The first test any poem must pass is no longer, 'Is it true to nature?' but a criterion look...
M. H. ABRAMS I was never a monist - always a diversitarian.
M. H. ABRAMS We are human, and nothing is more interesting to us than humanity.
M. H. ABRAMS The Romantics were whipping boys of the New Criticism, but they appealed to me anyway. I was recalci...
M. H. ABRAMS It's amazing how, age after age, in country after country, and in all languages, Shakespeare eme...
M. H. ABRAMS When something startlingly new comes up, young people, especially, seize it. You can't complain ...
M. H. ABRAMS Hard work makes easy reading or, at least, easier reading.
M. H. ABRAMS Secular thinkers have no more been able to work free of the centuries-old Judeo-Christian culture th...
M. H. ABRAMS The survival of artistic modes in which we recognize ourselves, identify ourselves and place ourselv...
M. H. ABRAMS If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem.
M. H. ABRAMS We believed that to understand literature, you had to understand its place in history and culture.
M. H. ABRAMS We worked on solving the problem of voice communications in a noisy military environment. We establi...
M. H. ABRAMS The theories of the major philosophers of the 18th century secular enlightenment were biblical and t...
M. H. ABRAMS John Updike is always fun. And one of my former students, Tom Pynchon. And Harold Bloom, another for...
M. H. ABRAMS If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictio...
M. H. ABRAMS Key metaphors help determine what and how we perceive and how we think about our perceptions.
M. H. ABRAMS When I was a graduate student, the leading spirits at Harvard were interested in the history of idea...
M. H. ABRAMS If at first you don't succeed; you are running about average.
M. H. ALDERSON Who the hell wants to hear actors talk? -- H.M. Warner, Warner Brothers, 1927.
H. M. WARNER If at first you don't succeed, you are running about average.
M. H. ALDERSON If at first you don't succeed, you're running about average.
M. H. ALDERSON A good manager is a man who isn't worried about his own career but rather the careers of those who w...
H. S. M. BURNS It's only out of reach when you choose to keep your feet flat on the floor.
LANA M. H. WILDER Show the world there's something to fight for. Your life is the proof that beauty can still be attai...
LANA M. H. WILDER You're either self-appreciating or self-depreciating. There is no middle.
LANA M. H. WILDER Smile. Give Earth the biggest smile you've got. See every glimmer of light in the scariest, darkest ...
LANA M. H. WILDER Take care of those who work for you and you'll float to greatness on their achievements.
H. S. M. BURNS Someone died today. Someone was born today. It's not just a day—it's a moment.
LANA M. H. WILDER The U.S. has the power to block all anti-Israel moves in the Security Council, not just some of them...
ELLIOTT ABRAMS I don't see kids with Palm Pilots. They are not common on college campuses, except among profess...
ELLIOTT ABRAMS The Obama administration appears to regard intelligence leaks and briefings more or less like briefi...
ELLIOTT ABRAMS I first met Kim Dae Jung when he was a Korean dissident whose life was threatened by the military re...
ELLIOTT ABRAMS During most of the Bush administration, human rights and democracy in Egypt were on the front burner...
ELLIOTT ABRAMS In 2007, early in the improbable presidential candidacy of Barack Obama, the young first-term senato...
ELLIOTT ABRAMS CBS exhausted the Texas courts. They went from the trial court to the intermediate court to the high...
FLOYD ABRAMS I think that it is important for people to understand that whether a good-guy or a bad-guy wins a ca...
FLOYD ABRAMS I really try at least to come back and answer the question as to whether that was really the best wa...
FLOYD ABRAMS I just had the sense that at least the books that I had read about law just didn't really have e...
FLOYD ABRAMS It's not like learning how to hit a curve ball in baseball.
FLOYD ABRAMS I think we have some serious problems now, but, if you look back over the last thirty or forty years...
FLOYD ABRAMS It is within the last quarter century or thirty years. And a lot of that law has turned out to be ve...
FLOYD ABRAMS The government would be able to go to court with respect to newspaper articles, broadcast pieces and...
FLOYD ABRAMS CBS fought very hard on this because it believed and believes that there's a principle at stake ...
