It is notorious that we speak no more than half-truths in our ordinary conversation, and even a soliloquy is likely to be… — Eric Linklater Copy Share Image
Today we love what tomorrow we hate, today we seek what tomorrow we shun, today we desire what tomorrow we fear, nay,… — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
Laughter may or may not activate the endorphins or enhance respiration, as some medical researchers contend. What seems clear, however, is that… — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
The most refined abstractions of logic conduct to a view of life, which, though startling to the apprehension, is, in fact, that… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Growth is a greater mystery than death. All of us can understand failure, we all contain failure and death within us, but… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
Certainly Adam in Paradise had not more sweet and curious apprehensions of the world, than I when I was a child. — Thomas Traherne 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
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
“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
The sense of death is most in apprehension, And the poor beetle, that we tread upon, In corporal sufferance finds a pang… — William Shakespeare 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
I should say tact was worth much more than wealth as a road to leadership.... I mean that subtle apprehension which teaches… — M. E. W. Sherwood Copy Share Image
Religion is the vision of something which stands beyond, behind, and within, the passing flux of immediate things; something which is real,… — Alfred North Whitehead 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
To wisdom belongs the intellectual apprehension of eternal things; to knowledge, the rational knowledge of temporal things. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
It is claimed that the United States gets the cleanest and purest tea in the market, and certainly it is too good… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
I think the fundamental apprehension is that the city's an organism of some form, rather than being governed from above. — Will Self Copy Share Image
Youth has a quickness of apprehension, which it is very apt to mistake for an acuteness of penetration. — Hannah More Copy Share Image
To grow a beautiful garden of affection, It needs timely de-weeding of apprehension and a sturdy fence against obsession! — Supritha S 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
We are in a democracy, and I think for all issues, whatever matters that the opposition may have apprehension on, there is… — Pallam Raju Copy Share Image
My objective always is to stay as close as possible and shoot the pictures as if through the eyes of the infantryman,… — David Douglas Duncan Copy Share Image
Get the heat and emotion out worry, and put cold, ruthless scrutiny onto the problem, and worry loses its power. When we… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
Conservatives are inclined to use the powers of government to prevent change or to limit its rate to whatever appeals to the… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
Faith ... is a conscious apprehension of something inevident, something which unlike this desk and this chair is not seen to be… — Bernard Lonergan Copy Share Image
