Not all events are stories.


Scarlett Thomas

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KWAME HARRIS
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TAWNI O'DELL
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SCARLETT THOMAS
I'm a great believer in gathering together all your obsessions and seeing if you can make a nove...
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But I quite like the way you can talk about science without necessarily using mathematics, but using...
SCARLETT THOMAS
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SCARLETT THOMAS
But the ground shakes, as if something's trying to push up from below, and I think of other people's...
SCARLETT THOMAS
Real life is physical. Give me books instead. Give me the invisibility of the contents of books, the...
SCARLETT THOMAS
One minute I was playing chess and doing maths all the time, the next I had been rerouted into more ...
SCARLETT THOMAS
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SCARLETT THOMAS
…Just walking one short path could make you feel hopeful, frustrated, bored, excited, or even noth...
SCARLETT THOMAS
There's something romantic about it, of course, in the way only other people's lives can be.
SCARLETT THOMAS
Homeopaths argue that water has a memory.
SCARLETT THOMAS
I devour history books. I love anything by Thomas B. Costain or George MacDonald Fraser. He writes m...
VIRGINIA HENLEY
All romance novels are courtship stories, and I'm not really interested in that,
DIANA GABALDON
All Stories are True.
JOHN EDGAR WIDEMAN
Fo' Gawd, Miss Scarlett! We's got ter have a doctah. Ah- Ah- Miss Scarlett, Ah doan know nuthin' 'bo...
MARGARET MITCHELL
It's not all success stories.
MAC MCCABE
All the great chefs I know - Thomas Keller, Jean-Georges Vongerichten - they are technicians first.
JACQUES PEPIN
We had a great effort by everyone. Thomas and Martinez each won two events and we had some good mark...
JAKE WINSLOW
All love stories are the same.
PAULO COELHO
And the stories we tell ourselves are not the only stories.
ERICA LORRAINE SCHEIDT
...in the end it's not just the big and small events that make you who you are, make your life what ...
LISA UNGER
You will observe that the stories told are all about money-seekers, not about money-finders.
EDGAR ALLAN POE
I really don't know why Scarlett has such appeal. When I began writing the sequel, I had a lot of tr...
ALEXANDRA RIPLEY
I'm very lucky, because my beat is current events. And events are changing all the time.
RICK MERCER
Events are not a matter of chance.
GAMAL ABDEL NASSER
All stories are, in some form, prayers.
BRIAN DOYLE
All stories are ultimately about the fall.
J.R.R. TOLKIEN
In any case, this is how all our stories begin, in darkness with our eyes closed, and all our storie...
LEMONY SNICKET
Wherever you are, be all there.
CRAIG GROESCHEL
You can plan events, but if they go according to your plan they are not events.
JOHN BERGER
Lies are just stories, and stories are all that matter. We all tell stories. Some are more truthful ...
LAUREN OLIVER
She imagined loving him would feel like falling in love with darkness, frightening and consuming yet...
STEPHANIE GARBER
All the stories we tell ourselves are wrong.
J. ROBERT LENNON
We are all given one thing by which our lives are measured, one determination. Mine are the stories ...
SHERMAN ALEXIE
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ALEXANDRA RIPLEY
All strange and terrible events are welcome, but comforts we despise.
CLEOPATRA
We are all joined in a circle of stories.
LINDA JOY MYERS
We do not know if St. Thomas is on the list. Probably not. But who knows?
DENNIS DESROSIERS
Take me to the height where success would seek my help to succeed!
I ARE
The best stories come from deep within us and are of us. Either our inner child comes out to play an...
JUDITH KOHNEN
It's very clear to us that these are really campaign events designed to get the governor re-elected....
DAN QUINN
In the last six weeks, Bill Thomas' Kern County has just gotten way more than it deserves, and I kno...
BRAD SHERMAN
I have stories. But stories are not facts.'
'I like stories. Love them, actually. Most of the t...
MORGAN RHODES
All my stories are about the action of grace on a character who is not very willing to support it, b...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR
We must remember that there’s more than one story and plot in every novel. There are at least as m...
WALTER MOSLEY
All stories are true. But some of them never happened.
JAMES A. OWEN
You know the passage where Scarlett voices her happiness that her mother is dead, so that she can...
VIVIEN LEIGH
First of all, tabloid stories are some of the richest and most important stories that we have. There...
ERROL MORRIS
'Tis merry in hall Where beards wag all. - Thomas Tusser,
THOMAS TUSSER
I’m not Thomas Jefferson. He was a pussy!
