It is the union of independence and dependence of these branches - legislative, executive and judicial - and of the governmental functions… — J. Reuben Clark Copy Share Image
A marvellous power of expression over language often distinguishes genius; but Shakespeare in his phrases seems independent of the bonds of language… — George Edward Woodberry Copy Share Image
Learn by heart the forms to be found in nature, so that you can use them like the notes in a musical… — Max Beckmann Copy Share Image
Cricket has so many meanings to so many Australians. It’s become precisely that - an Australian way of life. And what a… — Richie Benaud Copy Share Image
“The guilt you felt when you were smiling and others were suffering, the guilt you felt when you were petty with friends… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
The marvellous thing about writing, whether it be fiction or journalism, is that it is simultaneously the most intimate and the most… — Will Self Copy Share Image
Battles, revolutions, pestilence, famine, and death, are never the effect of those natural causes, which we experience. Prodigies,omens, oracles, judgments, quite obscure… — David Hume Copy Share Image
I usually say the aim of life is to be happy. Our existence is based on hope. Our life is rooted in… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
The water is this marvellous blue. It’s so blue that once you see it you realise you’ve never seen blue before. That… — Niall Williams Copy Share Image
I once read somewhere that Sean Connery left school at the age of 13 and later went on to read Proust and… — Helen DeWitt Copy Share Image
As soon as I find myself in the presence of a rich man, I cannot help looking upon him as an exceptional… — Octave Mirbeau Copy Share Image
If we are not fully ourselves, truly in the present moment, we miss everything. When a child presents himself to you with… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
I had a teacher in Paris, who said that if an actor forgot what it's like to play as a child he… — Simon McBurney Copy Share Image
The marvellous instinct with which women are usually credited seems too often to desert them on the only occasions when it would… — Ada Leverson Copy Share Image
No physiologist who calmly considers the question in connection with the general truths of his science, can long resist the conviction that… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
At seventy-three I learned a little about the real structure of animals, plants, birds, fishes and insects. Consequently when I am eighty… — Hokusai Copy Share Image
Don't neglect your critical faculties. Remember that God is a rational God, who has made us in His own image. God invites… — John Stott Copy Share Image
“Trust a witness in all matters in which neither his self-interest, his passions, his prejudices, nor the love of the marvellous is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I was composing before I realised I was a composer. It came more or less naturally. There were a couple of old… — Richard Meale Copy Share Image
The many instances of forged miracles, and prophecies, and supernatural events, which, in all ages, have either been detected by contrary evidence,… — David Hume Copy Share Image
There are few persons, even among the calmest thinkers, who have not occasionally been startled into a vague yet thrilling half credence… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
