The world has enough women who are tough; we need women who are tender. There are enough women who are coarse; we… — Margaret D. Nadauld Copy Share Image
I call worldly or earthly those whose minds and hearts are fixed on a tiny portion of this world they live in,… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
The dog, on the other hand, has few or no ideas because his brain acts in coarse fashion and because there are… — Edward Thorndike Copy Share Image
Let me take up your metaphor. Friendship is a vase, which, when it is flawed by heat or violence or accident, may… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
I used to come from the village with all that dirt and coarse ugliness like a pain within me, and the simpering… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
So I turn once more to those who sneer at this my city, and I give them back the sneer and say… — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
The commonest man, who has his ounce of sense and feeling, is conscious of the difference between a lovely, delicate woman and… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The fact that slang is apt and forceful makes its use irresistibly tempting. Coarse or profane slang is beside the mark, but… — Emily Post Copy Share Image
He wished she knew his impressions, but he would as soon as thought of carrying an odour in a net as of… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
I shall start at the beginning. Though of coarse, the beginning is never where you think it is. — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
To certain temperaments, especially when previously agitated by any deep feeling, there is perhaps nothing more exasperating, andwhich sooner explodes all self-command,… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
The one prudence in life is concentration; the one evil is dissipation: and it makes no difference whether our dissipations are coarse… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
You can imagine a soul as being a detailed, elaborate pattern that exists very clearly in one brain. When a person dies,… — Douglas Hofstadter Copy Share Image
The everyday choices I make regarding money will influence the very coarse of eternity. — Randy Alcorn Copy Share Image
Do you think it is a vain hope that one day man will find joy in noble deeds of light and mercy,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Why it was that upon this beautiful feminine tissue, sensitive as gossamer, and practically blank as snow as yet, there should have… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
Prosperity, pleasure and success, may be rough of grain and common in fibre, but sorrow is the most sensitive of all created… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
After [Bill Shawn] was fired, I was going to the YMHA [Young Men's Hebrew Association] on the Upper East Side to do… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
For the devil is better pleased with coarse blockheads and with folks who are useful to nobody; because where such characters abound,… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
We are the bullies of the earth: strong, foul, coarse, greedy, careless, indifferent to others, laying waste as we proceed, leaving wounds,… — Ian McHarg Copy Share Image
I fell asleep to the scent of my wolf. Pine needles, cold rain, earthy perfume, coarse bristles on my face. — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
The culture is just so coarse that you have to take it to that level and people will be like, 'Whoa!' And… — Matt Stone Copy Share Image
Why? You want to know why? Step into a tanning booth and fry yourself for two or three days. After your skin… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
We are in the process of creating what deserves to be called the idiot culture. Not an idiot sub-culture, which every society… — Carl Bernstein Copy Share Image