Language does for intelligence what the wheel does for the feet and the body. It enables them to move from thing to… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Hold the period of youth sacred to education, and the period of maturity, when the physical forces begin to flag, equally sacred… — Edward Bellamy Copy Share Image
either you are so underdeveloped that you can't see all that you can do, or you won't sacrifice your ease, your vanity,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Good days are to be gathered like grapes, to be trodden and bottled into wine and kept for age to sip at… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
Let Joy or Ease, let Affluence or Content, And the gay Conscience of a life well spent, Calm ev'ry thought, inspirit ev'ry… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
I think a lot of people who go to drama school have this ease with the text and they all have five… — Tavis Smiley Copy Share Image
I'm not a great one for chatting people up, because it's phony. I don't want people to feel at ease. You want… — Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon Copy Share Image
God does not choose a person for ease and comfort and selfish joy but for a task that will take all that… — William Barclay Copy Share Image
Only when we see that the way of God's law is absolutely inflexible will we see that God's grace is absolutely indispensable.… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
I think poetry can be a kind of secular way in which people can be led to approach the difficult parts of… — Kevin Hart Copy Share Image
When a client is driven to the utmost extremity, it is warmth and food and ease from pain he wants. Peace and… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
There's one good thing about getting in trouble: It seems like you do it in steps. It seems like you don't just… — Christopher Paul Curtis Copy Share Image
I got a chance to be in a society where the barriers between classes - social and economic - are not insuperable,… — Randall Robinson Copy Share Image
It is indolence... Indolence and love of ease; a want of all laudable ambition, of taste for good company, or of inclination… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I had grown up among engineers, and I could remember the engineers of the twenties very well indeed: their open, shining intellects,… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
One reads the truer deeper facts of Reconstruction with a great despair. It is at once so simple and human, and yet… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is life that does the thinking all around us, forming with playful ease the connections our reason can only laboriously patch… — Robert Musil Copy Share Image
I'm great at a deathbed. I've never given tranquillisers or psychiatric medicine. I've given love and fun and creativity and passion and… — Patch Adams Copy Share Image
The first Rudiments of Morality, broach'd by skilful Politicians, to render Men useful to each other as well as tractable, were chiefly… — Bernard de Mandeville Copy Share Image
“Hygge relies on us finding a balance between self-containment and wholehearted participation, personal liberty and awareness of the needs of others. It… — Louisa Thomsen Brits Copy Share Image
Gratitude is a burden upon our imperfect nature, and we are but too willing to ease ourselves of it, or at least… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Another benefit is that the more I blog, the more I maintain and develop a first-person voice, which translates into a much… — Kate Christensen Copy Share Image
Anyone can live contentedly in circumstances of ease and comfort, health and well-being gratification and felicity; but to remain happy and contented… — Abdu'l-Bahá Copy Share Image
Nothing more strongly marks the insufficiency of luxuries than the ease with which people grow accustomed to them; they are rather known… — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
Take every obstacle, challenge and turmoil in life with ease and stay positive. To look back and to blame the past will… — Anil SInha Copy Share Image
England produces under favorable conditions of ease and culture the finest women in the world. And, as the men are affectionate and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I still think that maybe the "afterlife" is just something we made up to ease the pain of loss, to make our… — John Green Copy Share Image
I had always felt that I was an observer, never a participant; that I was watching from behind a thick glass wall… — Tana French Copy Share Image
The tax on capital gains directly affects investment decisions, the mobility and flow of risk capital... the ease or difficulty experienced by… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Astride a horse I am not, nor camel-like carry a load, Subjects I have none, nor follow any sultan's code; I worry… — Saadi Copy Share Image
The tax on capital gains directly affects investment decisions, the mobility and flow of risk capital from static to more dynamic situations,… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
A healthy state can exist only when the men and women who make it up lead clean, vigorous, healthy lives; when the… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I love it when someone wants nothing to do with me. I think it's so much more attractive. You have to be… — Tommy Ton Copy Share Image
Feminist pedagogy can only be liberatory if it is truly revolutionary because the mechanisms of appropriation within white supremacist, capitalist patriarchy are… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
The only principles of public conduct that are worthy of a gentleman or a man are to sacrifice estate, ease, health, and… — James Otis Copy Share Image
I think of love as an action. Finding something that's outside of yourself, to serve someone else's soul, helping to ignite someone… — Michael Franti Copy Share Image
Man desired concord; but nature knows better what is good for his species; she desires discord. Man wants to live easy and… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
I really like the ritual of shaving. I like getting the perfect brush and finding the right sandalwood soap. The act of… — Chris Pine Copy Share Image
Humans feel at home in a world of things, whose essences and laws it can grasp and define in terms of concepts;… — Etienne Gilson Copy Share Image
A woman's counsel brought us first to woe, And made her man his paradise forego, Where at heart's ease he liv'd; and… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
