Whoever is writing in the United States is using the American Dream as an ironical pole of his story. People elsewhere tend… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
Fear is in almost all cases a wretched instrument of government, and ought in particular never to be employed against any order… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
A man who cannot control his temper is not very likely to control his passions, and no matter what his pretensions in… — David O. McKay Copy Share Image
Marius and Cosette did not ask where this would lead them. They looked at themselves as arrived. It is a strange pretension… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
A nation riven by factions, in which the minority has no hope of ever becoming a majority, or in which some group… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
Life is a conspiracy to shower you with a nonstop feast of interesting experiences, all of which are designed to help you… — Rob Brezsny Copy Share Image
Governments, whatever their pretensions otherwise, try to preserve themselves by holding the individual down ... Government itself, indeed, may be reasonably defined… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
I'm trying to read/edit my story as if I have no existing knowledge of the story, no investment in it, no sense… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Under the guidance of the Reich, Europe would speedily have become unified. Once the Jewish poison had been eradicated, unification would have… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
A good analogy [Charlie Hebdo] in lots of ways is "South Park" - the hugely popular American cartoon show - and the… — Adam Gopnik Copy Share Image
... semantics ... is a sober and modest discipline which has no pretensions of being a universal patent-medicine for all the ills… — Alfred Tarski Copy Share Image
Every man, however hopeless his pretensions may appear, has some project by which he hopes to rise to reputation; some art by… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Kings ought never to be seen upon the stage. In the abstract, they are very disagreeable characters: it is only while living… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
He sighed deeply: to fall in love at first sight with this malodorous sleeping girl, with, as far as he could see,… — Betty Neels Copy Share Image
What is the end of Fame? 'tis but to fill A certain portion of uncertain paper: Some liken it to climbing up… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
That politeness which we put on, in order to keep the assuming and the presumptuous at a proper distance will generally succeed.… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
On the other hand, hope is subversive, for it limits the grandiose pretension of the present, daring to announce that the present… — Walter Brueggemann Copy Share Image
It's the time of year when the literati give advice on what we should be reading on our summer holidays. These terrifying… — Arthur Smith Copy Share Image
The individual or the group which organizes any society, however social its intentions or pretensions, arrogates an inordinate portion of social privilege… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
Beneath our clothes, our reputations, our pretensions, beneath our religion or lack of it, we are all vulnerable both to the storm… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
I used to think that once a writer became a man of letters, if only for a half hour, he was done… — Dylan Thomas Copy Share Image
Honor is truly sacred, but holds a lower rank in the scale of moral excellence than virtue. Indeed the former is part… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Foreign diplomats could have modeled their conduct on the way the Negro postmen, Pullman porters, and dining car waiters of Roxbury [Massachusetts]… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
I make no pretensions to 'objectivity,' a fraudulent concept in an era of industrialized and politicized science in which intellectual mercenaries too… — Hazel Henderson Copy Share Image
Take the shortest route. The one that nature planned - to speak and act in the healthiest way. Do that, and be… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
It is the care of a very great part of mankind to conceal their indigence from the rest. They support themselves by… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“Xingu!" she scoffed. "Why, it was the fact of our knowing so much more about it than she did—unprepared though we were—that… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
Every photograph is a fiction with pretensions to truth. Despite everything that we have been inculcated, all that we believe, photography always… — Joan Fontcuberta Copy Share Image
I come from an Irish working-class background but went to a posh school, and any type of pretension was quickly mocked at… — Stephen Mangan Copy Share Image
What both the state and the capitalist economy oppose is an understanding of what might be called "the true nature of things"… — Richard A. Falk Copy Share Image
Most good writing is clear, vigorous, honest, alive, sensuous, appropriate, unsentimental, rhythmic, without pretension, fresh, metaphorical, evocative in sound, economical, authoritative, surprising,… — Ken Macrorie Copy Share Image
Man — despite his artistic pretensions, his sophistication, and his many accomplishments — owes his existence to a six inch layer of… — Paul Harvey Copy Share Image
I'd been to a lot of shows and I was just tired of people being jaded about music in general. Just a… — Girl Talk Copy Share Image
It is worth noticing that those who assume an imposing demeanor and seek to pass themselves off for something beyond what they… — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
The world is his who can see through its pretension. What deafness, what stone-blind custom, what overgrown error you behold, is there… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Pretension may sit still, but cannot act. Pretension never feigned an act of real greatness. Pretension never wrote an Iliad, nordrove back… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Nothing really succeeds which is not based on reality; sham, in a large sense, is never successful. In the life of the… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
Let's not be naive, we're not talking about a simple political battle; it is a destructive pretension against the plan of God.… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
“Just as hunters will mount the heads of the kills, white people need to let people know that they have made their… — Christian Lander Copy Share Image
I have not the slightest pretension to call my verses poetry; I write now and then for no other purpose than to… — Alfred Nobel Copy Share Image
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