The linguistic and literary reality of the biblical tradition is folkloristic in essence. The concept of a benei Israel ... is a… — Thomas L. Thompson Copy Share Image
Connecting with the people who are meant to be part of your own North Star is much more important than any aspect… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
The essence of the liberal outlook lies not in what opinions are held, but in how they are held; instead of being… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The heroic soul does not sell its justice and its nobleness. It does not ask to dine nicely and to sleep warm.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I never wanted to accept the position of the observer who is not involved in the situation. The technique and the aesthetics… — Antoine D'Agata Copy Share Image
I was a janitor when I was 16, cleaning out garbage rooms in Washington, D.C., and they were foul. It gets really… — Jonathan Banks Copy Share Image
As you experience success in applying kaizen to clear goals like weight loss or career advancement, remember to hold onto its essence:… — Robert D. Maurer Copy Share Image
Integrity is what you do behind closed doors or when you think nobody is watching. Integrity is the true essence of who… — Erik Qualman Copy Share Image
Except God no substance can be granted or conceived. .. Everything, I say, is in God, and all things which are made,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is one Cosmic Essence, all-pervading, all-knowing, all-powerful. This nameless formless essence can be approached by any name, any form, any symbol… — Swami Satchidananda Copy Share Image
There is no doubt that the time to act is now. It is now that timely action can avert disaster. It is… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
And why is it "homophobic" for Senate Republicans to look askance at sex in public bathrooms? Is the Times claiming that sodomy… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
...the source of all great mathematics is the special case, the concrete example. It is frequent in mathematics that every instance of… — Paul Halmos Copy Share Image
The essence of America - that which really unites us - is not ethnicity, or nationality or religion - it is an… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
“I am the soul…but is that true?’ she asked herself aloud. ‘What am I actually? I am not the soul, I am… — Ana Rangel & Gerry O'malley Copy Share Image
So far there has been no philosopher in whose hands philosophy has not grown into an apology for knowledge; on this point,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
In the past, humans hesitated when they took lives, even non-human lives. But society had changed, and they no longer felt that… — Hayao Miyazaki Copy Share Image
So for thy spirit did devise Its Maker seemly garniture, Of its own essence parcel pure.-- From grave simplicities a dress, And… — Francis Thompson Copy Share Image
I'm not going to lay down in words the lure of this place. Every great writer in the land, from Faulkner to… — Chris Rose Copy Share Image
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It is on the acceptance or rejection of the theory of the Unity of all in Nature, in its ultimate Essence, that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What disconcerts the modern world at its very roots is not being sure, and not seeing how it ever could be sure,… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
I haven't fought with anyone else in over two thousand years. (Kyrian) Well, you're never too old to learn. (Amanda) You can't… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
I would like to comment on the God fiber within each living thing. This essence, this fiber of love and grace, runs… — Meredith L. Young-Sowers Copy Share Image
Expecting the best means that you put your whole heart (i.e. the central essence of your personality) into what you want to… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
But if the cow is purple, you'd notice it, OK? The thing that's going to decide what gets talked about, what gets… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
In a play, certainly, the subject is of more importance than in any other work of art. Infelicity, triviality, vagueness of subject,… — Henry James Copy Share Image
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The essence of man is his freedom. Sin is committed in that freedom. Sin can therefore not be attributed to a defect… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
She was incomprehensible, for, in her, soul and spirit were one - the beauty of her body was the essence of her… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I named my album Year of the Gentleman. Just looking at how the essence of what it is to be a gentleman… — Ne-Yo Copy Share Image
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I suppose that Italy must always lie like some lovely sunken island at the bottom of all passionate dreams, from which at… — Mary Hunter Austin Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of existentialist; first, those who are Christian...and on the other hand the atheistic existentialists, among whom...I class myself.… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes - every form of animate or inanimate… — Eugenio Montale Copy Share Image
This recognition, in real life, of a rhythm of surfaces, lines, and values is for me the essence of photography; composition should… — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
To me, that ugliness, that grotesqueness - that's the essence [of life]. That's where you realize, it's not about all the consonance… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
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All I know is when I start getting serious about songwriting... it's like a playground. All responsibilities slip away and you're with… — Laura Nyro Copy Share Image
![“To me, that ugliness, that grotesqueness - that's the essence [of life]. That's where you realize, it's not about all the consonance and the harmony. It's all the parts that are wrong that help explain why we're drawn to something - what the mystery is - just as much as the beautiful things.” quote by Carrie Brownstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/a1a/carrie-brownstein-1580_beautiful_to-me-that-ugliness-that-grotesqueness-t_1087725.jpg)
