A fact is like a sack which won't stand up if it's empty. In order that it may stand up, one has… — Luigi Pirandello Copy Share Image
I agree with the sentiment that it's probably more dangerous to believe some things that aren't so than to not believe something… — Daniel Levitin Copy Share Image
Adam Smith and Malthus and Ricardo ! There is something about these three figures to evoke more than ordinary sentiments from us… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
Throughout my career I have been pretty successful, I've played for some pretty big teams, represented my country quite a few times,… — David Beckham Copy Share Image
The religion of the Bible is the best in the world. I see the infinite value of religion. Let it be always… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence, and ecclesiastical establishments tend to great ignorance and corruption; all of which facilitate the… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Just for the record, I personally do agree with some of the sentiments of Rabbi Meir Kahane. I think he was right… — Aaron Klein Copy Share Image
Nothing affects the heart like that which is purely from itself, and of its own nature; such as the beauty of sentiments,… — Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury Copy Share Image
The diverse natures of men, combined with the necessity to satisfy in some manner the sentiment which desires them to be equal,… — Vilfredo Pareto Copy Share Image
To write is, indeed, no unpleasing employment, when one sentiment readily produces another, and both ideas and expressions present themselves at the… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“Soft, hence the blackheart under my sweet muse popular sentiments and blandishments mark your rather tranquil passions so living were you, so… — Clay Scott Brown Copy Share Image
Rick Black writes with the honed elegance of a poet so in command of lyric sentiment and the efficient evocative use of… — Kwame Dawes Copy Share Image
I have just been conversing with one man, to whom no weight of adverse experience will make it for a moment appear… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A constitution founded on these principles introduces knowledge among the people, and inspires them with a conscious dignity becoming freemen; a general… — John Adams Copy Share Image
In the Orient the ultimate divine mystery is sought beyond all human categories of thought and feeling, beyond names and forms, and… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Adam Smith's image of competition in the marketplace was intended as an adjunct to his detailed description of human motivation in The… — Ted Malloch Copy Share Image
I've read and heard that some of the most inspiring vocal interpreters adhere habitually to one rule: Always think the lyrics as… — Brandi Carlile Copy Share Image
If there had been a strong democratic sentiment in Germany, Hitler would never have come to power . [Germans] deserved what they… — A. J. P. Taylor Copy Share Image
Outpouring of affection for God, of resting in his presence, of good feelings towards everyone and sentiments and prayers like theseare suspect… — St. Vincent Copy Share Image
The totality of beliefs and sentiments common to the average members of a society forms a determinate system with a life of… — Emile Durkheim Copy Share Image
On the other hand, the cultivation of the religious sentiment represses licentiousnessinspires respect for law and order, and gives strength to the… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
Romance only dies with life. No pair of pincers will ever pull it out of us. But there is a spurious sentiment… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
There is poetry and there is beauty in real sympathy; but there is more - there is action. The noblest and most… — Octavius Winslow Copy Share Image
My mother never liked Mother's Day. She thought it was a fake holiday dreamed up by Hallmark to commodify deep sentiments that… — Meghan O'Rourke Copy Share Image
I have a heart to be stabbed in or shot in, I have no doubt, and, of course, if it ceased to… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I consider nothing low but ignorance, vice, and meanness, characteristics generally found where the animal propensities predominate over the higher sentiments. — William John Wills Copy Share Image
The majority of the senior class of Vassar does not desire my company and I must confess, having read specimens of their… — William F. Buckley, Jr Copy Share Image
History is the necessary food of good and noble sentiments. It ought to give us at once humility and confidence in the… — Vincent Massey Copy Share Image
I do not set myself up as an advocate of the woman's right doctrine, but would rather appear in the character of… — Belle Boyd Copy Share Image
it is a testament to the strength and purity of the democratic sentiment in the country, that the republic has not been… — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
No one is more romantic than a cynic. I do think that you don't become cynical or 'unsentimental' unless there's a core… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
One part of love is innocence One part of love is guilt One part the milk that in a sense Is soured… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
We will paste upon the curled pages words Like charming and romantic and sentimental Forgetting that charming is witchcraft Romantic is love… — Emilie Autumn Copy Share Image
It is one of the worst things of sentiment that the voice grows to be more important than the words, and the… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
As with the Princess Di crash, which sent the media on the most insane feeding frenzy. From the moment of the crash,… — Barbara Kruger Copy Share Image
I never liked the Hierarchy of the Church-an equality in the teacher of Religion, and a dependence on the people, are republican… — Rufus King Copy Share Image
In matters of sentiment, the public has very crude ideas; and the most shocking fault of women is that they make the… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
At the drop of a hat, people have begun to take offence. You can't write, paint, make films without worrying about some… — Aparna Sen Copy Share Image
Anti-smoking sentiment has replaced middle-class morality entirely. The smoker has taken the place of the homosexual. Today you hear people say things… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
To the best of my knowledge, every acute inpatient ward offers some inpatient group therapy experience. Indeed, the evidence supporting the efficacy… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image