The scandalous bronze-lacquer age of hungry animalisms, spiritual impotences, and mendacities, will have to run its course, till the pit follow it. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Impotence, fetishism, bisexuality, and bondage are all facts of life, and our fiction should reflect that. — Rick Moody Copy Share Image
Not their love of humanity, but the impotence of their love, prevents the Christians of today - burning us. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
To men of a certain type The suspicion that they are incapable of loving Is as disturbing to their self-esteem As, in… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
To lese-majeste and contempt of court, we must add the crime of lese-million, that fearful indignity we visit on the rich when… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
The peace of the man who has forsworn the use of the bullet seems to me not quite peace, but a canting… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
As long as you don't make waves, ripples, life seems easy. But that's condemning yourself to impotence and death before you are… — Jeanne Moreau Copy Share Image
Living at a beach, near a river mouth, taught him the impotence of impatience at events moving at nature's pace. — Tony Bishop Copy Share Image
“Nearly always, so as to live at peace with ourselves, we disguise our own impotence and weakness as calculation and policy; it… — Benjamin Constant Copy Share Image
The hood-winked husband shows his anger, and the word jealous is flung in his face. Jealous husband equals betrayed husband. And there… — August Strindberg Copy Share Image
The psychological impotence of our enraged generation must be traced to the overwhelming accusation of insincerity which every man and woman has… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Much of the impotence of American churches is tied to a profound ignorance and apathy about justification. Our people live in a… — Kevin DeYoung Copy Share Image
Often men's impulses to coerce and degrade women seem to express not a confident assumption of dominance but a desire to retaliate… — Ellen Willis Copy Share Image
In my utter impotence to test the authenticity of the report of my senses, to know whether the impressions they make on… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
No man deserves to be praised for his goodness, who has it not in his power to be wicked. Goodness without that… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“There is a noticeable element of the pathological in some current leftist critiques, which I tend to attribute to feelings of guilt… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
To a large extent, the aged in our society are ghettoized. Old people are seen as useless, bypassed by history, old-fashioned, in… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
“ What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery? (Just to give you an idea, Proust's reply was 'To be… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Wise people are able to give themselves gracefully to seemingly contradictory experiences, because they know that they belong to different seasons of… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
Each thing has its word, but the word has become a thing by itself. Why shouldn't I find it? Why can't a… — Hugo Ball Copy Share Image
The reward of commercial civilization is the ability to consume a never-ending array of products.There are limits beyond which commodities cannot be… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Read for yourselves, read for the sake of your inspiration, for the sweet turmoil in your lovely head. But also read against… — Adam Zagajewski Copy Share Image
Bold prayers honor God, and God honors bold prayers… The bigger the circle we draw, the better, because God gets more glory.… — Mark Batterson Copy Share Image
Our reliance in this country is on the inquiring, individual human mind. Our strength is founded there; our resilience, our ability to… — Archibald MacLeish Copy Share Image
Their insatiable lust for power is only equaled by their incurable impotence in exercising it. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“Man on his own is impotent and because of this impotence and the idea that he can do everything, there is a… — Osho Copy Share Image
Thus, statesmanlike, I'll saucily impose, And safe from action, valiantly advise; Sheltered in impotence, urge you to blows, And being good for… — John Wilmot Copy Share Image
“The world was full of forces you couldn't fight against which suddenly loomed up and aimed a crushing blow at you.” — Tarjei Vesaas Copy Share Image
Every problem born of our poverty brought with it a sense of impotence: No escape, no help, anywhere! — Rose Pastor Stokes Copy Share Image
“The only alternative to making mistakes is for someone to make all your decisions for you, in which case you will make… — Grace Llewellyn Copy Share Image
Servile doubt argues an impotence of mind, that says we fear because we dare not meet misfortunes. — Aaron Hill Copy Share Image
He knows not how to speak who cannot be silent; still less how to act with vigour and decision. - Who hastens… — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
Lacking many of the essential implements, it irritated me to be reduced to impotence in the face of artistic projects to which… — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
The more we realize our minuteness and our impotence in the face of cosmic forces, the more amazing becomes what human beings… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I've only myself to blame for it, my impotence most of all and my weakness. If I do any good work now… — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
Most people's lives are nothing more than pointlessly frantic activity used as a psychological defense against their own impotence and fear. — Tucker Max Copy Share Image
O impotence of mind, in body strong! But what is strength without a double share Of wisdom, vast, unwieldy, burdensome, Proudly secure,… — John Milton Copy Share Image
Whether a watercolor is inferior to an oil [painting], or whether a drawing, an etching, or a photograph is not as important… — Paul Strand Copy Share Image
Security was the demand which set in motion labour movements in history; trade unions, friendly societies, consumer cooperatives were all about compensating… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
Israel claims it needs nuclear weapons as a deterrent against any threat to its existence. The Arab world in return feels that… — Mohamed ElBaradei Copy Share Image
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