There are ancient and modern poems which breathe, in their entirety and in every detail, the divine breath of irony. In such… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
There is scarcely anything more important in the government of men than the exact - I will ever say pedantic - observance… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Study the great brush drawings of the Chinese and Japanese... When we try to imitate their conventions for perspective, form and texture… — John French Sloan Copy Share Image
The development of the faculty of attention forms the real object and almost the sole interest of studies. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
We must see all scars as beauty. Okay? This will be our secret. Because take it from me, a scar does not… — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
Our society is so caught up in winning, we forget that most of the great men and women in history have, at… — Carleton Young Copy Share Image
Extremists and populist movements are exploiting people's fear of those who are not like us. We can see the consequences in the… — Kjell Magne Bondevik Copy Share Image
When a type design is good it is not because each individual letter of the alphabet is perfect in form, but because… — Frederic Goudy Copy Share Image
Architecture is life, or at least it is life itself taking form and therefore it is the truest record of life as… — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
When you form a team, why do you try to form a team? Because teamwork builds trust and trust builds speed. — Russel Honore Copy Share Image
Angel and Muse approach from without; the Angel sheds light and the Muse gives form (Hesiod learned of them). Gold leaf or… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
She had won the battle against her memories. But one form of torture remained, untouched by the years, the torture of the… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
War in its essence is another form of capitalism. Wars make people rich - and they make a lot of people poor,… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
What is necessary is to teach each class and profession the importance of the others. All together form one mighty body; labourer,… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Ambitious people know that everything they do and every discipline they adhere to, form the links in the chain of events that… — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
Even respectable characters speak of a monarchical form of government without horror. — George Washington Copy Share Image
An isolated person requires correspondence as a means of seeing his ideas as others see them, and thus guarding against the dogmatisms… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Before God manifested Himself, when all things were still hidden in Him... He began by forming an imperceptible point; that was His… — Albert Pike Copy Share Image
It is true that the path of human destiny cannot but appal him who surveys a section of it. But he will… — Max Weber Copy Share Image
Play is kids' work in that it is a form of experiential learning that contributes directly to a person's ability to handle… — Jill Vialet Copy Share Image
one of Mr. [Thomas] Hardy's ancestors must have married a weeping willow. There are pages and pages in his collected poems which… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
Obviously, there's the seedy side of the strip club world and pole dancing. But, pole dancing, as an art form, is really… — Megalyn Echikunwoke Copy Share Image
Most people, if they were generous, were so because they thought life was short and that one must make the most of… — Jennifer Donnelly Copy Share Image
Americans spend 3 billion hours per year filling out tax forms and keeping tax records. — Jim Ramstad Copy Share Image
Of course I was wearing make-up, I never went anywhere without red lipstick for 25 years! It was a form of self-preservation… — Nan Goldin Copy Share Image
I feel the theatre is the most unique one of all [the arts] for collaboration. I feel very fortunate to be in… — Susan Stroman Copy Share Image
The great cry that rises from our manufacturing cities, louder than their furnace blast, is all in very deed for this, that… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
The left's obsession with corporations as a spawn of evil is pathological paranoia. A corporation is just one form of organizing a… — Mike Rosen Copy Share Image
The honest and serious student of American history will recall that our Founding Fathers managed to write both the Declaration of Independence… — Clarence Manion Copy Share Image
When you meditate or pray... both are forms of meditation... you give up control and find the answer and you open yourself… — Erin Gray Copy Share Image
Victories and defeats form part of everyone's life - everyone, that is, except cowards, as you call them, because they never lose… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
The net effect of increasing scale, centralization of capital, vertical integration and diversification within the corporate form of enterprise has been to… — David Harvey Copy Share Image
If you're smart enough you realise that your possessions possess you in their turn. Collecting has a neurotic aspect. I find it… — Thomas Koerfer Copy Share Image
Several technological and political forces have converged, and that has produced a global, Web-enabled playing field that allows for multiple forms of… — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
But really it’s condescending and patronizing not to make fun of someone because they’re old or stupid or crippled or morbidly obese.… — Paul Neilan Copy Share Image