The approach to the offices of Girdlestone and Co. was not a very dignified one, nor would the uninitiated who traversed it… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
There are brains so large that they unconsciously swamp all individualities ties which come in contact or too near, and brains so… — Anna Brownell Jameson Copy Share Image
Nothing, indeed, is more dangerous to the young artist than any conception of ideal beauty: he is constantly led by it either… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
It is essential that the revelation we receive, the conception of an image which embraces a certain thing, which has no sense… — Giorgio de Chirico Copy Share Image
The primary conception of tennis is to get the ball over the net and at the same time to keep it within… — Elliott Chaze Copy Share Image
A system of philosophy, or metaphysics, is a union of a world view and a life view in one harmonious, complete, integral… — Joseph Alexander Leighton Copy Share Image
There is a conception about me that I am a playback singer and I sing for albums or for films only, but… — Sonu Nigam Copy Share Image
But you can't show some far off idyllic conception of behavior if you want the kids to come and see the picture.… — James Dean Copy Share Image
“The ingenerating of a principle of grace in the soul seems in Scripture to be compared to the conceiving of Christ in… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
We have the Annunciation, the Conception, the Birth and the Adoration, as described in the first and second chapters of Luke's gospel;… — Samuel Sharpe Copy Share Image
Implicit in the activist conception of government is the assumption that you can take the good things in a complex system for… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Ideas are easy to come by, they spring effortlessly out of the vacuity of the mind and cost nothing. When they are… — Robert Beer Copy Share Image
Adam Smith is an egalitarian, he believed in equality of outcome, not opportunity. He is an enlightenment figure, pre-capitalist. He says, suppose… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The coarsening of our culture towards violent death has more consequences than war. Tragically, this same culture has led to the death… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
The conception of gods originated in fear and curiosity. Primitive man, unable to understand the phenomena of nature, and harassed by them,… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
The Theatre of Cruelty has been created in order to restore to the theatre a passionate and convulsive conception of life, and… — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
Actually the family is still the core social unit. Culturally, traditional masculinity was a removed father. That was a false conception of… — Stephen Marche Copy Share Image
We can all perceive the difference between ourselves and our inferiors, but when it comes to a question of the difference between… — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image
The saxophone is actually a translation of the human voice, in my conception. All you can do is play melody. No matter… — Stan Getz Copy Share Image
It's a spiritual malnutrition tied to a moral constipation, where people have a sense of what's right and what's good. It's just… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
The woman who first gives life, light, and form to our shadowy conceptions of beauty, fills a void in our spiritual nature… — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
Helped are those who create anything at all, for they shall relive the thrill of their own conception and realize a partnership… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
In accordance with my conception of life, I have chosen not to bring children into the world. A coin is examined, and… — Peter Wessel Zapffe Copy Share Image
I draw to shock myself out of a too-easy rhythm - I may begin with no conception whatever, an image emerges .… — Sean William Scott Copy Share Image
“Before you accomplish your dreams physically, your inner make up, mindset, emotions and perception have fought the battle mentally and that already… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
All higher motives, ideals, conceptions, sentiments in a man are of no account if they do not come forward to strengthen him… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
The man with the average mentality, but with control, with a definite goal, and a clear conception of how it can be… — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
The function of criticism is the reeducation of perception of works of art? The conception that its business is to appraise, to… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Attempts to juggle domestic responsibilities with artistic production have often resulted in smaller bodies of work, and often works smaller in scale,… — Whitney Chadwick Copy Share Image
The Jewish conception of the Jews as the Chosen People who must eventually rule the world forms indeed the basis of Rabbinical… — Nesta Helen Webster Copy Share Image
The inclusion of consequences in the conception of what we have done is an acknowledgement that we are parts of the world,… — Thomas Nagel Copy Share Image
Anarchism does not repudiate the right of ownership, but it has a conception thereof sufficiently different from [others'] to include the possibility… — Benjamin Tucker Copy Share Image
...Nature builds up her refined and invisible architecture, with a delicacy eluding our conception, yet with a symmetry and beauty which we… — John Herschel Copy Share Image
That there should absolutely be nothing at all is utterly impossible. The mind, let it stretch its conceptions ever so far, can… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
Things and persons appear to us according to the light we throw upon them from our own minds. How unconsciously we judge… — Laura Ingalls Wilder Copy Share Image
With vivid words your just conceptions grace, Much truth compressing in a narrow space; Then many shall peruse, but few complain, And… — John Wolcot Copy Share Image
A conception not reducible to the small change of daily experience is like a currency not exchangeable for articles of consumption; it… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
I believe all life has value, from conception to natural death. And I believe the intentional taking of human life, except to… — Tom Coburn Copy Share Image
Inspiration demands the active cooperation of the intellect joined with enthusiasm, and it is under such conditions that marvelous conceptions, with all… — Giorgio Vasari Copy Share Image
All one's work might have been better done; but this is a sort of reflection a worker must put aside courageously if… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image