CHARLIE SHEEN
Stories are the wildest things of all, the monster rumbled. Stories chase and bite and ...
PATRICK NESS
I can read Middle English stories, Geoffrey Chaucer or Sir Thomas Malory, but once I start moving in...
DAVID EDDINGS
Whenever I go to Germany I find that my readers have T-shirts with my book covers printed on them. T...
CECELIA AHERN
The human world is made of stories, not people. The people the stories use to tell themselves are no...
DAVID MITCHELL
Never pass up new experiences [Scarlett], They enrich the mind." - Rhett Butler
MARGARET MITCHELL
Like Scarlett O'Hara, I won't be broke again.
TONI BRAXTON
I know I am right for Scarlett. I can convince Mr. Selznick.
VIVIEN LEIGH
But then Scarlett turned up. It could have been me - I'm gutted!
JEMIMA ROOPER
Literature can remind us that not all life is already written down: there are still so many stories ...
COLUM MCCANN
The American formula things are out there but they don't have any stories to tell - we have all the ...
YAHOO SERIOUS
Ha-ha!' the fox laughed. '*Just* stories, you say, as if stories mean nothing? Stories are the stuff...
C. ALEXANDER LONDON
All religions, all indigenous traditions, all origin stories provide a large map of where you are.
DAVID CHRISTIAN
Smaller events are more likely, and the catastrophic events are rare.
HANK HEASLER
There are no mistakes, no coincidences. All events are blessings given to us to learn from.
ELISABETH KUBLER-ROSS
There are no mistakes, no coincidences. All events are blessings given to us to learn from.
ELISABETH KUBLER-ROSS
I like to write stories that read like historical fiction about great, world-changing events through...
CAROL BERG
To the creative individual all experience is seminal- all events are equidistant from new ideas and ...
ERIC HOFFER
I loved something I made up, something that's just as dead as Melly is. I made a pretty suit of clot...
MARGARET MITCHELL
This game brings out the most selfish parts of many people, but it had the opposite effect on you. W...
STEPHANIE GARBER
Scarlett nodded, afraid saying the wrong thing might push him away. With Julian it wasn't about prot...
STEPHANIE GARBER
Scarlett, always save something to fear—even as you save something to love.
MARGARET MITCHELL
My stories are not Christianized at all. I don't even have any Christians in my stories. What th...
TED DEKKER
It is my belief that all gods are stories, or at least the ideas behind stories, but stories or idea...
ALAN MOORE
War stories, westerns, spy stories are all accepted as respectable because they are read by men. It ...
CHARLOTTE LAMB
These are great and evil events, along with the Holocaust, which are offensive to all of humanity.
DAWUD WALID
...not all stories have happy endings; but that doesn't mean they're not worth the read.
CASSIA LEO
The greatest events - they are not our loudest but our stillest hours
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
Lots of blooms that show color ... are not related to toxic events.
MATT HUNTER
Stories of absurd events in life get my creative juices flowing and have so far given birth to some ...
SIMON ZINGERMAN
I think people are seeing Tyrus Thomas and think all of my players are just like that. He's the only...
JOHN BRADY
Perhaps all love stories no matter how varied are essentially the same.
ROY L. PICKERING JR.
I bare my soul and you are suspicious! No, Scarlett, this is a bona fide honorable declaration. I ad...
MARGARET MITCHELL
That was a memorable day to me, for it made great changes in me. But it is the same with any life. I...
CHARLES DICKENS
Thomas lived a life we can all aspire to and learn from.
MIKE SINGLETARY
Each affects the other, and the other affects the next, and the world is full of stories, but the st...
MITCH ALBOM
All stories are lies. But good stories are lies made from light and fire. And they lift our hearts o...
MIKE CAREY
Thomas saith unto him, Lord, we know not whither thou goest; and how can we know the way? / Jesus sa...
BIBLE
They are both solid runners. I don't know if Porter will play against us or not, but Thomas is a goo...
CHRIS PARDUE
There just has not been enough time to plan this with all the other events.
LIZ EILF

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SCARLETT THOMAS
I'm a great believer in gathering together all your obsessions and seeing if you can make a nove...
SCARLETT THOMAS
But I quite like the way you can talk about science without necessarily using mathematics, but using...
SCARLETT THOMAS
People make events into stories. Stories give events meaning.
SCARLETT THOMAS
I think predictability is built into any good novel in some way - you begin reading Anna Karenina an...
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SCARLETT THOMAS
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SCARLETT THOMAS
Homeopaths argue that water has a memory.
