Greed stains our culture, soaks our sensibilities and has replaced grace as a sign of our intimacy with the divine. — Jennifer Stone Copy Share Image
On every formal visit a child ought to be of the party, by way of provisions for discourse. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Social advance depends quite as much upon an increase in moral sensibility as it does upon a sense of duty. — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
My sensibility steers me toward writers who are out on their own. — Tahar Ben Jelloun Copy Share Image
In a Union of 15 now, you must take into account the sensibilities of everyone. — Jacques Santer Copy Share Image
The cure for tender sensibilities is to make more of our objects and less of our selves. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
I'm very into the japanese sensibility. Oversize coats and baggy trousers. — Milla Jovovich Copy Share Image
Elinor agreed with it all, for she did not think he deserved the compliment of rational opposition. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
The purpose of art is always, ultimately, to give pleasure - though our sensibilities may take time to catch up with the… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“She is not well, she has had a nervous complaint on her for several weeks.' 'I am sorry for that. At her… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
A successful director is someone who has the combination of skills that you can learn, but there's also an intuitive sensibility that… — Rick Heinrichs Copy Share Image
When I was young and I look at the things that I wrote - I don't think that was the word they… — John Ridley Copy Share Image
I saw how you could get away with such a free-spirited, naturalistic sensibility in a mainstream Hollywood movie, and you could apply… — David Gordon Green Copy Share Image
I'm definitely more at ease with comedy - that's where I started out - and so it's my first love, so to… — Omar Sy Copy Share Image
What you're trying to do when you write is to crowd the reader out of his own space and occupy it with… — Robert Stone Copy Share Image
I think our sensibility is not modernist anymore, that is, sensibility of people who are interested in art and literature. — Louis Menand Copy Share Image
Americans have a certain idea of what films are and the French have a much deeper sense of cinema. The cinémathèque is… — Jerry Schatzberg Copy Share Image
“He laughed, but his face was unreadable as he looked at her titles. “Ah, a collection from Sir Walter Scott. Very nice,… — Jess Michaels Copy Share Image
I'm coming from a place that's more experimental and indulgent already, so for the last 10 years, it's been more like, "How… — Andrew Bird Copy Share Image
I feel like we need to understand feminism more as a tool to mediate, counteract, to ultimately defeat patriarchy and restore balance… — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
In situations of sparse resources along with degraded self-images and depoliticized sensibilities, one avenue for poor people is in existential rebellion and… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
Atheism can benefit no class of people; neither the unfortunate, whom it bereaves of hope, nor the prosperous, whose joys it renders… — François-René de Chateaubriand Copy Share Image
I am simply a fairly typical product of a movable sensibility, living and working in a world that is itself increasingly small… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
It would be the death of all creativity for me if I had to sit there and be concerned with the sensibilities… — Robert Cormier Copy Share Image
If we were built, what were we built for? ... Why do we have this amazing collection of sinews, senses, and sensibilities?… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
I am religious by nature, I'm not a nihilist. I don't follow, I don't even know what the tenets of things like… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
Comedy is more difficult than drama. I think it's really difficult to make someone laugh because people have very different comedic sensibilities.… — Aimee Garcia Copy Share Image
“I gesture to his jacket. “Do you really think you’re qualified to give fashion advice?” He laughs, rubbing the back of his… — Emma Chase Copy Share Image
It is worthwhile adding that the power of the poem to teach not only sensibilities and the subtle movements of the spirit… — Guy Davenport Copy Share Image
perhaps I possess a certain Midwestern sensibility that I inherited from my mother and her parents, a sensibility that Warren Buffet seems… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Somebody came and directed a show at my high school. I approached it with sort of the sensibility - "Oh, I know… — Anika Noni Rose Copy Share Image
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict seems to have been overshadowed by the upheavals in the region. I have followed events there for almost 40… — Heinz Fischer Copy Share Image
Fiction stretches our sensibilities and our understanding, as mere information never can. — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
Of all unfortunate men one of the unhappiest is a middling author endowed with too lively a sensibility for criticism. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
People whose sensibility is destroyed by music in trains, airports, lifts, cannot concentrate on a Beethoven Quartet. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
a loss of sensibility follows a loss of innocence, at once a penalty and a compensation. — Dodie Smith Copy Share Image
My one concession to American sensibilities was to remove my nail polish. — Sebastian Horsley Copy Share Image
There has been a rather unpleasant sensibility apparent in Frank Miller's work for quite a long time. — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
The two pioneering forces of modern sensibility are Jewish moral seriousness and homosexual aestheticism and irony. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
