Bowing, ceremonious, formal compliments, stiff civilities, will never be politeness; that must be easy, natural, unstudied; and what will give this but… — William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham Copy Share Image
Seven to eleven is a huge chunk of life, full of dulling and forgetting. It is fabled that we slowly lose the… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
The American doctrinaire is the converse of the American demagogue, and, in this way, is scarcely less injurious to the public. The… — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image
Learning to speak, therefore, and the power it brings of intelligent converse with others, is a most impressive further step along the… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
When I meet with any persons who write obscurely or converse confusedly, I am apt to suspect two things; first, that such… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
This conversion into prayer of our everyday joys, sorrows, hopes and desires is at first a conscious labor, but after a while… — Sheila Cassidy Copy Share Image
You have been created with the ability to change the world. Every single choice you make ... every single action you take… — Andy Andrews Copy Share Image
There is an enormous inertia that prevents people from change. You must always remember that it is impossible to make something better… — Amar Bose Copy Share Image
If (O.J. Simpson) is acquitted, I will renounce my citizenship. And if I converse with him at a cocktail party, I will… — Dick Cavett Copy Share Image
Nothing humbles and breaks the heart of a sinner like mercy and love. Souls that converse much with sin and wrath, may… — Thomas Brooks Copy Share Image
Happily, and thanks to God, there are orifices through which our inner life constantly escapes, and the soul, like the blood, hath… — Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire Copy Share Image
I think it is not very difficult to discern by the duties and converses of Christians, what frames their spirits are under.… — John Flavel Copy Share Image
The discreet man finds out the talents of those he converses with, and knows how to apply them to proper uses. Accordingly,… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
By one hour's intimate access to the throne of grace, where the Lord causes His glory to pass before the soul that… — John Newton Copy Share Image
Consider how august a privilege it is, when angels are present, and archangels throng around, when cherubim and seraphim encircle with their… — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
The disciples were not losing time when they sat beside their Master, and held quiet converse with Him under the olives of… — Theodore L. Cuyler Copy Share Image
When friends grow cold, and the converse of intimates languishes into vapid civility and commonplace, these only continue the unaltered countenance of… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
There is a moment in the history of every nation, when . . . the perceptive powers reach their ripeness and have… — Marsilio Ficino Copy Share Image
Don't just read it; fight it! Ask your own question, look for your own examples, discover your own proofs. Is the hypothesis… — Paul Halmos Copy Share Image
Good-breeding is not confined to externals, much less to any particular dress or attitude of the body; it is the art of… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
Vanity is the natural weakness of an ambitious man, which exposes him to the secret scorn and derision of those he converses… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
When you are stuck in a group of people who merely trade turns at talking about themselves instead of actually conversing, it… — Carolyn Hax Copy Share Image
An odd contradiction, if the layman were correct in his unconscious assumption that an artist begins with reality and ends with art:… — Robert Motherwell Copy Share Image
For history, I say again, has this and this only for its own: if a man will start upon it, he must… — Lucian Copy Share Image
Imagination is the organ through which the soul within us recognizes a soul without us; the spiritual eye by which the mind… — Henry Norman Hudson Copy Share Image
The love of esteem is the life and soul of society; it unites us to one another: I want your approbation, you… — Anne-Therese de Marguenat de Courcelles Copy Share Image
Our sight is the most perfect and most delightful of all our senses. It fills the mind with the largest variety of… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
With each divine impulse the mind rends the thin rinds of the visible and finite, and comes out into eternity, and inspires… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It generally takes its rise either from an ill-will to mankind, a private inclination to make ourselves esteemed, an ostentation of wit,… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Only he who is capable of a genuine encounter with the other is capable of an authentic encounter with himself, and the… — Pierre Hadot Copy Share Image
Spend in pure converse our eternal day; Think each in each, immediately wise; Learn all we lacked before; hear, know, and say… — Rupert Brooke Copy Share Image
For converse among men, beautiful persons have less need of the mind's commending qualities. Beauty in itself is such a silent orator,… — Owen Feltham Copy Share Image
I say the last 10 percent of the way to perfection takes so much of your life that it isn't worth the… — Yvon Chouinard Copy Share Image
All decays begin in the closet; no heart thrives with out much secret converse with God, and nothing will make amends for… — John Berridge Copy Share Image
There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be said by words. The converse, however,… — Clifford Truesdell Copy Share Image
Bad roads and indifferent inns, ... the continual converse one is obliged to have with the vilest part of mankind - innkeepers,… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
We twain have met like the ships upon the sea, Who behold an hour's converse, so short, so sweet: One little hour!… — Alexander Smith Copy Share Image
In this work (peace building), the role of religion is fundamental. It is not possible to build bridges between people while forgetting… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
