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
I cannot live without books: but fewer will suffice where amusement, and not use, is the only future object. — Thomas Jefferson 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
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
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
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
Brits and Americans have hundreds of different phrases for the same thing. Luckily, it's usually a source of amusement rather than frustration.… — Sloane Crosley Copy Share Image
True, we [lawyers] build no bridges. We raise no towers. We construct no engines. We paint no pictures—unless as amateurs for our… — John W. Davis Copy Share Image
It has to be now,” he insisted, a flick of amusement in his voice. He nudged his burgeoning loins against her. “After… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
Cultivate the habit of thinkingahead, and of anticipating thenecessary and immediate consequences of all your actions… Likewise in your pleasures, ask yourself… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is no excuse for keeping wild animals in amusement parks or circuses. Until our governments take action, we should avoid supporting… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
That's a hobby of mine - to do whatever I can for unusual for-hire creative projects. I am waiting for someone to… — Roman Coppola Copy Share Image
The use of knowledge in our sex (beside the amusement of solitude) is to moderate the passions and learn to be contented… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Act as if the universe is a prodigious miracle created for your amusement and illumination. Assume that secret helpers are working behind… — Rob Brezsny 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
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
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
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
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
Sir Walter Elliot, of Kellynch-hall, in Somersetshire, was a man who, for his own amusement, never took up any book but the… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
In the mind of all, fiction, in the logical sense, has been the coin of necessity;—in that of poets of amusement—in that… — Jeremy Bentham Copy Share Image
Discipline brings us effort, sacrifice and suffering. Later it brings us something of an inestimable value: something of which those who live… — Alexis Carrel Copy Share Image
It was a laugh that came from the tip of his toes, gaining force and soul as it traveled through his body… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
It's always a thrilling experience to go into a place that offers you a lot of choice. You know it's like it… — Sheena Iyengar Copy Share Image
Who should listen to discussions of theology? Those for whom it is a serious undertaking, not just another subject like any other… — Gregory of Nazianzus Copy Share Image
The golden hour of invention must terminate like other hours, and when the man of genius returns to the cares, the duties,… — Isaac D'Israeli Copy Share Image
There are two ways of dealing with nonsense in this world. One way is to put nonsense in the right place; as… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Do you dance, Mr. Darcy?" Darcy: "Not if I can help it!" Sir William: "What a charming amusement for young people this… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
What real good does an addition to a fortune already sufficient procure? Not any. Could the great man, by having his fortune… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
A symbol is indeed the only possible expression of some invisible essence, a transparent lamp about a spiritual flame; while allegory is… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
The Stoics say, "Retire within yourselves; it is there you will find your rest." And that is not true. Others say, "Go… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins. We parry and fend the approach of our… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
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