The enormous influence of novelty--the way in which it quickens observations, sharpens sensations, and exalts sentiment--is not half enough taken note of… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
A new race-neutral language was developed for appealing to old racist sentiments, a language accompanied by a political movement that succeeded in… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
A majority held in restraint by constitutional checks and limitations, and always changing easily with deliberate changes of popular opinions and sentiments,… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Science corrects the old creeds, sweeps away, with every new perception, our infantile catechisms, and necessitates a faith commensurate with the grander… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In civilized life, where the happiness, and indeed almost the existence, of man depends so much upon the opinion of his fellow-men,… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
I am not a complete idiot, but whether from weakness or laziness have no talent for thinking. I know only how to… — Sviatoslav Richter Copy Share Image
A tree, young or old, if admired, remains a definite vision, and when after long absence it is visited again, the meeting… — Charles Eley Copy Share Image
Before God, I believe the hour has come. My judgment approves this measure, and my whole heart is in it. All that… — John Adams Copy Share Image
The harmony of the nation is promoted and the whole Union is knit together by the sentiments of mutual respect, the habits… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
I think that's such a beautiful sentiment. Love should only last as long as a very expensive and impractical bikini that looks… — Emma Forrest Copy Share Image
The friendship of fine-hearted, generous boys, nurtured amid the romance-engendering comforts and elegancies of life, sometimes transcends the bounds of mere boyishness,… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
As not every instance of similitude can be considered as a proof of imitation, so not every imitation ought to be stigmatised… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
He that outlives a wife whom he has long loved, sees himself disjoined from the only mind that has the same hopes,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The Christian idea of marriage is based on Christ's words that a man and wife are to be regarded as a single… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Some of the comments that have been uttered about Islam do not reflect the sentiments of my government or the sentiments of… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
As an economic historian, I appreciate what manufacturing has contributed to the United States. It was the engine of growth that allowed… — Christina Romer Copy Share Image
“El que ha de fer un autor no és tendir a comunicar uns sentiments, sinó sentir que el posseeixen, sentir el desig… — Ludmilla Petrushevskaya Copy Share Image
A mother's love is like a circle. It has no beginning and no ending. It keeps going around and around ever expanding,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Why does a man cry? he wondered. Not like a woman; not for that. Not for sentiment. A man cries over the… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
No offence to Hugh MacLennan, but you don't even have to know or understand any deep philosophy that's being espoused, you can… — Sarah Harmer Copy Share Image
How easy it is for generous sentiments, high courtesy, and chivalrous courage to lose their influence beneath the chilling blight of selfishness,… — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image
The consequences of these institutions (The towns or districts, the congregations, the schools,and the militia.) have been, that the inhabitants, having acquired… — John Adams Copy Share Image
I regard it as a tragedy that people of a differing sexual orientation find themselves proscribed in a world that has so… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
. . . it is difficult for Europeans to appreciate the sentiment. Other nations kill animals by wholesale and kill one another;… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The one distinct feature of our Association has been the right of the individual opinion for every member. We have been beset… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
The Revolutionist is a doomed man. He has no private interests, no affairs, sentiments, ties, property nor even a name of his… — Sergey Nechayev Copy Share Image
We do not know the true value of our moments until they have undergone the test of memory. Like the images the… — Georges Duhamel Copy Share Image
Mounting toward the upland again, I pause reverently, as the hush and stillness of twilight come upon the woods. It is the… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
What are the precise characteristics of an epigram it is not easy to define. It differs from a joke, in the fact… — William Matthews Copy Share Image
There is a certain class of people who prefer to say that their fathers came down in the world through their own… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“or is that too straightforward a statement, have I been insufficiently artful in encoding my sentiments...in camouflaging them for esthetic effect. well,… — Evan Dara Copy Share Image
If you love God, you can't hate anything or anyone. If the love one offers is met with hate, it doesn't die,… — Radhanath Swami Copy Share Image
Let us labor for the security of free thought, free speech, pure morals, unfettered religious sentiments, and equal rights and privileges for… — Ulysses S. Grant Copy Share Image
The member of a culture ... purposely avoids the relationship of intimacy; he wants the object somehow depicted and fictionalized. ... He… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
The idea of equality is a by-product of the sentiment of envy. Since it must always prove beyond human ower to raise… — Rafael Sabatini Copy Share Image
In actions of enthusiasm, this drawback appears: but in those lower activities, which have no higher aim than to make us more… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Moral theory develops from the divine command theory of medieval Christian philosophy, mixed up with a bit of ancient pagan virtue theory,… — Catherine Wilson Copy Share Image
Reserved people often really need the frank discussion of their sentiments and griefs more than the expansive. The sternest-seeming stoic is human… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
Libertarians have always battled the age-old scourge of war. They understood that war brought death and destruction on a grand scale, disrupted… — David Boaz Copy Share Image
Sometimes, if we are faced with obstacles, be they tangible or not, such as jealousy, worldly sentiment, greed, hatred or obsession, etc.,… — Ching Hai Copy Share Image
