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I think candidates can emerge from all sorts of places. – Clarke Tucker	Found on CNN 10 years ago
When you have a wiretap on someone you pick up all sorts of dreck. But in terms of the political history that ironically the FBI has created for us, it's a wonderful resource. – David Garrow	Found on CNN 10 years ago
When there is a marriage to be made (in the village, monarchs) will return to sort it out. In these sorts of matters, they do retain a lot of power. – Richard Dowden	Found on CNN 10 years ago
A year like this sorts out what kind of investor you are. – Jeff Tjornehoj	Found on Reuters 10 years ago
I had fun playing all sorts of old instruments on the record and I think we achieved a pretty full sound from the trashcan to the pipe wrench. – Chuck Ragan	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Reason sits firm and holds the reins, and she will not let the feelings burst away and hurry her to wild chasms. The passions may rage furiously, like true heathens, as they are; and the desires may imagine all sorts of vain things: but judgment shall still have the last word in every argument, and the casting vote in every decision. – Charlotte Brontë	added by anonymous 11 years ago
This is a war universe. War all the time. That is its nature. There may be other universes based on all sorts of other principles, but ours seems to be based on war and games. – William S. Burroughs	added by anonymous 11 years ago
Nothing so obstinately stands in the way of all sorts of progress as pride of opinion. While nothing is so foolish and baseless. – Josiah Gilbert Holland	added by anonymous 11 years ago
People in America, of course, live in all sorts of fashions, because they are foreigners, or unlucky, or depraved, or without ambition; people live like that, but Americans live in white detached houses with green shutters. Rigidly, blindly, the dream takes precedence. – Margaret Mead	added by anonymous 11 years ago
Would you not like to try all sorts of lives -- one is so very small -- but that is the satisfaction of writing -- one can impersonate so many people. – Katherine Mansfield	added by anonymous 11 years ago
These Negroes, they're getting pretty uppity these days and that's a problem for us since they've got something now they never had before, the political pull to back up their uppityness. Now we've got to do something about this, we've got to give them a little something, just enough to quiet them down, not enough to make a difference. For if we don't move at all, then their allies will line up against us and there'll be no way of stopping them, we'll lose the filibuster and there'll be no way of putting a brake on all sorts of wild legislation. It'll be Reconstruction all over again. – Lyndon B. Johnson	added by anonymous 11 years ago
A wound inflicted by arrows heals, a wood cut down by an axe grows, but harsh words are hateful?a wound inflicted by them does not heal. Arrows of different sorts can be extracted from the body, but a word-dart cannot be drawn out, for it is seated in the heart. – Mahabharata	added by anonymous 13 years ago
All the problems of the world could be settled if people were only willing to think. The trouble is that people very often resort to all sorts of devices in order not to think, because thinking is such hard work. – Thomas J. Watson	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Freedom, then, lies only in our innate human capacity to choose between different sorts of bondage, bondage to desire or self esteem, or bondage to the light that lightens all our lives. – Sri Madhava	added by anonymous 14 years ago
It is characteristic of the military mentality that nonhuman factors (atom bombs, strategic bases, weapons of all sorts, the possession of raw materials, etc) are held essential, while the human being, his desires, and thoughts - in short, the psychological factors - are considered as unimportant and secondary...The individual is degraded...to human material. – Albert Einstein	added by anonymous 14 years ago
You may use different sorts of sentences and illustrations before different sorts of audiences, but you don't -- if you are wise -- talk down to any audience. – Norman Thomas	added by anonymous 15 years ago
There are two sorts of curiosity -- the momentary and the permanent. The momentary is concerned with the odd appearance on the surface of things. The permanent is attracted by the amazing and consecutive life that flows on beneath the surface of things. – Robert Lynd	added by anonymous 15 years ago
When the Special Theory of Relativity began to germinate in me, I was visited by all sorts of nervous conflicts... I used to go away for weeks in a state of confusion. – Albert Einstein	added by anonymous 15 years ago
The shortage of student loans may require ... divestiture of certain sorts-stereo divestiture, automobile divestiture, three-weeks-at-the-beach divestiture. – William John Bennett	added by anonymous 15 years ago
It takes all sorts to make a world. – Miguel Cerbantes	added by anonymous 15 years ago
All the problems of the world could be settled easily if men were only willing to think. The trouble is that men very often resort to all sorts of devices in order not to think, because thinking is such hard work. – Thomas John Watson, Sr.	added by anonymous 15 years ago

I think candidates can emerge from all sorts of places.

– Clarke Tucker

Found on CNN
10 years ago

When you have a wiretap on someone you pick up all sorts of dreck. But in terms of the political history that ironically the FBI has created for us, it's a wonderful resource.

– David Garrow

Found on CNN
10 years ago

When there is a marriage to be made (in the village, monarchs) will return to sort it out. In these sorts of matters, they do retain a lot of power.

– Richard Dowden

Found on CNN
10 years ago

A year like this sorts out what kind of investor you are.

– Jeff Tjornehoj

Found on Reuters
10 years ago

I had fun playing all sorts of old instruments on the record and I think we achieved a pretty full sound from the trashcan to the pipe wrench.

– Chuck Ragan

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Reason sits firm and holds the reins, and she will not let the feelings burst away and hurry her to wild chasms. The passions may rage furiously, like true heathens, as they are; and the desires may imagine all sorts of vain things: but judgment shall still have the last word in every argument, and the casting vote in every decision.

– Charlotte Brontë