SCARLETT THOMAS
It's nice to have a crush on someone. It feels like you're alive, you know?
SCARLETT JOHANSSON
I still eat a burger at a counter with ketchup dripping down my face.
SCARLETT JOHANSSON
Chocolate cake is the bomb!
SCARLETT POMERS
LA's a very hard place to be unless you have people there that love you. It can be very, very lo...
SCARLETT JOHANSSON
There's no such thing as an aura of mystery anymore. It doesn't exist. That's a thing of...
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I've seen enough cowboys in my life to know I don't want one for a husband."
...Victoria
"...
SCARLETT DUNN
The Iraqi military are able to deploy these weapons within 45 minutes of a decision to do so.
JOHN SCARLETT
I value my privacy and my personal life - and I certainly don't exploit my personal life.
SCARLETT JOHANSSON
Girl With a Pearl Earring.
SCARLETT JOHANSSON
Well, the pot is calling the kettle black...!
SCARLETT O'HARA
It's important for people to figure out their own lives before involving someone else - to gauge...
SCARLETT JOHANSSON
If you feel glamorous, you definitely look glamorous.
SCARLETT JOHANSSON
It's a required part of your film history to know who Woody is. His movies are so wonderful, and...
SCARLETT JOHANSSON
I would never knowingly go into a film that I wouldn't pay to see, or something that didn't ...
SCARLETT JOHANSSON
Satan is a slick character. To me, he's actually very appealing. He's not scary. That's kind of how ...
SCARLETT KNIGHT
Just knowing he will not be here Christmas morning when they unwrap the gifts and that type of thing...
ANNETTE SCARLETT
Just the bond that he had with the kids, I did not realize how strong that was and how much he did w...
ANNETTE SCARLETT
As a married couple you kinda take for granted the little moments. Just being able to come home and ...
ANNETTE SCARLETT
Iron Jawed Angels.
SCARLETT JOHANSSON
I've never had sex with Benicio Del Toro in a lift. It was a sarcastic quote that I unfortunately ga...
SCARLETT JOHANSSON
Uh, Disneyland Drive right on the entrance to the 5 Freeway . . . actually we pulled off to the side...
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It's a lovely, lovely place to come and visit and the shopping is fantastic. I'm very happy to be he...
SCARLETT JOHANSSON
I definitely believe in plastic surgery. I don't want to be an old hag. There's no fun in that.
SCARLETT JOHANSSON
I don't go to McDonald's anymore. After I saw Super Size Me... no way!
SCARLETT JOHANSSON
If you're comfortable with yourself, then it's sexy. Maybe people think I look sexy because I feel s...
SCARLETT JOHANSSON
I hope they make a video game of me. At least I wouldn't have any cellulite then.
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Hi, we've just gotten into a car accident, um, we're way in Disneyland Drive.
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I said, 'Women don't normally sleep in a bra. I can't wake up in this scene wearing a bra, it's ridi...
SCARLETT JOHANSSON
Unfortunately, we have a bunch of paparazzi cars following us,
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Woody would be very happy if I wore the kind of dress I wore in the movie, white and linen, but I do...
SCARLETT JOHANSSON
I just adored working with Woody. He was more than I could have ever dreamed of. I'd do it a million...
SCARLETT JOHANSSON
You must never underestimate your opposition.
JOHN SCARLETT
I’ve never considered myself a femme fatale as I’ve never seduced anyone and ruined their lives....
SCARLETT JOHANSSON
The fender-bender was induced by the paparazzi, who chased her for 45 minutes,
SCARLETT JOHANSSON
It's a very emotional and touching scene when the chaplain comes to her and explains her son has die...
SCARLETT KNIGHT
Too long spent denying each other, we no longer hid our want.
SCARLETT DAWN
I definitely believe in plastic surgery. I don't want to be an old hag. There's no fun in th...
SCARLETT JOHANSSON
The more people talk about eating disorders, the more people get the real story about what they'...
SCARLETT POMERS
Whenever I'm taking time off, all I'm thinking about is working.
SCARLETT JOHANSSON
These tabloid magazines - I think they're hideous and the downfall of society.
SCARLETT JOHANSSON
I'm not anxious to starve myself. For me, it's not at all sexy to be ultra-thin.
SCARLETT JOHANSSON
I believe in finding a soulmate.
SCARLETT JOHANSSON
It’s the beauty that helps us return from the harshness. If it wasn’t there, we would have nothi...
