Music, unleashed, can uplift and create and destroy, stripping away pretenses and leaving raw, exposed vulnerability behind. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In learning and argumentation, the quality brain is similar to a facility of maximum security. What passes the logic test, free of… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Evil, which is our companion all our days, is not to be treated as a foe. It is wrong to cocker vice,… — Edward Dahlberg Copy Share Image
Trump makes no pretense about being the commander in chief of all of the country, being president of all of the people,… — Steve Schmidt Copy Share Image
The scientist who yields anything to theology, however slight, is yielding to ignorance and false pretenses, and as certainly as if he… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“It was thus, Archer reflected, that New York managed its transitions; conspiring to ignore them till they were well over, and then,… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
Rather than rewriting the law under the pretense of interpreting it, the Court should have left it to Congress to decide what… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
Prudishness is pretense of innocence without innocence. Women have to remain prudish as long as men are sentimental, dense, and evil enough… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
“Character that is fruit-producing can be summed up in the mastery of these 5 qualities: morals, but a sense of humor; love,… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“Perfect' - the most misattributed word in English language A 'perfect' thing can never be improved - at least by what the… — Eniitan Akinola Copy Share Image
I do think that Republicans are flirting with their tax cut, which has always been the narcotic of Republicans, that they in… — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
I had come to discover that "safe" was an illusion, a pretense that adults wrapped around their children- and sometimes themselves- to… — Holly Lisle Copy Share Image
Churches are tax exempt because they are supposed to provide a public good. To prove that good to the IRS, churches arent… — Lawrence Wright Copy Share Image
Love is a choice — not simply, or necessarily, a rational choice, but rather a willingness to be present to others without… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
They trespassed upon my thoughts. They were intruders whose knowledge of life was to me an irritating pretense, because I felt so… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Our senior officers knew the war was going badly. Yet they bowed to groupthink pressure and kept up pretenses. ...Many of my… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
“I can do everything with my language but not with my body. What I hide by my language, my body utters. I… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
The chief difference between free capitalism and State socialism seems to be this: that under the former a man pursues his own… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“After we passed a few more houses, the street ceased to mantain any pretense of urbanity, like a man returning to his… — Bruno Schulz Copy Share Image
Perhaps there is no other knowing than the mere competence of the act. If at the heart of one's being, there is… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Life in general has never been even close to fair, so the pretense that the government can make it fair is a… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Prison is a crash course in the darker side of life. Few survive it without becoming a different person: more cynical, jaded,… — Peter McWilliams Copy Share Image
“Most sane human beings’ chances of being alive in a thousand years’ time are a hundred times higher than their chances of… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
If the state polls are right, then Mr. Obama will win the Electoral College. If you can't acknowledge that after a day… — Nate Silver Copy Share Image
“Authenticity is the sine qua non of everything that matters. When you encounter someone unguarded, without artifice or pretense--Mon Dieu!--you know it.… — Ellen Lubin-Sherman Copy Share Image
We must make our choice between economy and liberty or confusion and servitude...If we run into such debts, we must be taxed… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“My correspondence has certainly the charm of variety, and the humbler are usually the more interesting. This looks like one of those… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Grading creative writing is always an ethical dilemma. But what you brought up about grading personal stories versus the research paper is… — Debra Monroe Copy Share Image
“The threat to men of great dignity, privilege and pretense is not from the radicals they revile; it is from accepting their… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
There is a constant rush to judgment in Foucault. He is filled with specious generalizations, false categories, distortions, fudging, pretenses to knowledge… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Competence in heterosexuality, or at least the appearance or pretense of such competence, is as much a public affair as a privateone.… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
The protection of the masses has in all times been the pretense of tyranny - the plea of monarchy, of aristocracy, of… — Henry George Copy Share Image
“As they walked out of the store, Ifemelu said, “I was waiting for her to ask ‘Was it the one with two… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
It seems to me that socialists today can preserve their position in academic economics merely by the pretense that the differences are… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
A real woman understands that man was created to be the initiator, and she operates on that premise. This is primarily a… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
Hip-hop is not about pretense. You can be missing an eye; you can have an ice-cream cone in your face; you can… — Brian Tyree Henry Copy Share Image
It is said slavery is all we are fighting for, and if we give it up we give up all. Even if… — Patrick Cleburne Copy Share Image
Play exists for its own sake. Play is for the moment; it is not hurried, even when the pace is fast and… — Margaret Guenther Copy Share Image
I despise and abhor the pleas on behalf of that infamous practice, vivisection... I would rather submit to the worst of deaths,… — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
Because the church has moved away from the gospel anytime you move away from the gospel, you at the same time move… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
