People are imitative and imitation is bound to be unintelligent. They want to do exactly the things which others are doing. That… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Without the suitable conditions life could not exist. But both life and its conditions set forth the operations of inscrutable Power. We… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
We prefer people who are trying to imitate us more than those who are trying to equal us. This is because imitation… — Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable Copy Share Image
The priestly vocation is essentially a call to sanctity, in the form that derives from the Sacrament of Holy Orders. Sanctity is… — Pope John Paul I Copy Share Image
When inquiry is suppressed by previous knowledge, or by the authority and experience of another, then learning becomes mere imitation, and imitation… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
As the world attracts us with its appearance, and abundance and variety, it is not easy to turn away from it unless… — Pope Leo I Copy Share Image
A great part of art consists in imitation. For the whole conduct of life is based on this: that what we admire… — Quintilian Copy Share Image
“Now, it is of course well known that Christ continually uses the expression 'imitators.' He never says that he asks for admirers,… — Søren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
As much as I live I shall not imitate them or hate myself for being different to them — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
Whatever the gender of the participants, all pornography including male-male gay pornography is an imitation of the male-female, conqueror-victim paradigm, and almost… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
When I'm alone in my apartment, I open my Garage Band and just, you know, record these weird imitations of celebrities -… — Charice Pempengco Copy Share Image
I believe that a large part of the training in the regional theaters is in imitation of the British style of acting.… — Arthur Penn Copy Share Image
By close inspection... you will discover the manner of handling the artifices of contrast, glazing, and other expedients, by which good colorists… — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share Image
"Nationwide" featured an amazing collection of apprentice impersonators. From all over Britain, schoolchildren materialised via local studios to give us their imitations… — Clive James Copy Share Image
“Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings,… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
“As a result of his experiments he concluded that imitation was a real evil that had to be broken before real rhetoric… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
The young need old men. They need men who are not ashamed of age, not pathetic imitations of themselves. ... Parents are… — Peter Ustinov Copy Share Image
I know imitation is the highest form of flattery, but stealing one's identity is totally different. — AnnaLynne McCord Copy Share Image
Men nearly always follow the tracks made by others and proceed in their affairs by imitation, even though they cannot entirely keep… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
I had still the ambition, formed in Sligo in my teens, of living in imitation of Thoreau on Innisfree, a little island… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
[My works are] an imitation of my own past and present and of my own creative vitality as I experience them in… — Barbara Hepworth Copy Share Image
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