There are many portions of economical doctrine which…

One of the most important axioms is, that as the quantity of any commodity, for instance, plain food, which a man has to consume,…

— William Stanley Jevons

On their own, each [character] is a victim of no importance. But when you bring them together, they become a dangerous weapon. Jeanne is…

— Claude Chabrol

I don't think there's a problem. First of all, I don't think music turns people into social liabilities. Because you hear a lyric -…

— Frank Zappa

... naturalness is not always consonant with taste.

— Edith Wharton

The social system based on and consonant with the altruist morality-with the code of self-sacrifice- is socialism, in all or any of its variants:…

— Ayn Rand

I invented the colors of the vowels!--A black, E white, I red, O blue, U green--I made rules for the form and movement of…

— Arthur Rimbaud

God have mercy on the sinner Who must write with no dinner, No gravy and no grub, No pewter and no pub, No bellyand…

— John Crowe Ransom

The answer comes to me through studying the lives of the Rosa Parks and the Vaclav Havels and the Nelson Mandelas and the Dorothy…

— Parker J. Palmer

I called it Kinko’s because of my nickname — because I had this really kinky hair. If you think about it, the first thing…

— Paul Orfalea

A reader is entitled to believe what he or she believes is consonant with the facts of the book. It is not unusual that…

— Richard Ford

Vowels were something else. He didn't like them and they didn't like him. There were only five of them, but they seemed to be…

— Jerry Spinelli

Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

When we listen to improvisational jazz, or solo classical violinists, the way they phrase and inflect melodies feels vocal, like they’re talking to us.…

— Bobby McFerrin

Here learn the science of the Saints: All is to be found in the passion of Jesus. Make every effort to remain hidden in…

— Paul of the Cross

Nothing is more consonant with Nature than that she puts into operation in the smallest detail that which she intends as a whole.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe