All Quotes

To that movement, consecrated by religious principle, sustained by an awful sense of justice, and cheered by the brightest hopes of future good, all our powers, talents, and attainments are devoted.
‐‐ George Ripley

To the American people I say, awaken to what is happening. It is the duty of each citizen to be vigilant, to protect liberty, to speak out, left and right and disagree lest be trampled underfoot by misguided zealotry and extreme partisanship.
‐‐ Robert Byrd

To the artist is sometimes granted a sudden, transient insight which serves in this matter for experience. A flash, and where previously the brain held a dead fact, the soul grasps a living truth! At moments we are all artists.
‐‐ Arnold Bennett

To the artist there is never anything ugly in nature.
‐‐ Auguste Rodin

To the audience, it's like I'm changing the subject every five seconds, but to me, my show's almost like a 90-minute song that I know exactly. I wrote every note, and I know exactly where everything is.
‐‐ Steven Wright

To the average mind popular music would mean compositions vulgarly conceived and commonplace in their treatment. That is absolutely false.
‐‐ John Philip Sousa

To the best of my judgment, I have labored for, and not against, the Union. As I have not felt, so I have not expressed any harsh sentiment towards our Southern brethren. I have constantly declared, as I really believed, the only difference between them and us is the difference of circumstances.
‐‐ Abraham Lincoln

To the best of my knowledge, my youngest reader is 10 and the oldest is 95.
‐‐ Gail Carriger

To the best of my knowledge, when I became national secretary and, indeed, Victorian secretary, the - my predecessors in the union had detected wrong activities, activities which aren't in the best traditions of the AWU or, indeed, trade unionism.
‐‐ Bill Shorten

To the biographer all lives bar none are dramatic constructions.
‐‐ Katharine Anthony

To the biologist the problem of socialism appears largely as a problem of size.
‐‐ John B. S. Haldane

To the brains of our predecessors we owe all of our inheritance of civilization and culture.
‐‐ John Eccles

To the casual observer, the Dropbox demo video looked like a normal product demonstration, but we put in about a dozen Easter eggs that were tailored for the Digg audience. References to Tay Zonday and 'Chocolate Rain' and allusions to 'Office Space' and 'XKCD.' It was a tongue-in-cheek nod to that crowd, and it kicked off a chain reaction.
‐‐ Drew Houston

To the Christian Church, the destruction of the Temple served as an ultimate sign that the Jews were no longer God's chosen people, divine favor having now been transferred to a newer and better Israel.
‐‐ Meir Soloveichik

To the citizens of Israel, I say: we have passed difficult years, faced the most painful experiences and overcame them. The future lies before us. We are required to take difficult and controversial steps, but we must not miss the opportunity to try to achieve what we have wished for, for so many years: security, tranquillity and peace.
‐‐ Ariel Sharon

To the contrary, I believe the U.S. military has already done all that has been asked of them. Saddam Hussein is on trial. The threat from alleged weapons of mass destruction programs in Iraq has been neutralized.
‐‐ Peter DeFazio

To the contrary, I think we bent over backwards to press for elections and for democratic reform.
‐‐ John Negroponte

To the contrary, when you look at projections, both Polish and international, we can expect some slowing down of the rate of growth in the coming year, 2012. But of course these are projections.
‐‐ Marek Belka

To the darkness and the night, the spirits seem to have a natural claim - it is their realm; the boldest of us have sometimes felt an unaccountable creeping in the thick darkness.
‐‐ Richard Jefferies

To the degree we're not living our dreams, our comfort zone has more control of us than we have over ourselves.
‐‐ Peter McWilliams

To the dumb question, 'Why me?' the cosmos barely bothers to return the reply, 'Why not?'
‐‐ Christopher Hitchens

To the European immigrant - that is, to the aliens who have been converted into Americans by the advantages of American life - the Promise of America has consisted largely in the opportunity which it offered of economic independence and prosperity.
‐‐ Herbert Croly

To the European, it is a characteristic of the American culture that, again and again, one is commanded and ordered to 'be happy.' But happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue. One must have a reason to 'be happy.'
‐‐ Viktor E. Frankl

To the extent I am known, I think I am known as a person who expresses his opinion freely about things - and I was sensitive to the possibility that if I was seen taking money for saying nice things about a product, my comments and choices and opinions would become, understandably, suspect.
‐‐ Anthony Bourdain

