrior wants to leave the mark of his will, his signature, on important acts he touches. This is not the voice of ego but of the human spirit, rising up and declaring that it has something to contribute to the solution of the hardest problems, no matter how vexing!
By : Pat Riley
The Cold War in Africa is one of the darkest, most disgraceful pages in contemporary history, and everybody ought to be ashamed.
By : Ryszard Kapuscinski
No matter how badly senators want to know things, judicial nominees are limited in what they may discuss. That limitation is real, and it comes from the very nature of what judges do.
By : Orrin Hatch
Artists have really never had any representation on Capitol Hill, because it's not the nature of the artist to join together and make a unified presence. Those days kind of died in the '60s.
By : Sheryl Crow
It's not so much that I got that idea at some point, it came up naturally because of the improvisational nature of the story I was telling.
By : Chester Brown
A political convention is not a place where you can come away with any trace of faith in human nature.
By : Murray Kempton
The possibility of a scientific treatment of history means a wider experience, a greater maturity of practical reason, and finally a fuller realization of certain basic ideas regarding the nature of life and time.
By : Muhammed Iqbal
The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.
By : Francis Bacon