If we range through the whole territory of nature, and endeavour to extract from each department the rich stores of knowledge and… — Joseph Paxton Copy Share Image
Human beings grew up in forests; we have a natural affinity for them. How lovely a tree is, straining toward the sky. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Beyond doubt, there was a certain splendor in pain, which bore a deep affinity to the splendor that lies hidden within strength. — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
If there is a God, He is infinitely incomprehensible, since, having, neither parts nor limits, He has no affinity to us. We… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Why do we think love is a magician? Because the whole power of magic consists in love. The work of magic is… — Marsilio Ficino Copy Share Image
At a finite distance in the future, a critical state of encounter will occur, an ultimate co-reflective Center. A focused conspiration will… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
Perhaps because my background is theatrical, I have a great affinity with the classics. Hamlet has always been a character of great… — Adhir Kalyan Copy Share Image
Friendship takes place between those who have an affinity for one another, and is a perfectly natural and inevitable result. No professions… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I have taught students from the New York City area so long I have a special affinity and rapport with them. It… — Robert Morgan Copy Share Image
If you deny any affinity with another person or kind of person, if you declare it to be wholly different from yourself… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Something very significant appears to be happening in America. There is a dramatic shift in voter affinity toward the GOP, and it… — Bob Beauprez Copy Share Image
A writer doesn't write about just anything. He writes about things he has an affinity for. — Antonio Munoz Molina Copy Share Image
Most of the ancestors that I can trace were born here in the United States of America. And then it goes back… — Herman Cain Copy Share Image
Friendships are the family we make - not the one we inherit. I've always been someone to whom friendship, elective affinities, is… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I've always had an affinity for lawyers. My dad is a lawyer. He's retired now. My brother is a lawyer. It's always… — Scott Bakula Copy Share Image
Reagents are regarded as acting by virtue of a constitutional affinity either for electrons or for nuclei... the terms electrophilic (electron-seeking) and… — Christopher Kelk Ingold Copy Share Image
If anything, Brown is more oriented towards the other side of the Atlantic than Blair. Most of his reforming ideas and intellectual… — Martin Jacques Copy Share Image
I am certainly open to the idea that this might be used to explain other philosophical categories besides knowledge. I have some… — Hilary Kornblith Copy Share Image
Jews show so near an affinity to you... Where is your Christianity if you do not believe in their Judaism? — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
When the copulative kai [`and'] connects two nouns of the same case, [viz. nouns (either substantive or adjective, or participles), of personal… — Granville Sharp Copy Share Image
Art is a process of concentration. It is both the distilled essence and the commentary upon otherwise mundane activities and reflections. Musical… — Russell Sherman Copy Share Image
Here man is no longer the center of the world, only a witness, but a witness who is also a partner in… — Dag Hammarskjold Copy Share Image
I'm English and I am British. I don't know if I feel part of a music scene. Musically, I have as many… — David Gilmour Copy Share Image
Millions of years ago, in my previous incarnations, I must have been related to swans... because I can still feel that affinity. — Jean Sibelius Copy Share Image