To the extent residency preferences prevent families and senior citizens from purchasing homes because of race, ethnicity or color, the preferences violate federal law and cannot be tolerated.
‐‐ Loretta Lynch

To the extent that '60s guys own things, yes... but I don't have the publishing, just like most '60s guys, and that was an error, you know... part ownership in publishing was the kind of era that started a little bit later, when real businessmen started to manage artists.
‐‐ John Sebastian

To the extent that bank panics interfere with normal flows of credit, they may affect the performance of the real economy.
‐‐ Ben Bernanke

To the extent that I come from a deeply religious tradition and have been contending with those beginnings all of my life - that constitutes the subject of much of my early fiction.
‐‐ Chaim Potok

To the extent that independent means you're willing to attempt to put your own ideas, personality, and commitment to the material on screen, then of course I hope I'm independent until the day I die.
‐‐ James Gray

To the extent that Israel does face threats, like from say Hamas or Hezbollah, those are threats that do not jeopardise Israel's existence.
‐‐ Stephen M. Walt

To the extent that laws are founded on morality and on logic, they can lead men's hearts and minds.
‐‐ Robert Kennedy

To the extent that people overpay as a result of the Libor manipulation, they should be able to get their money back. Individuals who have mortgages, pension funds who had pensioner investments - whoever was ripped off is entitled to get their money back.
‐‐ Peter Welch

To the extent that philosophical positions both confuse us and close doors to further inquiry, they are likely to be wrong.
‐‐ E. O. Wilson

To the extent that tenure supports academic freedom, I support tenure. I want no person or system to have any power, real or apparent, to chill academic freedom.
‐‐ James E. Rogers

To the extent that the judicial profession becomes the daily routine of deciding cases on the most secure precedents and the narrowest grounds available, the judicial mind atrophies and its perspective shrinks.
‐‐ Irving R. Kaufman

To the extent that the United States has, I don't like the word hegemony, the United States has influence around the world, I don't think that's based on to any significant degree on the fact that countries use the dollar as their major reserve.
‐‐ Robert C. Solomon

To the extent that we are all educated and informed, we will be more equipped to deal with the gut issues that tend to divide us.
‐‐ Caroline Kennedy

To the extent that we even understand string theory, it may imply a massive number of possible different universes with different laws of physics in each universe, and there may be no way of distinguishing between them or saying why the laws of physics are the way they are. And if I can predict anything, then I haven't explained anything.
‐‐ Lawrence M. Krauss

To the extent that we have a better understanding of the brain, we will have a richer appreciation of ourselves, of our fellow men and of society and, in fact, of the whole world and its problems.
‐‐ John Eccles

To the extent that you can find ways where you're making predictions, there's no substitute for testing yourself on real-world situations that you don't know the answer to in advance.
‐‐ Nate Silver

To the extent we push meat a little bit to the side and move vegetables to the center of our diet, we're also going to be a lot healthier.
‐‐ Michael Pollan

To the factory farmer, in contrast to the traditional farmer with his sense of honor and obligation, the animals are 'production units,' and accorded all the sympathy that term suggests.
‐‐ Matthew Scully

To the families of special needs children all across this country I have a message for you: for years you have sought to make America a more welcoming place for your sons and daughters, and I pledge to you that if we're elected, you will have a friend, an advocate, in The White House.
‐‐ Sarah Palin

To the fantastic mental illness of Rationalism, hard facts are regrettable things, and to talk about them is to create them.
‐‐ Francis Parker Yockey

To the field of synthetic chemistry belongs an array of responsibilities which are crucial for the future of mankind, not only with regard to the health and needs of our society, but also for the attainment of a deep understanding of matter, chemical change, and life.
‐‐ Elias James Corey

To the first class belong the Gospels and Acts; to the second, the Epistles; to the third, the Revelation.
‐‐ Philip Schaff

To the folks walking around the District of Columbia, I would say this: 'Be careful.'
‐‐ Kal Penn

To the former child migrants, who came to Australia from a home far away, led to believe this land would be a new beginning, when only to find it was not a beginning, but an end, an end of innocence - we apologise and we are sorry. To the mothers who lost the maternal right to love and care for their child - we apologise, and we are sorry.
‐‐ Malcolm Turnbull

To the game code, the world is still just a tile map, but for rendering, each map was exported as a general-purpose 3D model, and the artists could then go through it and spend the polygons any way they liked, without the limits of line-of-constant-z software rasterization that we lived with on the mobile phones.
‐‐ John Carmack