You have to approach something with indifference, as if you had no aesthetic emotion. The choice of readymades is always based on… — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
The appointing power vested in the president imposes delicate and onerous duties. So far as it is possible to be informed, I… — Zachary Taylor Copy Share Image
A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships. — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
Absolute hospitality would in no way amount to the absence of violence. To the contrary, it would enthrone violence precisely under the… — Miroslav Volf Copy Share Image
The poetic impulse is distinct from ideas about things or feelings about things, though it may use these. It's more like a… — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
Greek culture is pleasant to contemplate because of its great simplicity and naturalness, and because of the absence of gadgets, each of… — George Sarton Copy Share Image
I mean she's Cleopatra... shouldn't she and Antony have known better? They were so different..." "Variety is the spice of life" "And… — Ally Carter Copy Share Image
Let us be satisfied simply with what sustains our present life, not with what pampers it. Let us pray to God for… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
I know that the right kind of leader for the Labour Party is a desiccated calculating machine who must not in any… — Aneurin Bevan Copy Share Image
I have often wondered how anyone who does not read, by which I mean daily, having some book going all the time,… — William Brinkley Copy Share Image
The reduction of the universe to the compass of a single being, and the extension of a single being until it reaches… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Atheism is the absence of a belief in a god, nothing more. If the theist wishes to draw monumental implications from this… — George H. Smith Copy Share Image
I believe that there is no test of greatness in periods, nations or men more sure than the development, among them or… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Proverbs often contradict one another, as any reader soon discovers. The sagacity that advises us to look before we leap promptly warns… — Leo Rosten Copy Share Image
It is the absence of facts that frightens people: the gap you open, into which they pour their fears, fantasies, desires. — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
When you are alone you are not alone, you are simply lonely and there is a tremendous difference between loneliness and aloneness.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Fearlessness is not the absence of fear, fearlessness is the total presence of fear with the courage to face it. — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Over the last couple of decades, the personalization of the office changed dramatically... there's an informality people often take for the absence… — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
Without dignity, identity is erased. In its absence, men are defined not by themselves, but by their captors and the circumstances in… — Laura Hillenbrand Copy Share Image
Freedom of the mind requires not only, or not even especially the absence of legal constraints but the presence of alternative thoughts. — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
I've sworn off agnosticism, which I now call cowardly atheism. I've come to the position that in the complete absence of any… — James Cameron Copy Share Image
Silence was not the absence of sound but was itself a sound that could be loud or soft, soothing or disturbing, complex… — Julius Lester Copy Share Image
In order to thoroughly enjoy anything, one must feel the absence of it at times. — Laura Ingalls Wilder Copy Share Image
In late 2009, I returned to Baghdad after a lengthy absence. I was living alone, in the Hamra Hotel, the twice bombed-out… — Michael Hastings Copy Share Image
