You are merely the lens in the beam. You can only receive, give, and possess the light as the lens does. If… — Dag Hammarskjold Copy Share Image
Adversity, if a man is set down to it by degrees, is more supportable with equanimity by most people than any great… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
The cause of rain is now, I consider, no longer an object of doubt. If two masses of air of unequal temperatures,… — John Dalton Copy Share Image
Boston has carried the practice of hypocrisy to the n-th degree of refinement, grace, and failure. — Lincoln Steffens Copy Share Image
My dad is a Chatty Cathy, the social butterfly; friendly; knows everybody in the whole world by six degrees; tells me that… — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
Consequently, the only thing I learned in school was typing. In the old days, people like me who don't have college degrees… — Joichi Ito Copy Share Image
It is not possible, given any degree of optimism and generosity in regard to people in general, to set a time limit… — Earle Brown Copy Share Image
The world is burdened with young fogies. Old men with ossified minds are easily dealt with. But men who look young, act… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
I blush easily. I have difficulty meeting people's eye, difficulty with public speaking, the normal afflictions of the shy, but not to… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
There are no innocents. There are, however, different degrees of responsibility. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When you reach your sixties, you have to decide whether you're going to be a sot or an ascetic. In other words… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
Murder? You mean he's dead?" "No. He's resting comfortably," I said. "People always sleep best with their heads at a ninety-degree angle.… — Kelley Armstrong Copy Share Image
To a degree which is difficult to determine, the esoteric impulse in twentieth-century music, literature and the arts reflects calculation. It looks… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
Of Cooking. This is an art of various forms, the object of which is to give ordinary observations the appearance and character… — Charles Babbage Copy Share Image
What is envy? It is nothing but passive jealousy. Maybe jealousy is too strong a phenomenon; envy is a little passive. The… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
You are not obligated to pull yourself up by your bootstraps and find a way to conquer the odds, to be stronger… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
If we would reach a degree of civilization higher and grander than any yet attained, we should welcome to our ample continent… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
My first degree came years before my second. I had wanted to be a physicist, but I flunked calculus. — Elizabeth Moon Copy Share Image
Some people are all quality; you would think they are made up of nothing but title and genealogy. The stamp of dignity… — Roger L'Estrange Copy Share Image
For no continuity of social act is possible without a corresponding social status and the many different kinds of act required in… — Kenneth Burke Copy Share Image
Life is the will to power; our natural desire to dominate and reshape the world to fit our own preferences and assert… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Have you ever analyzed things to the degree where you can’t really remember the difference between what’s real and what you’ve created… — Edie Sedgwick Copy Share Image
It's a 360-degree sound experience. Like you're in the middle of the band. A lot of people have the technology to play… — Aaron Neville Copy Share Image
... the way we view death determines, to a surprising degree, the way we live our lives. — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
