The water stretched out into the distance until it held…

Few things are more important at this time in history than for religious people to listen to the New Atheists as if these unbelievers…

— Michael Dowd

Monarchs not only fashion their age, but are fashioned by it, so that they can become a sort of personification of the age. If…

— Eva Figes

It would be curious to discover who it is to whom one writes in a diary. Possibly to some mysterious personification of one's own…

— Beatrice Webb

We had better dispense with the personification of evil, because it leads, all too easily, to the most dangerous kind of war: religious war.

— Konrad Lorenz

In Stalin each [Soviet bureaucrat] easily finds himself. But Stalin also finds in each one a small part of his own spirit. Stalin is…

— Leon Trotsky

“Your Mom's Car. Think about that. Try to wrap your brain around the supernatural and spiritual implications that the name bears down you. Your…

— Dan Chaon

“It is my conviction that, with the spread of true scientific culture, whatever may be the medium, historical, philological, philosophical, or physical, through which…

— Thomas Henry Huxley

To later Romans Ennius was the personification of the spirit of early Rome; by them he was called "The Father of Roman Poetry." We…

— Quintus Ennius

I saw sensuality as sacred, indeed the only sacredness, I saw woman and her beauty as divine since her calling is the most important…

— Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

“By December an elastic skin of ice reached out hundreds of miles into the sea, rolling with every wave.”

— Will Chancellor

It often occurs that pride and selfishness are muddled with strength and independence. They are neither equal nor similar; in fact, they are polar…

— Criss Jami

The apparent multiplication of gods is bewildering at the first glance, but you soon discover that they are the same GOD. There is always…

— George Bernard Shaw

Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977) is probably the most influential film of my generation. It's the personification of good and…

— J. J. Abrams

Dame Edna is that rarest sighting in our time of the absolute comic, an inspired personification of caprice whose comedy answered the primal call…

— John Lahr

“he is the personification of sensible silence.”

— Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell