There was something terribly enthralling in the exercise of influence. No other activity was like it. To project one's soul into some… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The Son of God, prompted by the same infinite love, laid aside his divine glory and mode of existence, emptied himself exchanged… — Philip Schaff Copy Share Image
It is one of history's most mocking ironies that the German customs union, which set out to dominate Europe and conquer Britain… — Enoch Powell Copy Share Image
There are so many forms, I believe people are bright enough to make their own laws, more subtle ones than we've had… — Joan Littlewood Copy Share Image
Women, who are the prime victims of religion, and perhaps in some, stockholm syndrome effect, often form the most fervent advocates of… — Matthew Chapman Copy Share Image
I'm one of those writers who started off writing novels and came to writing short stories later, partly because I didn't have… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
Being brought up in a culture is a matter of learning appropriate forms of feeling as much as particular ways of thinking. — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
So erst the Sage [Pythagoras] with scientific truth In Grecian temples taught the attentive youth; With ceaseless change how restless atoms pass… — Erasmus Darwin Copy Share Image
Language forms a kind of wealth, which all can make use of at once without causing any diminution of the store, and… — Auguste Comte Copy Share Image
When once the forms of civility are violated, there remains little hope of return to kindness or decency. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Passions weaken, but habits strengthen, with age, and it is the great task of youth to set the current of habit and… — William Edward Hartpole Lecky Copy Share Image
Knowledge in my view is a form of action. It involves endeavors to get it right, and more broadly it concerns aimings,… — Ernest Sosa Copy Share Image
There is a place for everyone, man and woman, old and young, hale and halt; service in a thousand forms is open.… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
The society to which we belong seems to be dying or is already dead. I don't mean to sound dramatic, but clearly… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Well, possibly," I said, feeling my lips twitch again. "But maybe first you would tell us why you chose to manifest yourself… — Katie MacAlister Copy Share Image
We can imagine a society in which no one could survive as a social being because it does not correspond to biologically… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
You know, sarcasm is the lowest form of wit.' 'And yet it is still extremely funny. — Cecelia Ahern Copy Share Image
I am the architect of rock n' roll. I have to be a fan of all its forms. — Little Richard Copy Share Image
I have known Trent Lott for 20 years, ... I don't believe he's racist. But he must proactively send a message to… — John McCain Copy Share Image
...chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, and orangutans are thinking, self-aware beings, capable of planning ahead, who form lasting social bonds with others and have… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
Visual media is the dominant art form in our present day culture, whereas poetry is, at best, a proxy. Yet poetry and… — Denise Duhamel Copy Share Image
Everything and everyone we see, we view through the lenses of our thoughts. Your mind is where your thoughts arise and form.… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
I have this desire to have this immaculate form of love that really doesn't exist, so my obsession goes on through life… — Angel Haze Copy Share Image
The States which form the northern border of the United States westward from the Great Lakes to the Pacific coast include an… — John Moody Copy Share Image
Tragedy is a great storytelling form. It worked extremely well for Shakespeare. It worked extremely well for Jim Cameron with 'Titanic.' — Carlton Cuse Copy Share Image
Antisemitism is just another form of racism. It's the same sickness, whether it's about Christians, about Islamophobia, which is horrible. It's all… — Russell Simmons Copy Share Image
Discipline is the highest form of love. If you really love someone, you have to give them the level of discipline they… — Tom Izzo Copy Share Image
Drunkenness is not only the cause of crime, but it is crime; and if any encourage drunkenness for the sake of the… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
You can still achieve certain things through effort, struggle, determination, and sheer hard work or cunning. But there is no joy in… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The main problem in any democracy is that crowd-pleasers are generally brainless swine who can go out on a stage & whup… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Of course it's possible for political essays to be artful. I just want to call into question the dominance of content over… — John D'Agata Copy Share Image
Well, I think the most realistic ways to keep them [Saddam Hussien & Slobadon Milisevic] isolated in the world of public opinion… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
I wouldn't say the anthropologists were making art, but they were definitely justifying their practices with very personal reasoning, passion, and they… — Aleksandra Mir Copy Share Image
I know of scarcely anything so apt to impress the imagination as the wonderful form of cosmic order expressed by the "Law… — Francis Galton Copy Share Image
Doesn’t it honor Him more when His children no longer see themselves only as sinners saved by grace, but now as heirs… — Bill Johnson Copy Share Image
The domestic relations precede, and in our present existence are worth more than all our other social ties. They give the first… — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image