FLOYD ABRAMS The question at the end of the day was, the courts having found there was no defense, a producer abo...
FLOYD ABRAMS No other country in the world gives protection like that, but it is not absolute protection. People ...
FLOYD ABRAMS It has something to do with the facts and the law and who the judges are. So I think lawyers sometim...
FLOYD ABRAMS I am really impressed by lawyers who write books and tell us that they never lost a case. Most lawye...
FLOYD ABRAMS My role in it was not as central as it was in some of the later cases considering I was younger then...
FLOYD ABRAMS I mean the idea of this is that it's a good thing for the public to hear interviews like this an...
FLOYD ABRAMS I know a lot of reporters certainly will go to jail to defend confidential sources. Some have even g...
FLOYD ABRAMS I really did try to write it so that an educated public that cares about issues like this doesn'...
FLOYD ABRAMS I would say that the Pentagon Papers case of 1971 - in which the government tried to block the The N...
FLOYD ABRAMS Here we have a situation where a defendant in a case agrees to an interview with Dan Rather. It happ...
FLOYD ABRAMS There are some circumstances in which the First Amendment interest comes up against another interest...
FLOYD ABRAMS I still owe a duty of loyalty to my clients and former clients, so I cannot specify which clients I ...
FLOYD ABRAMS Were this not Texas, were there not a state where there were no protections at all and where the law...
FLOYD ABRAMS So sometimes the facts are good and sometimes the facts are bad, the important thing from the point ...
FLOYD ABRAMS When I began we did not really have a lot of First Amendment law. It is really surprising to think o...
FLOYD ABRAMS The mishandling of the would-be airplane bomber Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab's visa is only the la...
ELLIOTT ABRAMS The raids on Freedom House, the National Democratic Institute and International Republican Institute...
ELLIOTT ABRAMS The intersection of religion and world politics has often been a bloody crossroads.
ELLIOTT ABRAMS Scandinavia is boring. People living there apparently have little to do. And as European history tea...
ELLIOTT ABRAMS Smart enforcement I think is what is going to get us there; and utilization of the tools that MSHA a...
ADELE ABRAMS The aggregates industry may end up being like the dolphins getting stuck in the net with the tuna. I...
ADELE ABRAMS They pretty much made the Freedom of Information Act a joke. It is like pulling teeth to try to get ...
ADELE ABRAMS It was quite audacious and highly inappropriate. What was he afraid of being asked?
ADELE ABRAMS I have never represented (or heard of) a company where a 'pattern of violations' had been used.
ADELE ABRAMS You people are telling me what you think I want to know. I want to know what is actually happening.
CREIGHTON ABRAMS Tunisia was not for the United States an important country in the way, let's say, Algeria was be...
ELLIOTT ABRAMS While foreign competitors, French or Japanese or German, merrily bid for contracts abroad, American ...
ELLIOTT ABRAMS I try to do that in this book without preaching - to try to do as you just said that you really have...
FLOYD ABRAMS It just seems to be a human trait to want to protect the speech of people with whom we agree. For th...
FLOYD ABRAMS The Obama administration has been trying out a new policy toward Syria since the day it came to offi...
ELLIOTT ABRAMS In Iran, there is no freedom of the press, no freedom of speech, no independent judiciary, no free e...
ELLIOTT ABRAMS The U.A.E. is a firm ally of the United States and deserves better treatment than it received in the...
ELLIOTT ABRAMS When eating an elephant take one bite at a time.
CREIGHTON ABRAMS First impressions matter. Experts say we size up new people in somewhere between 30 seconds and two ...
ELLIOTT ABRAMS If I shave, I don't have a chin anymore.
CASEY ABRAMS While Argentina, Brazil, and Chile - what in textbooks used to be called the ABC countries - seem se...
ELLIOTT ABRAMS The war on drugs is not being won, and it continues to threaten stability and democracy not only in ...
ELLIOTT ABRAMS The good Jew is ritually observant and resists assimilation, in some sense living apart, never fitti...
ELLIOTT ABRAMS Mass killing has very clearly not been eliminated, nor has the 'international community' dev...
