The intellectual power is never at rest; it is never satisfied with any comprehended truth, but ever proceeds on and on towards… — Giordano Bruno Copy Share Image
A large portion of our citizens, who will not believe, even on the evidence of facts, that any public evils exist, or… — Fisher Ames Copy Share Image
In time of actual war, great discretionary powers are constantly given to the Executive Magistrate. Constant apprehension of War, has the same… — James Madison Copy Share Image
It seems to me that this is the true test for poetry: - that it should go beneath experience, as prose can… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
I don't want to be an alarmist, but I think that the Younger Generation is up to something… I base my apprehension… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Eight, sir; seven, sir; Six, sir; five, sir; Four, sir; Three, sir; Two, sir; one! Tenser, said the Tensor. Tenser, said the… — Alfred Bester Copy Share Image
Atheists put on false courage and alacrity in the midst of their darkness and apprehensions, like children who, when they fear to… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
In the midst of hopes and cares, of apprehensions and of disquietude, regard every day that dawns upon you as if it… — Horace Copy Share Image
Dirt's a funny thing,' the Boss said. 'Come to think of it, there ain't a thing but dirt on this green God's… — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
We recognize that same-sex marriage makes some people deeply uncomfortable. However, inertia and apprehension are not legitimate bases for denying same-sex couples… — Henry Franklin Floyd Copy Share Image
“Do you have any idea how mad you sound?’ ‘Indeed I do. I have in moments of doubt considered the question of… — Paul Hoffman Copy Share Image
I do believe that General Washington had not a firm confidence in the durability of our government. He was naturally distrustful of… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
We stand for organized terror - this should be frankly admitted. Terror is an absolute necessity during times of revolution. Our aim… — Felix Dzerzhinsky Copy Share Image
I can say that the happiest period of my life has been since I emerged from the shadows and superstitions of the… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
Every disastrous accident alarms us, and sets us on enquiries concerning the principles whence it arose: Apprehensions spring up with regard to… — David Hume Copy Share Image
This goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory, this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Faith is indeed intellectual; it involves an apprehension of certain things as facts; and vain is the modern effort to divorce faith… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It frequently happens that an element of the standard of living which set out with being primarily wasteful, ends with becoming, in… — Thorstein Veblen Copy Share Image
There never was a man of solid understanding, whose apprehensions are sober, and by a pensive inspection advised, but that he hath… — Walter Raleigh Copy Share Image
Where danger shews it self, apprehension cannot, without stupidity, be wanting; where danger is, sense of danger should be; and so much… — John Locke Copy Share Image
If this life is unhappy, it is a burden to us, which it is difficult to bear; if it is in every… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
The power of the people pervading the proposed system, together with the strong confederation of the states, will form an adequate security… — John Dickinson Copy Share Image
“It is not for nothing that an ominous feeling often attaches itself to a procession. In films and stories we see spectacles… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
Ambassador Mulford has made wide-ranging intervention in the internal affairs of India. To say the least, it is very unfortunate. It confirms… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
“The only time "early bloomer" has ever been applied to me is vis-a-vis my premature apprehension of the deep dread-of-existence thing. In… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
Some there are that torment themselves afresh with the memory of what is past; others, again, afflict themselves with the apprehension of… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Marijuana is a useful catalyst for specific optical and aural aesthetic perceptions. I apprehended the structure of certain pieces of jazz and… — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
You say yes to the sunlight and pure fantasies, so you have to say yes to the filth and the nausea. Everything… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Why should a man have any apprehension about the change and dissolution of all the elements? For it is according to nature,… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
His past was fairly blameless; few men could read the rolls of their life with less apprehension; yet he was humbled to… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Much of today's public anxiety about science is the apprehension that we may forever be overlooking the whole by an endless, obsessive… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
“Comfort came in and stood with an appearance of guilt and shame. Her head bent, her eyes soaked with tears, her hands… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Wit is a pleasure-giving thing, largely because it eludes reason; but in the apprehension of an absurdity through the working of the… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
The earliest sensation at the onset of illness, often preceding the recognition of identifiable symptoms, is apprehension. Something has gone wrong, and… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
In Waziristan people get really upset when there are no drone attacks. Their apprehension is that the US and Pakistani government might… — Pervez Hoodbhoy Copy Share Image
Most men experience getting older with regret, apprehension. But most women experience it even more painfully: with shame. Aging is a man's… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Humourists lead... an existence of jumpiness and apprehension. They sit on the edge of the chair of Literature. In the house of… — James Thurber Copy Share Image
The religious need of the human mind remains alive, never more so, but it demands a teaching which can be understood. Slowly… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
By recognizing a favorable opinion of yourself, and taking pleasure in it, you in a measure give yourself and your peace of… — Charles Horton Cooley Copy Share Image
