Among Quotes

Of course in science there are things that are open to doubt and things need to be discussed. But among the things that science does know, evolution is about as certain as anything we know.

I feel as if I'm clearly part of a trend among writers who take themselves seriously - and I confess to taking myself as seriously as the next writer.

There is a serious tendency toward capitalism among the well-to-do peasants.

Even though the museums guarding their precious property fence everything off, in my own studio, I made them so you and I could walk in and around, and among these sculptures.

Among the notable things about fire is that it also requires oxygen to burn - exactly like its enemy, life. Thereby are life and flames so often compared.

The instrument that I never learned how to play was my fans. You know, they are the part of the story that nobody teaches you. I just want to do the right thing; I want to be a voice with them, among them.

American literature has never been content to be just one among the many literatures of the Western World. It has always aspired to be the literature not only of a new continent but of a New World.

Unfortunately, goodness and honor are rather the exception than the rule among exceptional men, not to speak of geniuses.

Among absent lovers, ardor always fares better.

At one level you're condemned to the voice you have. But within those confines, you have a certain amount of freedom to range among your possible voices.

The broadest pattern of history - namely, the differences between human societies on different continents - seems to me to be attributable to differences among continental environments, and not to biological differences among peoples themselves.

In recent years, the choice of drugs on these reservations and throughout my district has been methamphetamines. It has destroyed the rule of law among the reservation people. It is killing our tribal youth in this country.

Results are uncertain even among the more experienced photographers.

When I first started working in politics, as a junior aide on Walter Mondale's 1984 presidential campaign, it never occurred to me that I would one day work in the White House. There were plenty of women among the volunteers who stuffed envelopes and walked precincts. But there were fewer and fewer on each successive level of influence and access.

The real truth is that the Obama administration is professional at bullying, as we have witnessed with ACORN at work during the presidential campaign. It seems to me they are sending down their bullies to create fist fights among average American citizens who don't want a government-run health care plan forced upon them.

Barack Obama is many things; among them, he is a tough and even ferocious political warrior.

Back then when Chomsky and Herman wrote, the left, myself among them, all knew that something terrible was happening in Vietnam, though most now claim to remember otherwise.

Whenever I am among my fellow Governors, I am struck by how many face the same education improvement issues.

Because Hightower's problem, among other things, is that advertisers would be a lot less interested in his show than in Limbaugh's, even if they have similar ratings, because of what Hightower is saying.

There is much boasting among the young men about their teams as their horse and carts in Cleveland. Most of the Yorkshire men take as much delight in their ox draught as they used to do in their Horse Draught.

There is no great sport in having bullets flying about one in every direction, but I find they have less horror when among them than when in anticipation.

Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.

I look askance at any movement which assists in making the peacemaker among nations merely a national warrior.

There were no temples or shrines among us save those of nature.

In a free society the state does not administer the affairs of men. It administers justice among men who conduct their own affairs.

What practical conclusions may we now draw for our propaganda work among women? The task of this Party Congress must not be to issue detailed practical suggestions, but to draw up general directions for the proletarian women's movement.

Drinking habits were very prevalent among men, and were not in any way disgraceful, unless excessive.

Shoot for the moon and if you miss you will still be among the stars.

Among the best traitors Ireland has ever had, Mother Church ranks at the very top, a massive obstacle in the path to equality and freedom. She has been a force for conservatism... to ward off threats to her own security and influence.

The Japanese put houses in among the trees and allowed nature to gain the ascendancy in any composition.