We seek our happiness outside ourselves, and in the opinion of men we know to be flatterers, insincere, unjust, full of envy,… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
The only difference between a caprice and a lifelong passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
To be a Christian and to pray are one and the same thing; it is a matter that cannot be left to… — Karl Barth Copy Share Image
Why quit our own to stand upon foreign ground? Why, by interweaving our destiny with that of any part of Europe, entangle… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Sleep is no servant of the will; it has caprices of its own; when courted most, it lingers still; when most pursued,… — John Bowring Copy Share Image
Her vice takes hold of her again, but she still refrains until some moment when, gnawed by some hideous caprice, she comes… — Jean Lorrain Copy Share Image
Popular glory is a perfect coquette; her lovers must toil, feel every inquietude, indulge every caprice, and perhaps at last be jilted… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
The mathematician is entirely free, within the limits of his imagination, to construct what worlds he pleases. What he is to imagine… — J. W. N. Sullivan Copy Share Image
They whose activity of imagination is often shifting the scenes of expectation, are frequently subject to such sallies of caprice as make… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
That a god like Jehovah should have created this world of misery and woe, out of pure caprice, and because he enjoyed… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“I could picture how Caprice was before we lost her. Dark hair, beautiful smile, intelligent hazel eyes, quick wit. Now gone. Just… — Cheyenne McCray Copy Share Image
We are the creatures of imagination, passion, and self-will, more than of reason or even of self-interest. Even in the common transactions… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The great merit of gold is precisely that it is scarce; that its quantity is limited by nature; that it is costly… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
“I saw exactly one picture of Marx and one of Lenin in my whole stay, but it's been a long time since… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Medicine is an incoherent assemblage of incoherent ideas, and is, perhaps, of all the physiological Sciences, that which best shows the caprice… — Marie Francois Xavier Bichat Copy Share Image
My core competency has really informed my painting. The roots of editing stem from classical paintings - classic painters intended to drive… — Billy Zane Copy Share Image
Here life itself, life at its best and healthiest, awaits the caprice of the bullet. Let us see the development of the… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
For the writer, the serial killer is, abstractly, an analogue of the imagination's caprices and amorality; the sense that, no matter the… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Danger is a good teacher, and makes apt scholars. So are disgrace, defeat, exposure to immediate scorn and laughter. There is no… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Let those who wish have their respectability- I wanted freedom, freedom to indulge in whatever caprice struck my fancy, freedom to search… — Richard Halliburton Copy Share Image
I had learned to have a perfect nausea for the theatre: the continual repetition of the same words and the same gestures,… — Isadora Duncan Copy Share Image
But the conceit of one's self and the conceit of one's hobby are hardly more prolific of eccentricity than the conceit of… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
One's own free and unfettered volition, one's own caprice, however wild, one's own fancy, inflamed sometimes to the point of madness -… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Civil liberty is only natural liberty, modified and secured by the sanctions of civil society. It is not a thing, in its… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
The true essence of a dictatorship is in fact not its regularity but its unpredictability and caprice; those who live under it… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Why quit our own to stand upon foreign ground? Why, by interweaving our destiny with that of any part of Europe, entangle… — George Washington Copy Share Image
It would be very singular that all nature, all the planets, should obey eternal laws, and that there should be a little… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Julian was not insensible of the advantages of freedom. From his studies he had imbibed the spirit of ancient sages and heroes;… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Always! That is a dreadful word. It makes me shudder when I hear it. Women are so fond of using it. They… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Passion, interest, or caprice, suggested daily motives for the dissolution of marriage; a word, a sign, a message, a letter, the mandate… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
