When you're young, you wonder what all these old people are droning on about, trying to impart their wisdom. It's not relevant… — Helen Mirren Copy Share Image
As an occupation in declining years, I declare I think saving is useful, amusing and not unbecoming. It must be a perpetual… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
The gentleman does not needlessly and unnecessarily remind an offender of a wrong he may have committed against him. He cannot only… — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
From my first year on the faculty, there was always so much more I wanted to impart to the students. I decided… — Clayton M. Christensen Copy Share Image
We live in a profoundly nonintellectual culture, made all the worse by a passive hedonism abetted by the spread of wealth and… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
The doctors take the bodily evidence as the disease. . . . disease is itself an impudent opinion. He throws off the… — Phineas Quimby Copy Share Image
That which we call character is a reserved force which acts directly by presence, and without means. It is conceived of as… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Early on, I settled on the first-person strategy as a way to deal with exposition and world-description issues. As long as the… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
The philanthropist too often surrounds mankind with the remembrance of his own cast- off griefs as an atmosphere, and calls it sympathy.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
First follow Nature, and your judgment frame By her just standard, which is still the same: Unerring nature, still divinely bright, One… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Schools are not intended to moralize a wicked world, but to impart knowledge and develop intelligence, with only two social aims in… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
Deliberate long before thou consecrate a friend, and when thy impartial justice concludes him worthy of thy bosom, receive him joyfully, and… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
All sound heard at the greatest possible distance produces one and the same effect, a vibration of the universal lyre, just as… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The teachers of small children are paid more than they were, but still far less than the importance of their work deserves,… — Dorothy Canfield Fisher Copy Share Image
How often have I been guilty of being the Holy Spirit in their lives? It is my job along with my husbands… — Carolyn Mahaney Copy Share Image
What I try to impart to a musician is to really try to practice the instrument in a really sincere way. Learn… — Roscoe Mitchell Copy Share Image
Books are faithful repositories, which may be awhile neglected or forgotten; but when they are opened again, will again impart their instruction:… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
A book full of brilliance imparts some of it even to its opponents. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The true Christian is like sandalwood, which imparts its fragrance to the axe which cuts it, without doing any harm in return. — Sadhu Sundar Singh Copy Share Image
In the Kabbala, it says that we receive the light in order to impart the light, and thus we repair the world. — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
A sacrament by virtue of which each imparts nothing but vexations to the other. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
In war, the stronger overcomes the weaker. In business, the stronger imparts strength to the weaker. — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
True teachers not only impart knowledge and method but awaken the love of learning by their own reflected love. — Robert Grudin Copy Share Image
On the unconscious level, touch seems to impart a subliminal sense of caring and connection. — Leonard Mlodinow Copy Share Image
His glorious Person evokes admiration for and honor of Him, as He imparts His nature into me. — J. B. Torrance Copy Share Image
The smells of slow cooking spread around the house and impart a unique warmth matched only by the flavour of the food. — Yotam Ottolenghi Copy Share Image
Never try to live on the old manna, nor seek to find help in Egypt. All must come from Jesus or thou… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
While snow the window-panes bedim, The fire curls up a sunny charm, Where, creaming o'er the pitcher's rim, The flowering ale is… — John Clare Copy Share Image
Salt, when dissolved in water, may disappear, but it does not cease to exist. We can be sure of its presence by… — Sadhu Sundar Singh Copy Share Image
He is so infinitely blessed, that every perception of His blissful presence imparts a gladness to the heart. Every degree of approach… — Susanna Wesley Copy Share Image
Photography, as an invention, was both art and science. The view it gave us of the world was in some measure acceptable… — Joseph Kosuth Copy Share Image
Primitive times are lyrical, ancient times epical, modern times dramatic. The ode sings of eternity, the epic imparts solemnity tohistory, the drama… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
What a rare gift, by the by, is that of manners! how difficult to define, how much more difficult to impart! Better… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
I try to impart this when people say they want to be a writer and they want to go into show biz.… — Larry Wilmore Copy Share Image
Unless a woman has a decided pleasure and facility in teaching, an honest knowledge of everything she professes to impart, a liking… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Copy Share Image
