When we pray for any virtue, we should cultivate the virtue as well as pray for it; the form of your prayer… — Jeremy Taylor Copy Share Image
The arts shows that you're civilized, and it makes life sweet. So you can exist and you can buy more things and… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
Virtual reality is a self-created form of chosen reality. Therefore it exists. — Joan Lowery Nixon Copy Share Image
What a wonderful sleep it had been! Never had sleep so refreshed him, so renewed him, so rejuvenated him! Perhaps he had… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm in good form, taking no interest in things, neglecting clothes, meals, company, and feeling calm and stable as I write. — Bertolt Brecht Copy Share Image
For me, writing stories set, well, wherever they're best set, is a form of cultural curiosity that is uniquely Scottish - we're… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
I wanted to write a song that was outright against war, in any form. — Declan McKenna Copy Share Image
We had lunch that day [with Chris Ellis], and I was talking about this idea. I toyed with it a little bit… — Brent Spiner Copy Share Image
Agriculture probably required a far greater discipline than did any form of food collecting. Seeds had to be planted at certain seasons,… — Charles Heiser Copy Share Image
The face of love is variable. I am able to love without demanding that my relationships assume the structures and forms I… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
It seems as though the goal of my work has always been to dissolve myself completely into the sensations of the surroundings… — Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Copy Share Image
i've always wanted, basically, to do research in the form of a spectacle. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Fiction is not imagination. It is what anticipates imagination by giving it the form of reality. — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
A series of powers are at work within the great stream of Expressionism who have no outward similarity to one another but… — Max Ernst Copy Share Image
Honesty is the best part of any art form. If you don't have that, you're kidding yourself and your listener. — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
Every serious novel is, beyond its immediate thematic preoccupations, a discussion of the craft, a conquest of the form, a conflict with… — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
Internationalism is a community theory of society which is founded on economic, spiritual, and biological facts. It maintains that respect for a… — Christian Lous Lange Copy Share Image
No solution [to the problem of poverty] is so effective as providing income to the poor. Whether in the form of food,… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Laughter is the loaded latency given us by nature as part of our native equipment to break up the stalemates of our… — Jean Houston Copy Share Image
The intrinsic social structure, the family structure and so forth, is certainly in a very bad state. And I think that this… — Kenneth Arrow Copy Share Image
In high school, we studied a lot of poetical forms. I was really interested in the math that was involved and the… — Joanna Newsom Copy Share Image
In ninth grade, I came up with a new form of rebellion. I hadn't been getting good grades, but I decided to… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
I've always seen my campaigns against corruption as political work of a purer form than what opposition leaders usually do. All they… — Alexei Navalny Copy Share Image
Screenplays are not writing. They're a fake form of writing. It's a lot of dialogue and very little atmosphere. Very little description.… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Modern idols or false gods can take such forms as clothes, homes, businesses, machines, automobiles, pleasure boats, and numerous other material deflectors... — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
But precisely this illusion that everything is "clear" is what is blinding us all. It is a serious temptation, and it is… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
All of the philosophers I studied were white (with a few Eastern exceptions), and, for that matter, they were all male. Africa,… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
I love experimental writing, when it's good, and good examples are much more likely to be found in the short form. — Nicholas Royle Copy Share Image
Walking out in the middle of a funeral would be, of course, bad form. So attempting to walk out on one's own… — Steve Hockensmith Copy Share Image
The wise man should withdraw his soul within, out of the crowd, and keep it in freedom and power to judge things… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
We ought not to confine ourselves either to writing or to reading; the one, continuous writing, will cast a gloom over our… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Your talents are worth your devotion. Stop saying you don't have time or it might not make money. Your talents are another… — Tama J. Kieves Copy Share Image
With spots quadrangular of diamond form, ensanguined hearts, clubs typical of strife, and spades, the emblems of untimely graves. — William Cowper Copy Share Image
All government is, in its essence, organized exploitation, and in virtually all of its existing forms it is the implacable enemy of… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
My paintings at their best take that vocabulary and attempt to transpose that into a form that gives respect not only to… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
A married man forms married habits and becomes dependent on marriage just as a sailor becomes dependent on the sea. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Advocating democracy has, by other people, often been taken as a form of imperialism, and not without some justification. So the important… — George Soros Copy Share Image
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