Quotes of: Declarations Keyword

As soon as war is declared it will be impossible to hold the poets back. Rhyme is still the most effective drum.

Jean Giraudoux

..by honouring the demands of our bleeding, our blood gives us something in return. The crazed bitch from irritation hell recedes. In her place arises a side of ourselves with whom we may not-at first- be comfortable. She is a vulnerable, highly perc...

Cunt: A Declaration of Independence

Chester nods all the way through this, but does not rudely interrupt Randy as a younger nerd would. Your younger nerd takes offense quickly when someone near him begins to utter declarative sentences, because he reads into it an ssertion that he, the...

Cryptonomicon

The “pursuit of happiness” is such a key element of the “American (ideological) dream” that one tends to forget the contingent origin of this phrase: “We holds these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are e...

In Defense of Lost Causes

An evolutionary perspective of our place in the history of the earth reminds us that Homo sapiens sapiens has occupied the planet for the tiniest fraction of that planet's four and a half thousand million years of existence. In many ways we are a bio...

Richard E. Leakey

, recipient of the Nobel Prize in chemistry (1903), was a declared atheist and the author of The Evolution of the Worlds and other works on cosmic physics.

The Encyclopedia of Unbelief, 2 Vols

The Heavens declare the glory of God. Lord your unfailing love is as vast as the Heavens.

Beautiful Quotes

It was now December 7, 1941; the date that Franklin D. Roosevelt was destined to declare would live in infamy.

Pearl Harbor

Your personal declaration of will is the first step in a seemingly impossible journey.

Voice of Reason

What do you do if you're an executive who resigns? You declare yourself a consultant.

Mo Ibrahim

In the Steven F. Austin Colony, which was the first colony, Texans first established a provisional government in 1835 with the intention of writing a declaration of independence soon after.

Michael McCaul

Many a revolution started with the actions of a few. Only 56 men signed the Declaration of Independence. A few hanging together can lead a nation to change.

Wynton Marsalis

Our founders got it right when they wrote in the Declaration of Independence that our rights come from nature and nature's God, not from government.

Paul Ryan

Roosevelt's declaration that Americans had 'nothing to fear but fear itself' was a glorious piece of inspirational rhetoric and just as gloriously wrong.

Russell Baker

I've been speaking at churches for years, as well as juvenile jails, rehabs and hospitals, and I always talk about my faith. That is a declaration of my relationship with God.

Smokey Robinson

Declaring independence was the most traumatic decision I had to live up to. Because I didn't want to do it.

Ian Smith

I would not run as a one-issue candidate. Anybody who does that is declaring himself to be marginal.

John Bolton

Cultural variety is always worth striving for, but must never precede the declaration of human rights.

Bjorn Ulvaeus

When anarchy is declared, the first thing we do, let's kill all the anarchists.

Craig Bruce

I'm the only P.M. of which that can be said - 'His legislation was never declared invalid in the High Court.'

Gough Whitlam

I declare and protest in advance, that I do not intend, at this time at least; to be drawn or driven into the question of slavery, in either of its subdivisions or forms.

Caleb Cushing