I was summoned by my Country, whose voice I can never hear but with veneration and love. — George Washington Copy Share Image
No man tells his opinion so freely as when he imagines it received with implicit veneration. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Sing me not a song; let me hear your recital of veneration and respect; this I will listen to over and over… — Ava Gardner Copy Share Image
But where did this veneration of childbirth come from? I missed that meeting. Childbirth is wonderful, childbirth is a miracle. Wrong. It's… — Bill Hicks Copy Share Image
The inscrutable wisdom through which we exist is not less worthy of veneration in respect to what it denies us than in… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
I have always a sacred veneration for anyone I observe to be a little out of repair in his person, as supposing… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Stop being astounded by the realization that sex is the object of such misunderstanding and of such automatic clumsiness that it implies… — Philippe Sollers Copy Share Image
I fear that, with our current veneration for the natural and the real, we have arrived at the opposite pole to all… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I have observed that vulgar readers almost always lose their veneration for the writings of the genius with whom they have had… — Egerton Brydges Copy Share Image
That which is impenetrable to us really exists. Behind the secrets of nature remains something subtle, intangible, and inexplicable. Veneration for this… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
With what astonishment and veneration may we look into our own souls, where there are such hidden stores of virtue and knowledge,… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Fair-goes are not only for oneself, but for underdogs. Even in international sporting matches Australians have been known to switch from their… — Donald Horne Copy Share Image
The pre-scientific age, whatever its deficiencies, had at least offered its members the peace of mind that follows from knowing all man-made… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
But, if the knowledge of the occult powers of nature opens the spiritual sight of man, enlarges his intellectual faculties, and leads… — H. P. Blavatsky Copy Share Image
What smells strongly of crap to one generation - Victorian penny dreadfuls, the music of the Archies, the Lone Ranger radio show,… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
It may be considered as an objection inherent in the principle, that as every appeal to the people would carry an implication… — James Madison Copy Share Image
In a democracy - even if it is a so-called democracy like our white-?litist one - the greatest veneration one can show… — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
Mirthfulness is in the mind, and you cannot get it out. It is the blessed spirit that God has set in the… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Religion is fundamentally opposed to everything I hold in veneration - courage, clear thinking, honesty, fairness, and, above all, love of the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In this world there is one godlike thing, the essence of all that was or ever will be of godlike in this… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
The property qualifications for federal office that the framers of the Constitution expressly chose to exclude for demonstrating an unseemly "veneration of… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others. Then we might… — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
Israelites, Christians and Muslims profess immortality, but the veneration they render this world proves they believe only in it, since they destine… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
While the womanly god demands our veneration, the godlike woman kindles our love; but while we allow ourselves to melt in the… — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
“When is one considered to have learnt to become a husband? It is when the wife continuously experiences veneration (respect) for him.” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Every tradition grows continually more venerable, and the more remote its origins, the more this is lost sight of. The veneration paid… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Who confers reputation? who gives respect and veneration to persons, to books, to great men? Who but Opinion? How utterly insufficient are… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
We do not attach any intrinsic value to the Cross; this would be sinful and idolatrous. Our veneration is referred to Him… — James Gibbons Copy Share Image
Religion in a magistrate strengthens his authority, because it procures veneration, and gains a reputation to it. In all the affairs of… — John Tillotson Copy Share Image
The accidental prescriptions of authority, when time has procured them veneration, are often confounded with the laws of nature, and those rules… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
(Nationalism is) a set of beliefs taught to each generation in which the Motherland or the Fatherland is an object of veneration… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
We must sometimes get away from the Authorized Version, if for no other reason, simply because it is so beautiful and so… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
What but education has advanced us beyond the condition of our indigenous neighbors? And what chains them to their present state of… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
It seems like only yesterday that savers were dorks. They kept piggy banks. They drove last year's cars. They fished in their… — Jane Bryant Quinn Copy Share Image
Keep the extent of your abilities unknown.The wise man does not allow his knowledge and abilities to be sounded to the bottom,… — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
We humans are naturally disposed to worship gods and heroes, to build our pantheons and valhallas. I would rather see that impulse… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
In order to be able thus to misjudge, and thus to grant left-handed veneration to our classics, people must have ceased to… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The East is unfamiliar with those confessions, memoirs, and autobiographies so beloved in the West. There is a clear difference in tonality.… — Paul Evdokimov Copy Share Image
An art of expression should begin with childhood, and the lucid use of one's mother tongue should be typical of that art.… — Louis Sullivan Copy Share Image
When you are before the altar where Christ reposes, you ought no longer to think that you are amongst men; but believe… — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
