The last sort I shall mention are verbal critics - mere word-catchers, fellows that pick out a word in a sentence and… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
My father died in France, and my sisters and I went over with my mum to bring back his body. I remember… — Rachel Joyce Copy Share Image
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I was given a thick paperback copy of the 'Guinness Book of Records' when I was 11 years old, and I read… — Russell Smith Copy Share Image
Advice is one thing that is freely given away, but watch that you take only what is worth having. He who takes… — George S. Clason Copy Share Image
Children are nowhere taught, in any systematic way, to distinguish true from false, or meaningful from meaningless, statements. Why is this so?… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Credit means that a certain confidence is given, and a certain trust reposed. Is that trust justified? And is that confidence wise?… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
It is for man to establish the reign of liberty in the midst of the world of the given. To gain the… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
In order to the attaining of all useful knowledge this is most necessary, that we fear God; we are not qualified to… — Matthew Henry Copy Share Image
Our patriotic fervor was the result of the old and widespread belief in the idea of American exceptionalism, the idea that America… — Peggy Noonan Copy Share Image
I'd like to give every young teacher some good news. Teaching is a very easy job. Administrators will tell you what to… — Rafe Esquith Copy Share Image
The highest place was given to Him, who died on the cross, far above all principality and power, and might, and dominion,… — Arno C. Gaebelein Copy Share Image
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If men lived like men indeed, their houses would be temples -- temples which we should hardly dare to injure, and in… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
When I was in my early 20s I converted to Catholicism after a long period of searching. What I think drew me… — Kevin Hart Copy Share Image
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Even Alexia, spinster that she was, was given an allowance large enough to dress her to the height of fashion— although she… — Gail Carriger Copy Share Image
Where much is given, much is required. Our Heavenly Father asks His daughters to walk in virtue, to live in righteousness so… — Margaret D. Nadauld Copy Share Image
The bottom line is that the position of the Sun relative to the stars slowly changes for any given date, and over… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
It should be noted that no ethically-trained software engineer would ever consent to write a DestroyBaghdad procedure. Basic professional ethics would instead… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I should have told You before talking in terms of Forever that any given day wears me out and works me sour,… — Buddy Wakefield Copy Share Image
I'm saying that there were many great naturalists before Darwin's time who were very pious people and who knew more about nature… — Greg Graffin Copy Share Image
To be fair to the Inquisition, they only used confessions extracted after the torture had ended, which let them claim that admissions… — Simon Hoggart Copy Share Image
People in life take on certain stories and say, 'I'm going to be defined by this story and I'm going to live… — Stana Katic Copy Share Image
It is out of fashion in these days to look backward rather than forward. About the only American given to it is… — John Crowe Ransom Copy Share Image
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Such abstraction which refuses to accept the given universe of facts as the final context of validation, such "transcending" analysis of the… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
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My first big break was 'White Chicks.' I had only been acting for about two years and I certainly didn't feel like… — Rochelle Aytes Copy Share Image
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Can quantum mechanics represent the fact that an electron finds itself approximately in a given place and that it moves approximately with… — Werner Heisenberg Copy Share Image
It's tough and it should be tough - it should never be easy to be given millions of pounds to make a… — Russell T Davies Copy Share Image
But the further step, by means of which a civilization is given its quality or culture, is only attained by a process… — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
Gratitude is usually generated in one of two ways. One, by feeling a genuine appreciation for the life that you were given… — Alex Green Copy Share Image
I'm interested in why people compromise when they shouldn't. It comes back to what V's about in a sense. We've all got… — David Lloyd Copy Share Image
This life that has been given to us as a gift, as such a precious gift. To really try to understand it,… — Prem Rawat Copy Share Image
Good design is a visual statement that maximizes the life goals of the people in a given culture (or, more realistically, the… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
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I think the biggest, saddest thing that happens in our lives is that we just don't embrace the things that could make… — Adam Duritz Copy Share Image
The Lord had given them the day and the Lord had given them the strength. And the day and the strength had… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image