The mountain of history books under which we all stand leans so heavily in the other direction-so tremblingly respectful of states and… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Through our inattention, we have wasted the years that we might have used to prepare for lessened oil supplies. The next ten… — Kenneth S. Deffeyes Copy Share Image
Our destruction, should it come at all, will be from...the inattention of the people to the concerns of their government, from their… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
If it so happened that I had once written a best-seller, this was a pure accident, due to inattention and naivete, and… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Training a child is exactly like training a puppy; a little heedless inattention and it is out of hand immediately; the great… — Emily Post Copy Share Image
But miracles are not for the asking; they come only when the stern eyes of God droop shut for a moment, and… — Michel Faber Copy Share Image
“Tell me about yourself, Miss Russell." I started to give him the obligatory response, first the demurral and then the reluctant flat… — Laurie R. King Copy Share Image
The true distinction ... between what is called a fine Regiment, and an indifferent one will ever, upon investigation, be found to… — George Washington Copy Share Image
The art of reasoning becomes of first importance. In this line antiquity has left us the finest models for imitation; I should… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Wilson stopped and stood silent. Inattention dies a quick and sure death when a speaker does that. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
That the discovery of this great truth, which lies so near and obvious to the mind, should be attained to by the… — George Berkeley Copy Share Image
As crowds increase we build our forts of inattention, and the more we talk the easier it is to mean little and… — Frank Moore Colby Copy Share Image
Adolescents sometimes say..."My friends listen to me, but my parents only hear me talk." Often they are right. Familiarity breeds inattention. — Laurence Steinberg Copy Share Image
“Insecure people often falsify the past, in order to make the future pure.” — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
Holmes had cultivated the ability to still the noise of the mind, by smoking his pipe and playing nontunes on the violin.… — Laurie R. King Copy Share Image
Cultivate the habit of attention and try to gain opportunities to hear wise men and women talk. Indifference and inattention are the… — Robert Andrews Millikan Copy Share Image
the apathy and inattention of the average citizen is beyond comprehension. — Abigail McCarthy Copy Share Image
It is a happy art to know when one has said enough. I would leave my hearers wishing me to say more… — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
“My life is diminished for the absence of great things. Yet they are in reality not absent at all. Rather I am… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Once the horizon is narrowing and the countdown is ticking hastily, people may bring themselves to tear down the veil of inattention,… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
Reverie is commonly classified among the phenomena of psychic detente. It is lived out in a relaxed time which has no linking… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
The sane understand that human beings are incapable of sustaining conspiracies on a grand scale, because some of our most defining qualities… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
