I was taught as a young person that the far political right and the far political left aren't located on a spectrum… — C.E. Morgan Copy Share Image
The modern idea of a Great Man is one who stands at the lonely extremity of some single line of development-- — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Like Patience gazing on kings' graves, and smiling Extremity out of act. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
No bit of the natural world is more valuable or more vulnerable than the tree bit. Nothing is more like ourselves, standing… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
I'm interested in the dark side of man. I'm interested in taboos, and murder is the greatest taboo. Characters are fascinating in… — Elizabeth George Copy Share Image
Let brothers and sisters from one end of the world, speak in all brotherly love, all affection, and one sweetness, to their… — Keshub Chandra Sen Copy Share Image
My parents were not affluent people and were not - didn't come from the extremities of education. My mother had a high… — Dwight Yoakam Copy Share Image
When I am asked about influences, I always say I bow down to Fred Astaire, because when you look at him dancing… — Alan Rickman Copy Share Image
I trust we shall never be reduced to the painful extremity of seeking the aid of Mirabeau. — Marie Antoinette Copy Share Image
Perfect reason flees all extremity, and leads one to be wise with sobriety. — Moliere Copy Share Image
Whilst America hath been the land of promise to Europeans, and their descendants, it hath been the vale of death to millions… — St. George Tucker Copy Share Image
I will only observe, that that ethereal sense - sight, and touch, which is at the other extremity of the scale, have… — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin Copy Share Image
This it is that gives a majesty so pure and touching to the historic figure of Christ; self-abandonment to God, uttermost surrender,… — James Martineau Copy Share Image
At the extremity of hardship comes relief and at the tightening of the chains of trials and tribulations comes ease. — Boonaa Mohammed Copy Share Image
Nevertheless if any skillful Servant of Nature shall bring force to bear on matter, and shall vex it and drive it to… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
There are, broadly speaking, two types of drinkers. There is the man whom we all know, stupid, unimaginative, whose brain is bitten… — Jack London Copy Share Image
Many a sin has sullied me in body and in soul because I did not restrain my thoughts nor guard my lips:… — Saint Ambrose Copy Share Image
The generation of seeds ... is therefore marvelous and analogous to the other productions of living things. For first of all an… — Marcello Malpighi Copy Share Image
At issue in the Hiss Case was the question whether this sick society, which we call Western civilization, could in its extremity… — Whittaker Chambers Copy Share Image
The horrors have made the legend of Mandelstam and are inevitably the lens through which we read his work and life. But… — Christian Wiman Copy Share Image
Absurd, irreducible; nothing — not even a profound and secret delirium of nature — could explain it. Obviously I did not know… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
The barbarian chieftain, who defended his country against the Roman invasion, driven to the remotest extremity of Britain, and stimulating his followers… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
Gratitude and treachery are merely the two extremities of the same procession. You have seen all of it that is worth staying… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