ELLIOTT ABRAMS Turkey's solidarity with Hamas is not, of course, based on Arab nationalism, which as a non-Arab...
ELLIOTT ABRAMS While we use American power to fight hard for democracy against extremism on both left and right, ou...
ELLIOTT ABRAMS Every Israeli government since 1967, of left or right, has asserted that Jerusalem is Israel's c...
ELLIOTT ABRAMS Reformist kings can save their dynasties now by helping their countries move smoothly into democracy...
ELLIOTT ABRAMS Terrorism exploded after the Camp David talks broke down in 2000 because the Palestinians' leade...
ELLIOTT ABRAMS At Camp David in 2000, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak offered the Palestinian leader Yasir Arafat...
ELLIOTT ABRAMS In the Bill Clinton years, the foreign leader who visited the White House most often was Yasser Araf...
ELLIOTT ABRAMS What Israel wants is peace with - and the acknowledgment of - all the Arab countries.
ELLIOTT ABRAMS They've got us surrounded again, the poor bastards.
CREIGHTON ABRAMS I consider myself a bassist first.
CASEY ABRAMS Iran exports about 2.2 million barrels a day.
ELLIOTT ABRAMS Bahai Iranians are barred from holding government jobs, their children are excluded from the nation&...
ELLIOTT ABRAMS It is a natural goal of Iran to try and expel the Fifth Fleet from Bahrain.
ELLIOTT ABRAMS Al Qaeda's message that violence, terrorism and extremism are the only answer for Arabs seeking ...
ELLIOTT ABRAMS Now in its third year in office, the Obama Administration has never championed the cause of human ri...
ELLIOTT ABRAMS Nineteen-seventy-nine had been a year of American setbacks around the globe. Before the year began, ...
ELLIOTT ABRAMS In 2004, President Bush gave Prime Minister Sharon certain guarantees about American policy, but the...
ELLIOTT ABRAMS The anchors of the Arab consensus have long been Egypt and Saudi Arabia, and both are now weakened f...
ELLIOTT ABRAMS Harry Truman, who was a Bible-believing Christian Zionist, defied the secretary of state he so admir...
ELLIOTT ABRAMS In Arab capitals, the failure of the United States to stop Iran's nuclear program is understood ...
ELLIOTT ABRAMS Is multilateralism nothing more than a dodge for simple inaction?
ELLIOTT ABRAMS The Company We Keep: Reinventing Small Business for People, Community, and Place.
JOHN ABRAMS A completely different type of audience. They really like traditional bluegrass music over there.
JOHN ABRAMS I'm a strong believer in commitment to a place.
JOHN ABRAMS Because of last year's surprise, the company decided to go ahead and manufacture extra doses.
JOHN ABRAMS It's kind of a mess, and they wanted some fix. This would be a good fix.
JOHN ABRAMS The level of commitment and degree of responsibility that people took changed dramatically. What it'...
JOHN ABRAMS When the public really is going to react to this is if we can get through the legislative process. A...
JOHN ABRAMS The Iron Dome is great for the U.S.
ELLIOTT ABRAMS I've been dying to work with Simon since I saw Shaun of the Dead,
JJ ABRAMS Watch the behaviour of the actors,
JJ ABRAMS That was an incredible challenge, ... Though the lack of development was one of the greatest assets ...
JJ ABRAMS She'll be in every episode.
JJ ABRAMS He said he had a show he wanted to put on the air about the survivors of a plane crash and would I p...
JJ ABRAMS I'm really happy that I didn't see Capote until after we wrapped because I probably just would have ...
JJ ABRAMS The whole thing was reported entirely without our cooperation. People learned that I was producing a...
JJ ABRAMS Alias is, perhaps typically, a puzzle this year, ... The Vaughn storyline is not what it seems, but ...
JJ ABRAMS Alias is, perhaps typically, a puzzle this year. The Vaughn storyline is not what it seems, but that...
JJ ABRAMS I couldn't believe it, ... I started on a Monday and turned in the outline on a Friday. On the Satur...
JJ ABRAMS The United States already has in place comprehensive trade sanctions against Sudan, imposed because ...
ELLIOTT ABRAMS At that time we could not use the federal government's marijuana to show that it might be beneficial...
