The feminine graces of Madame de Sevigne's genius are exquisitely charming; but the philosophy and eloquence of Madame de Stael are above… — James Mackintosh Copy Share Image
But I make a distinction between the doctrines of the Church, which matter, and the structure invented by half a dozen Italians… — Bernadette Devlin Copy Share Image
The boundaries between you and not-you — what lies beyond your skin — relax and become more permeable. While infused with love… — Barbara Fredrickson Copy Share Image
We don't make a distinction between civilians and non-civilians, innocents and non-innocents. Only between Muslims and unbelievers. And the life of an… — Omar Bakri Muhammad Copy Share Image
A distinction is made between artists who work directly from nature and those who work purely from imagination. Neither if these methods… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
Motion pictures are of course a different medium of expression than the public speech, the radio, the stage, the novel, or the… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
Now you have to ask a question - is that really, is capitalism really about the ability of a handful of rich… — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
So what is the difference between "power thinking" and "positive" thinking? The distinction is slight but profound. To me, people use positive… — T. Harv Eker Copy Share Image
To the man who is truly ethical all life is sacred, including that which from the human point of view seems lower… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
I think that genre distinctions basically boil down to marketing categories, which are outdated. Any time people have an argument about them,… — Emily Gould Copy Share Image
Society is produced by our wants, and government by wickedness; the former promotes our happiness positively by uniting our affections, the latter… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Sometimes you find the panel, but it doesn’t open; sometimes it opens, and your gaze meets nothing but a mouse skeleton. But… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
Nature has not placed us in an inferior rank to men, no more than the females of other animals, where we see… — Mary Wortley Montagu Copy Share Image
... the loss of belief in future states is politically, though certainly not spiritually, the most significant distinction betweenour present period and… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
To rejoice in life, to find the world beautiful and delightful to live in, was a mark of the Greek spirit which… — Edith Hamilton Copy Share Image
There are some despotic governments so filled with a feeling of insecurity that they regard the free life of culture as a… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
When I look at a body it gives me choice of what to put in a painting, what will suit me and… — Lucian Freud Copy Share Image
For years I have told my students that I been trying to train executives rather than clerks. The distinction between the two… — Carroll Quigley Copy Share Image
Compared to men writers of like distinction and years of life, few women writers have had lives of unbroken productivity, or leave… — Tillie Olsen Copy Share Image
Language fails not because thought fails, but because no verbal symbols can do justice to the fullness and richness of thought. Ifwe… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Private property ... is a Creature of Society, and is subject to the Calls of that Society, whenever its Necessities shall require… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
