All the bayonets of the Army cannot force the Negro into our homes, into our schools, our churches and our places of… — Strom Thurmond Copy Share Image
Dancing is at once rational & healthful: it gives animal spirits; it is the natural amusement of young people, & such it… — William Cobbett Copy Share Image
It is exceedingly deleterious to withdraw the sanction of religion from amusement. If we feel that it is all injurious we should… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
What doubts, what hypotheses, what labyrinths of amusement, what fields of disputation, what an ocean of false learning, may be avoided by… — George Berkeley Copy Share Image
When I started on Disneyland, my wife used to say, 'But why do you want to build an amusement park? They're so… — Walt Disney Copy Share Image
It must be observed that fishing with any living bait is to be condemned for the same reason as fishing with a… — Thomas Young Copy Share Image
Art is not an amusement, nor a distraction, nor is it, as many men maintain, an escape from life. On the contrary,… — Lawren Harris Copy Share Image
Why needs a man be rich? Why must he have horses, fine garments, handsome apartments, access to public houses, and places of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
JESTER, n. An officer attached to the king's household to amuse the court by ludicrous actions and utterances . . . the… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
About California... "I thought it was an appalling place. Then I went through a period of being amused by it. Now it's… — Alex Kingston Copy Share Image
Sports exact too harsh a toll on our beautiful women. Like engendered species, they should be protected, and instead, we exploit them… — Kevin Bleyer Copy Share Image
Goodness gracious me,” exclaimed Alexia, “what are you wearing? It looks like the unfortunate progeny of an illicit union between a pair… — Gail Carriger Copy Share Image
We can take it slow," he said. "You can learn to be with me. Find out what I'm all about. You never… — Annette Curtis Klause Copy Share Image
One of the things that's attractive about cyberspace is that it can be construed as no threat. If you see it through… — Jerry Garcia Copy Share Image
I do not think you are in any danger of starving," Maximus said. "The surgeon said only two weeks ago that you… — Naomi Novik Copy Share Image
“Lord John: 'The court has suffered most sorely for your absence. We hardly know where to find our amusement now.' Lady Nora:… — Meredith Duran Copy Share Image
Storytelling and copulation are the two chief forms of amusement in the South. Theyre inexpensive and easy to procure. — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
Painting is not for me either decorative amusement, or the plastic invention of felt reality; it must be every time: invention, discovery,… — Max Ernst Copy Share Image
Nothing really mattered that much, not the good things and not the bad ones. We were in the business of mutual amusement,… — John Green Copy Share Image
Men will look back in amusement at the pretence that once caused people to refer to General Dynamics and North American Aviation… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
...Nefret said with a gusty sigh, 'Well, that's done it. We may as well join in, Ramses, family arguments are the favorite… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I take the most wrenchingly painful moments of my life, brush them off and present them for the amusement of others. Luckily… — Aisha Tyler Copy Share Image
Opinions: men's thoughts about great subjects. Taste: their thoughts about small ones: dress, behavior, amusements, ornaments. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The happy life is regarded as a life in conformity with virtue. It is a life which involves effort and is not… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Seamen have a custom, when they meet a whale, to fling him out an empty tub by way of amusement, to divert… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
When I started with music, all I was looking for was to ensure I never had to live the life I grew… — Josh Tillman Copy Share Image
Everyone now agrees that a physics lacking all connection with mathematics ... would only be an historical amusement, fitter for entertaining the… — Franz Karl Achard Copy Share Image
A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat. — Logan Pearsall Smith Copy Share Image
If a work of art is placed before me, I believe I can enjoy it; but I do not overlook the fact,… — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
The happy life is thought to be one of excellence; now an excellent life requires exertion, and does not consist in amusement. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
If life is merely a joke, the question still remains: for whose amusement? No one knows what he can do till he… — Publilius Syrus Copy Share Image
And usually [the philosopher] philosophizes either in order to resign himself to life, or to seek some finality in it, or to… — Miguel de Unamuno Copy Share Image
Ordinary people simply don't know what books mean to us, shut up here. Reading, learning, and the radio are our amusements. — Anne Frank Copy Share Image
I love sporting events and popcorn and pizza and being outside, like at a baseball or football game. I love amusement parks,… — Carrie Underwood Copy Share Image
I cannot live without books: but fewer will suffice where amusement, and not use, is the only future object. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Of all the creatures that man kills for his amusement there is only one that he kills out of hatred—other men. Man… — Halldór Laxness Copy Share Image
“I would never treat you like a butterfly, like something I’ve captured for my own amusement. I’d never pin you to a… — Sylvain Reynard Copy Share Image
It is a good thing to write for the amusement of the public, but it is a far higher and nobler thing… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I’m bored to death. Perhaps I should pillage one of my neighbors for my own amusement. It seems to work for Drowden. — Kristin Cashore Copy Share Image
I believe this thought, of the possibility of death - if calmly realised, and steadily faced would be one of the best… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
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