Taught from their infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and, roaming round its gilt cage,… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
The Orient that appears in Orientalism, then, is a system of representations framed by a whole set of forces that brought the… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
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In this science the illustrations and examples are not confined in their effect merely to the practice they afford in the analytical… — Dionysius Lardner Copy Share Image
The Bible is the written word of God, and because it is written it is confined and limited by the necessities of… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
Whether we live by the seaside, or by the lakes and rivers, or on the prarie, it concerns us to attend to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
But before any great things are accomplished, a memorable change must be made in the system of Education and knowledge must become… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Sin is not confined to the evil things we do. It is the evil within us, the evil which we are. — Karl Barth Copy Share Image
You are not enclosed within your bodies, nor confined to houses or fields. That which is you dwells above the mountain and… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
A large library is apt to distract rather than to instruct the learner; it is much better to be confined to a… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Jupiter, not wanting man's life to be wholly gloomy and grim, has bestowed far more passion than reason --you could reckon the… — Desiderius Erasmus Copy Share Image
The honest man might observe... that no one gets something for nothing; that politicians go in poor and go out rich; that… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
My London constituency in Hackney has one of the highest levels of gun crime in the country. But the problem is no… — Diane Abbott Copy Share Image
At the core of my work there is this eternal back-and-forth between being confined to one's own individuality and that longing to… — Beat Streuli Copy Share Image
I wouldn’t go anywhere in confined spaces now. When one person sneezes it goes all the way through the aircraft. That’s me.… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
If I were an Indian...I would greatly prefer to cast my lot among those of my people who adhere to the free… — George Armstrong Custer Copy Share Image
Examples are cited by soldiers, of men who have seen the cannon pointed, and the fire given to it, and who have… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The fact is that the more we take flight upward [to God], the more our words are confined to the ideas we… — Pope Dionysius Copy Share Image
Obviously, in journalism, you're confined to what happens. And the tendency to embellish, to mythologize, it's in us. It makes things more… — Amy Hempel Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, I liked the newer music that was coming out. I have never really felt confined by any… — Tommy Shaw Copy Share Image
There are a lot of people in this world that listen to wide ranges of music and there should never be a… — Ab-Soul Copy Share Image
One would think that the larger the company is in which we are engaged, the greater variety of thoughts and subjects would… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
At any rate, girls are differently situated. Having no need of deep scientific knowledge, their education is confined more to the ordinary… — William John Wills Copy Share Image
I once worked it out - after $12 million, all millionaires are the same. That's because we're all humans, confined to human… — Ricardo Semler Copy Share Image
The axioms of physics translate the laws of ethics. Thus, "the whole is greater than its part;" "reaction is equal to action;"… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We accepted a definition of ourselves which confined the self to the source and to the limitations of conscious attention. This definition… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
It is in Rousseau's writing above all that history begins to turn from upper-class honour to middle-class humanitarianism. Pity, sympathy and compassion… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
Today the crime novelist has one advantage denied to writers of 'straight' or 'literary' novels. Unlike them he can range over all… — Allan Massie Copy Share Image
A great chess-player is not a great man, for he leaves the world as he found it. No act terminating in itself… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
What is a war criminal? Was not war itself a crime against God and humanity, and, therefore, were not all those who… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
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