“affectation of assuming everything was alive and potentially recalcitrant,” — John le Carré Copy Share Image
Advising Mrs. Harris was the least I could do," David said smoothly. "After all, she was the one who brought me and… — Sabrina Jeffries Copy Share Image
The recalcitrant forces in the historical drama have a power and persistence beyond our reckoning. — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
Words are as recalcitrant as circus animals, and the unskilled trainer can crack his whip at them in vain. — Gerald Brenan Copy Share Image
I wonder if he really could rationalize what I did to him, really treat betrayal like the slight transgression of a recalcitrant… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
I felt, as I became a later and later bloomer, alienated not just from my own recalcitrant glabrous little body but in… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
But now his dry and silent grieving for his lost wife must end, for there she stood, the fierce, recalcitrant, and fragile… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
The basic idea that incentives can be used to motivate behavior is a powerful one. It works for employees, and it has… — Emily Oster Copy Share Image
[The current governing judicial philosophy is:] If you want something passionately enough, it is guaranteed by the Constitution. No need to fiddle… — Robert Bork Copy Share Image
That sort of reception - where everything is assimilated to the world of celebrity - makes me dream of becoming a more… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
The raw material from which social institutions are fashioned is always more or less recalcitrant and any human society will tend to… — Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth Copy Share Image
Photographs are a way of imprisoning reality, understood as recalcitrant, inaccessible; of making it stand still. Or they enlarge a reality that… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
... until both employers' and workers' groups assume responsibility for chastising their own recalcitrant children, they can vainly bay the moon about… — Mary Barnett Gilson Copy Share Image
Few intellectual tyrannies can be more recalcitrant than the truths that everybody knows and nearly no one can defend with any decent… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Although a firm swat could bring a recalcitrant child swiftly into line, the changes were usually external, lasting only as long as… — Mary Blakely Copy Share Image
It's amazing how much time one can spend in a garden doing nothing at all. I sometimes think, in fact, that the… — Jane Garmey Copy Share Image
Our dreams of bringing the whole of human history under the control of the human will are ironically refuted by the fact… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
Every fact of science was once Damned. Every invention was considered impossible. Every discovery was a nervous shock to some orthodoxy. Every… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
I used to think I had no will to power. Now I perceive that I vented it on thoughts, rather than people.… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
A scientist sets out to conquer nature through knowledge - external nature, external knowledge. By these means he may split the atom… — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
So I sent Halt to straighten matters out. Thought it might be a good idea to give him something to keep him… — John Flanagan Copy Share Image
The observation that species are amazingly conservative and static entities throughout long periods of time has all the qualities of the emperor's… — Niles Eldredge Copy Share Image
Advising Mrs. Harris was the least I could do," David said smoothly. "After all, she was the one who brought me and… — Sabrina Jeffries Copy Share Image
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