DONALD ABRAMS [Donald Abrams, MD, also commented on the biased federal approach to research. In the late '90s Abra...
DONALD ABRAMS [Abrams described a historically significant episode that revealed how the medical establishment -no...
DONALD ABRAMS In our studies of HIV patients with painful feet -peripheral neuropathy- animal studies have already...
DONALD ABRAMS If you are a 24-year-old man, you believe that old age begins about 55 [while] if you are a 62-year-...
DOMINIC ABRAMS Inter-group contact and positive relationships across the generations seem to be an important mechan...
DOMINIC ABRAMS Ageism is the form of prejudice experienced most commonly by people in the UK and that seems to be t...
DOMINIC ABRAMS Older people are seen basically as doddery but dear, and young people perhaps as clever but callous.
DOMINIC ABRAMS Ageism is the most pervasive form of prejudice in Britain today,
DOMINIC ABRAMS Ageism is the most pervasive form of prejudice experienced in the UK population and that seems to be...
DOMINIC ABRAMS They played really well. We didn't execute very well. I thought we tackled poorly and we coughed the...
DICK ABRAMS Every play was like watching a highlight film. He had a great game.
DICK ABRAMS It was one of most amazing games I've been involved with ... We just missed a couple opportunities t...
DICK ABRAMS Their No. 1 strength is to run the ball. They run the Wing-T, which is always difficult to defend.
DICK ABRAMS They looked like a strong running team against Mount Vernon. They have some real talent on the line ...
DICK ABRAMS We took a big step between Monroe and Lake. That has to continue to be competitive in our league, be...
DICK ABRAMS Maybe for (senior quarterback Aaron) Boehme and a couple guys it's big, but most are going at it as ...
DICK ABRAMS It is fair to say he has had a tremendous positive impact on my life and my business.
DOUGLAS ABRAMS The Missouri Bar runs people through Constitutional curriculum. I would like to see high schools tak...
DOUGLAS ABRAMS Too many Americans don't understand the importance of minority rights and the independent judiciary.
DOUGLAS ABRAMS Judicial independence is the bulwark of our system. It gives life to the words of the Constitution.
DOUGLAS ABRAMS [One of Ms. Miller's lawyers, Floyd Abrams, wrote a letter to Mr. Libby's lawyer on Thursday in what...
FLOYD ABRAMS [Appearing on CNN's] Reliable Sources, ... I tried to get a deal a year ago. I spoke to Mr. Fitzgera...
FLOYD ABRAMS [Appearing Sunday on CNN's] Reliable Sources, ... I tried to get a deal a year ago. I spoke to Mr. F...
FLOYD ABRAMS [That position, Abrams said, led Miller's team to assume that Libby wasn't really keen on seeing Mil...
FLOYD ABRAMS Today's result is overdue. Mayor Giuliani should have never started this destructive fight with the ...
FLOYD ABRAMS I used to watch him practice. It was a sort of Jimmy Stewart style. Denis was a very soft-spoken, se...
FLOYD ABRAMS will significantly lessen the risk of large media companies finding themselves in the situation that...
FLOYD ABRAMS a book is allowed to criticize a holder of a trademark and mock a trademark as well.
FLOYD ABRAMS coerced and had been required as a condition for Libby's continued employment at the White House.
FLOYD ABRAMS Judy's view is that any purported waiver she got from anyone was not on the face of it sufficiently ...
FLOYD ABRAMS President Bush was disgusted by the Assad regime's oppression of the Syrian people as well as it...
ELLIOTT ABRAMS An effective U.S. policy toward Sudan - one capable of changing the situation in the south and affec...
ELLIOTT ABRAMS A SOBA is a client/server application done right. It is a business application that is centered on W...
CHARLES ABRAMS A SOBA is a client/server application done right, ... It is a business application that is centered ...
CHARLES ABRAMS We don't think for a second the property won't be developed. We aren't naive. We just want something...
CHARLES ABRAMS We feel strongly that Regis has been a great neighbor for a very long time. The idea is great; the t...
CHARLES ABRAMS We've got financial professionals, we've got attorneys, real estate experts. Weston's probably the w...
