I've frequently been asked over the years who Lily Savage was based on and I've always answered that it was no one… — Paul O'Grady Copy Share Image
Expulsion and genocide, though both are international offenses, must remain distinct; the former is an offense against fellow-nations, whereas the latter is… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Sigmund Freud was once asked to describe the characteristics of maturity, and he replied: lieben un arbeiten ("loving and working"). The mature… — David Elkind Copy Share Image
There is one characteristic of the present direction of public opinion, peculiarly calculated to make it intolerant of any marked demonstration of… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Not every painter has a gift for painting, in fact, many painters are disappointed when they meet with difficulties in art. Painting… — Titian Copy Share Image
Eating reveals the characteristic grossness of the human race and also the in-built failure of its satisfactions. We arrive eager, we stuff… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
Paranoia reduces anxiety and guilt by transferring to the other all the characteristics one does not want to recognize in oneself. It… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
In the spiritual domain, criticism is love turned sour... If criticism becomes a habit, it will destroy the moral energy of the… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
But, before we in America critique East Asia, we must also recognize that we are - unfortunately - taking on some of… — Henry Rosovsky Copy Share Image
The Anglo-Saxon has established himself in climates totally diverse - Canada, South Africa, and India - and, through several generations, has preserved… — Josiah Strong Copy Share Image
It is not the willingness to kill on the part of our soldiers which most concerns me. That is an inherent part… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
You have to look for a unique quality in that person and it's not just always physical. I don't think models are… — Michael Flutie Copy Share Image
In England if something goes wrong--say, if one finds a skunk in the garden--he writes to the family solicitor, who proceeds to… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Eliminate the clutter. That's the key. Eliminate the clutter and understand the important things. First and foremost, the most important thing is… — Jim McElwain Copy Share Image
Strength is an excellent example of a physical characteristic that drives improvement in other athletic parameters. More strength means more power, more… — Mark Rippetoe Copy Share Image
Late in the afternoon we passed a man on the shore fishing with a long birch pole… The characteristics and pursuits of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
What initially attracted me to The Seventh Seal was that it had values and characteristics which I was familiar with in other… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
Ernest Bevin had many of the strongest characteristics of the English race. His manliness, his common sense, his rough simplicity, sturdiness and… — Ernest Bevin Copy Share Image
Eight Mindful Steps to Happiness is the perfect companion to Mindfulness in Plain English. Written with the thoroughness and the masterful simplicity… — Larry Rosenberg Copy Share Image
...to characterize the import of pure geometry, we might use the standard form of a movie-disclaimer: No portrayal of the characteristics of… — Carl Gustav Hempel Copy Share Image
The morphological characteristics of plant and animal species form the chief subject of the descriptive natural sciences and are the criteria for… — Karl Landsteiner Copy Share Image
Every sensation shares the same characteristic: it arises and passes away, arises and passes away. It is this arising and passing that… — S. N. Goenka Copy Share Image
One can never really give a proof of the reality of anything; reality is not something open to proof, it is something… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
I eagerly await new concepts and processes. I believe that the electronic image will be the next major advance. Such systems will… — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
The university is a vast public utility which turns out future workers in today's vineyard, the military-industrial complex. They've got to be… — Mario Savio Copy Share Image
Now death is uncool, old-fashioned. To my mind the defining characteristic of our era is spin, everything tailored to vanishing point by… — Tana French Copy Share Image
Some mechanism in my sub-consciousness took the dominant characteristics of various prize-fighters, gunmen, bootleggers, oil field bullies, gamblers, and honest workmen I… — Robert E. Howard Copy Share Image
Starting out from the fact that the frustrated predominate among the early adherents of all mass movements and that they usually join… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
The man, or the boy, in his development is psychologically deterred from incorporating serving characteristics by an easily observable fact: there are… — Jean Baker Miller Copy Share Image
I do not know if it has ever been noted before that one of the main characteristics of life is discreteness. Unless… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
The United States in many ways resembles a Third World country - far more elevated, but it has many of those structural… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
However, if we consider that all the characteristics which have been cited are only differences in degree of structure, may we not… — Jean-Baptiste Lamarck Copy Share Image
We declare that only man exists. This is not to say that material, inorganic nature and nonhuman beings-animals and plants-are in any… — Medard Boss Copy Share Image
Start by identifying the qualities or characteristics that make you distinctive from your competitors - or your colleagues. What have you done… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
It is the characteristic of great poems that they will yield of their sense in due proportion to the hasty and the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“In every aspect of Italian life, one of the key characteristics to get to grips with is that this is a nation… — Tim Parks Copy Share Image
We achieve active mastery over illness and death by delegating all responsibility for their management to physicians, and by exiling the sick… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of geniuses. The characteristic of the one is roaring, but the lightning is meagre and rarely strikes; the… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Anyone too undisciplined, too self-righteous or too self-centered to live in the world as it is has a tendency to idealize a… — David James Duncan Copy Share Image
But it is just this characteristic of simplicity in the laws of nature hitherto discovered which it would be fallacious to generalize,… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