SCARLETT DAWN
Keep a big glass of cool water close while reading this one. —Margaret Smith
SCARLETT AVERY
Best series ever so far. —Desi
SCARLETT AVERY
Hang on for a wild ride full of domineering and sexy as sin stallions! —Speedefrog
SCARLETT AVERY
Hot, raunchy and funny. —GiveMeBooks
SCARLETT AVERY
Our office does not appoint special prosecutors, nor do we have jurisdiction to investigate the crim...
JUANITA SCARLETT
We are studying the opinion.
JUANITA SCARLETT
I love the whole DJ vibe thing.
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I'm not mad at him. I think he's a guy that's starting his TV career and he's making a bit of an exc...
SCARLETT JOHANSSON
When you look at death, it makes you understand the importance of the moment when you have life and ...
MICKALENE THOMAS
The disembodied spirit is immortal; there is nothing of it that can grow old or die. But the embodie...
THOMAS HOBBES
Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or ev...
THOMAS SOWELL
Many are needed to plant and water what has been planted now that the faith has spread so far and th...
THOMAS BECKET
I'm a voyeur. I say that with no embarrassment. If I could have a superpower, being invisible wo...
THOMAS SCHLAMME
A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.
THOMAS PAINE
If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.
THOMAS PAINE
I'm lazy but generally task oriented so having a hoop to jump through means eventually I'll ...
THOMAS LYNCH
Nothing makes us more vulnerable than loneliness, except greed.
THOMAS HARRIS
It's fascinating that people, there's so many people now who will make judgments based on wh...
CLARENCE THOMAS
Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
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Love and a red rose can't be hid.
THOMAS HOLCROFT
Imagine a political system so radical as to promise to move more of the poorest 20% of the populatio...
THOMAS SOWELL
One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonor...
THOMAS SOWELL
The problem isn't that Johnny can't read. The problem isn't even that Johnny can't t...
THOMAS SOWELL
Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of ...
THOMAS SOWELL
The word 'racism' is like ketchup. It can be put on practically anything - and demanding evi...
THOMAS SOWELL
That which we obtain too easily, we esteem too lightly.
THOMAS PAINE
The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.
THOMAS PAINE
I believe in the equality of man; and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, lovi...
THOMAS PAINE
Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting ...
THOMAS PAINE
An army of principles can penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot.
THOMAS PAINE
These are the times that try men's souls.
THOMAS PAINE
What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value...
THOMAS PAINE
Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man.
THOMAS PAINE
There is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of mind while we live here; because life itself is ...
THOMAS HOBBES
No man's error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it.
THOMAS HOBBES
Not believing in force is the same as not believing in gravitation.
THOMAS HOBBES
Sudden glory is the passion which maketh those grimaces called laughter.
THOMAS HOBBES
Words are the money of fools.
THOMAS HOBBES
I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after pow...
THOMAS HOBBES
Man should not consider his material possession his own, but as common to all, so as to share them w...
THOMAS AQUINAS
God should not be called an individual substance, since the principal of individuation is matter.
THOMAS AQUINAS
How can we live in harmony? First we need to know we are all madly in love with the same God.
THOMAS AQUINAS
If, then, you are looking for the way by which you should go, take Christ, because He Himself is the...
THOMAS AQUINAS
It is clear that he does not pray, who, far from uplifting himself to God, requires that God shall l...
THOMAS AQUINAS
The test of the artist does not lie in the will with which he goes to work, but in the excellence of...
THOMAS AQUINAS
Law is nothing other than a certain ordinance of reason for the common good, promulgated by the pers...
THOMAS AQUINAS
Good can exist without evil, whereas evil cannot exist without good.
THOMAS AQUINAS
The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.
THOMAS PAINE
An injured friend is the bitterest of foes.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
If someone had told me when I was a kid I'd get an ovation from Frank Sinatra! One time, I did a...
IRWIN THOMAS
I'm not even allowed to sing in the shower at home. Too loud.
IRWIN THOMAS
I was born into a world where a lot of people who came to the house were performers.
IRWIN THOMAS
I was always one of those fortunate people who never wanted to be anything other than a singer and a...
IRWIN THOMAS
People refer to me as 'that 'Love Boat' man.'
IRWIN THOMAS
I find great beauty in songs with a creative interpretation, but most people generally don't get...
IRWIN THOMAS
I particularly like Hershey's chocolate - the kind which has almonds in it.
IRWIN THOMAS
Because I'm shy and a bit quiet, I think people assume I'm an elegant person.
IRWIN THOMAS
My grandfather was from Aberdare. He was a coal miner who emigrated and then continued mining in Pen...
IRWIN THOMAS
When people say to me 'what do you think of rap music?' my answer is there's no such thi...