CHARLES ABRAMS A city has values as well as slums, excitement as well as conflict a personality that has not yet be...
CHARLES ABRAMS A city is the pulsating product of the human hand and mind, reflecting man's history, his struggle f...
CHARLES ABRAMS I think that in the end, a talk show is a very different animal.
DAN ABRAMS When eating an elephant take one bite at a time
CREIGHTON ABRAMS You people are telling me what you think I want to know. I want to know what is actually happening.
CREIGHTON ABRAMS They've got us surrounded again, the poor bastards.
CREIGHTON ABRAMS We were looking for things to do in the downtown area that would be inexpensive but have a substanti...
DAN ABRAMS But we would like a presence for the block party we have planned for April 22,
DAN ABRAMS A lot has been done but it's not necessarily high profile. What we are missing is some kind of high ...
DAN ABRAMS All the work will be done by the Sierra Vista Rotary West Club.
DAN ABRAMS The plan is to do one business every weekend in time for next spring when everything will be bloomin...
DAN ABRAMS This is an all-out vindication for Michael Jackson and his supporters.
DAN ABRAMS Supreme Court arguments and decisions are fascinating to a few of us and really pretty boring to mos...
DAN ABRAMS He said he believed that she, quote, 'Fought like hell. He also believes that the killer or killers ...
DAN ABRAMS It will require school districts to have a plan on how they will deal with school opening and closin...
DAN ABRAMS The Rotary Club will do the work, because business people are busy. But the impact and the value of ...
DAN ABRAMS Enlightened despots are mythical creatures; real despots seem more interested in stealing money or i...
ELLIOTT ABRAMS Our ability to continue to increase market share for these new products has been one of the keys to ...
LEIGH ABRAMS We are proud to play even a small part in helping our industries provide emergency shelter for the v...
LEIGH ABRAMS Our ability to pick up better than 10 percent market share in these new product segments in less tha...
LEIGH ABRAMS The manufactured housing industry, exclusive of the FEMA orders, has not yet started to rebound. Yet...
LEIGH ABRAMS It appears that most of the temporary housing ordered by FEMA has already been produced, but we expe...
LEIGH ABRAMS Despite facing some growing pains in 2005, it was an outstanding year for Drew. We made significant ...
LEIGH ABRAMS If the people who make the decisions are the people who will also bear the consequences of those dec...
JOHN ABRAMS The logic of collective security is flawless, provided it can be made to work under the conditions p...
ELLIOTT ABRAMS The Fayyad cabinet may well be the best the Palestinians ever get. But whatever its good qualities, ...
ELLIOTT ABRAMS A visitor from a distant planet might say of all of this, 'What are you doing? Why are you limiting ...
FLOYD ABRAMS Being an Arab leader has its rewards: the suite at the Waldorf-Astoria during the United Nations Gen...
ELLIOTT ABRAMS [In an interview yesterday, Abrams declined to endorse Miller's account that Libby did not want her ...
FLOYD ABRAMS On the human rights side, administration policy has been marked by indifference. When the people of ...
ELLIOTT ABRAMS The United States treated Gaddafi as an enemy due to his support for terrorism against us, until a r...
ELLIOTT ABRAMS Moammar Gaddafi, who has called himself the 'Guide of the First of September Great Revolution of...
ELLIOTT ABRAMS The notion that public service requires men and women of good character now seems quaint.
ELLIOTT ABRAMS There are examples of fraternal dictatorships, or one, anyway: the passing of power from Fidel to Ra...
ELLIOTT ABRAMS Sometimes the results of a first free election will find the moderates so poorly organized that extr...
ELLIOTT ABRAMS In life as in dance: Grace glides on blistered feet
ALICE ABRAMS I'm not going to let people get away with either a dishonest or inaccurate premise to what we...
DAN ABRAMS The story of the Jews in the Bible is replete with incidents of their ingratitude to God for His gif...
ELLIOTT ABRAMS What does 'politicizing intelligence' mean? Using intel, or more often, partial intel, to pr...
ELLIOTT ABRAMS Immanuel Kant famously claimed that 'he who wills the ends wills the means,' but he never sp...
ELLIOTT ABRAMS