To regard the fundamental as the essence, to regard things as coarse, to regard accumulation as deficiency, and to dwell quietly alone… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
Jesus makes large claims for his heavenly father but never mentions that his mother is or was a virgin, and is repeatedly… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
There is no so wretched and coarse a soul wherein some particular faculty is not seen to shine. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
When the Prince of Wales [later King George IV] and the Duke of York went to visit their brother Prince William [later… — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
I am for an art that takes its form from the lines of life itself, that twists and extends and accumulates and… — Claes Oldenburg Copy Share Image
Words too familiar, or too remote, defeat the purpose of a poet. From those sounds which we hear on small or on… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
But fornication and all uncleanness or covetousness, let it not even be named among you, as is fitting for saints; neither filthiness,… — Paul the Apostle Copy Share Image
There are dull and bright, sacred and profane, coarse and fine egotists. It is a disease that, like influenza, falls on all… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
My plan of instruction is extremely simple and limited. They learn, on week-days, such coarse works as may fit them for servants.… — Hannah More Copy Share Image
We note the increasing coarseness of language and understand how Lot must have felt when he was, according to Peter, "vexed with… — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
What signifies, says some one, giving halfpence to beggars? they only lay it out in gin or tobacco. "And why should they… — Hester Lynch Piozzi Copy Share Image
When you write, it’s like braiding your hair. Taking a handful of coarse unruly strands and attempting to bring them unity. Your… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
Refined and delicate natures understand the cat. Women, poets, and artists hold it in great esteem, for they recognize the exquisite delicacy… — Champfleury Copy Share Image
Average human nature is very coarse, and its ideals must necessarily be average. The world never loved perfect poise. What the world… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
For one that comes with a pencil to sketch or sing, a thousand come with an axe or rifle. What a coarse… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It is well known to all experienced minds that our firmest convictions are often dependent on subtle impressions for which words are… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
People of delicate health, selfish dispositions, and coarse minds, can always bear the sufferings of others placidly. — Isabel Burton Copy Share Image
It is not only the prisoners who grow coarse and hardened from corporal punishment, but those as well who perpetrate the act… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
I want to make a bet with you.” Her interest perked up. “You do? About what?” Already knowing it wouldn’t go over… — Lori Foster Copy Share Image
I like the copious, shapeless, warm, not so very clever, but extremely easy and rather coarse aspect of things; the talk of… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Venerable to me is the hard hand,--crooked, coarse,--wherein, notwithstanding, lies a cunning virtue, indispensably royal as of the sceptre of the planet. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
One man said, "I looked at my brother through the microscope of criticism, and I said, "How coarse my brother is." Then… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
I lose my respect for the man who can make the mystery of sex the subject of a coarse jest, yet when… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I am distinctly opposed to visibly arrogant and arbitrary extremes of government--but this is simply because I wish the safety of an… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
Grace: I picked up my sweater from the floor and crawled back into bed. Shoving my pillow aside, I balled up the… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
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