IRWIN THOMAS
I believe in the players and what I've put together and we'll make it work.
ISAIAH THOMAS
Larry Brown thought Steve Francis was a Larry Brown type of player.
ISAIAH THOMAS
All of those things had been talked about, suggested, rumored, as a manager and as a member of the K...
ISAIAH THOMAS
I'll continue to try to make changes to better improve the team.
ISAIAH THOMAS
We decided to go the way of trading and getting younger players.
ISAIAH THOMAS
We were going to have to experiment, and we needed to develop our younger players. And a lot of the ...
ISAIAH THOMAS
It's been made clear to all of us that a player should never leave the playing field and go into...
ISAIAH THOMAS
My thought has always been completion. Maybe you have to rebound better, shoot better, hit free thro...
ISAIAH THOMAS
The type of athletes we draft still need types of versatility on the defense side of the ball, run t...
ISAIAH THOMAS
It wasn't about the X's and the O's and the strategy; it was more about keeping 12 guys ...
ISAIAH THOMAS
Everybody wants to be perfect.
ISAIAH THOMAS
You're always at war with the guy on the other bench. You pick up their patterns. That's wha...
ISAIAH THOMAS
I love what I'm doing.
ISAIAH THOMAS
You have to develop your whole game to completion.
ISAIAH THOMAS
It was important to me to believe, because if I don't believe, how can I expect them to believe?
ISAIAH THOMAS
It's hard to get people to overcome the thought that they have to take care of themselves first....
ISAIAH THOMAS
My greatest gift that I have in life is basketball.
ISAIAH THOMAS
Titles are but nicknames, and every nickname is a title.
THOMAS PAINE
Capitalism knows only one color: that color is green; all else is necessarily subservient to it, hen...
THOMAS SOWELL
A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.
THOMAS AQUINAS
I always get more applause than votes.
NORMAN THOMAS
To us Americans much has been given; of us much is required. With all our faults and mistakes, it is...
NORMAN THOMAS
Kennedy said that if we had nuclear war we'd kill 300 million people in the first hour. McNamara...
NORMAN THOMAS
If you want a symbolic gesture, don't burn the flag; wash it.
NORMAN THOMAS
I walk where I choose to walk.
NORMAN THOMAS
Raising the minimum wage isn't just pro-worker; it's pro-economic growth.
THOMAS PEREZ
The real minimum wage is zero.
THOMAS SOWELL
Raising the minimum wage to $10.10 will benefit about 28 million workers across the country. And it ...
THOMAS PEREZ
Do all children have some inherent right to live in America if they have done nothing wrong? If not,...
THOMAS SOWELL
The obligation of subjects to the sovereign is understood to last as long, and no longer, than the p...
THOMAS HOBBES
You never enjoy the world aright, till the sea itself floweth in your veins, till you are clothed wi...
THOMAS TRAHERNE
The most successful war seldom pays for its losses.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
The second office in the government is honorable and easy; the first is but a splendid misery.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor ...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
So confident am I in the intentions, as well as wisdom, of the government, that I shall always be sa...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Euro...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their be...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was a...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
If there is one principle more deeply rooted in the mind of every American, it is that we should hav...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
The natural cause of the human mind is certainly from credulity to skepticism.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
One loves to possess arms, though they hope never to have occasion for them.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he ...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves a...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our o...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
No duty the Executive had to perform was so trying as to put the right man in the right place.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
It is our duty still to endeavor to avoid war; but if it shall actually take place, no matter by who...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful an...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
Don't talk about what you have done or what you are going to do.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
Commerce changes the fate and genius of nations.
THOMAS GRAY
Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
Nothing is unchangeable but the inherent and unalienable rights of man.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
It is always better to have no ideas than false ones; to believe nothing, than to believe what is wr...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
No freeman shall be debarred the use of arms.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
No man will ever carry out of the Presidency the reputation which carried him into it.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
He who knows best knows how little he knows.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have,...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by educat...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.
NORMAN THOMAS
Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion.
THOMAS MANN
One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO.
THOMAS CARLYLE
The black family survived centuries of slavery and generations of Jim Crow, but it has disintegrated...
THOMAS SOWELL
It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
THOMAS MANN
Doctors, dressed up in one professional costume or another, have been in busy practice since the ear...
LEWIS THOMAS
It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
Liberalism is totalitarianism with a human face.
THOMAS SOWELL
It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those ...
THOMAS SOWELL
The things that we love tell us what we are.
THOMAS AQUINAS
The most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not work. Therefore ...
THOMAS SOWELL