... clothes sometimes gave one more of a lift than any…

“The female guard in R&D explained that they had no women's street clothes, so she gave me the smallest pair of men's jeans they…

— Piper Kerman

The arrival of Ade Akinbiyi gave everyone a lift. He's a natural born goalscorer.

— Trevor Francis

They are more to me than life, these voices, they are more than motherliness and more than fear; they are the strongest, most comforting…

— Erich Maria Remarque

Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are of the nature rather of universals, whereas those…

— Aristotle

If we study Japanese art, we see a man who is undoubtedly wise, philosophic and intelligent, who spends his time doing what? He studies…

— Vincent Van Gogh

To despise riches, may, indeed, be philosophic, but to dispense them worthily, must surely be more beneficial to mankind.

— Fanny Burney

We may say that hysteria is a caricature of an artistic creation, a compulsion neurosis a caricature of a religion, and a paranoiac delusion…

— Sigmund Freud

After a study of some forty years and more of the great religions of the world, I find none so perfect, none so scientific,…

— Annie Besant

We must make the building of a free society once more an intellectual adventure, a deed of courage… Unless we can make the philosophic…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

We believe that the materials and the stories taken from the raw can be finer (more real in the philosophic sense) than the acted…

— John Grierson

“The philosophic outlook rises above all sectarian controversy. It finds its own position not only by appreciating and synthesizing what is solidly based in…

— Paul Brunton

The philosophic spirit of inquiry may be traced to brute curiosity, and that to the habit of examining all things in search of food.…

— William Winwood Reade

Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains.

— Alfred North Whitehead

The Germans are the most philosophic people in the world, and the greatest smokers: now I trace their philosophy to their smoking. Smoking has…

— George Henry Borrow

It takes an unusually philosophic mind to accept that all one’s suffering might be to no end, really, in the larger scheme of things.

— Anonymous