Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
To allow only the kind of art that the average man understands is the worst small-mindedness and the murder of mind and… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
I don't practise indirect free-kicks, but the technique and how I strike the ball I practise a lot. — Steph Houghton Copy Share Image
Westlake is allusive, indirect, referential, a bit rococo, Stark strips his sentences down to the necessary information. — Donald E. Westlake Copy Share Image
You have to believe in a placebo or it wont work, but if it works, its obviously working in some indirect way,… — Charles Jencks Copy Share Image
The malignity that never forgets or forgives is found only in base and ignoble natures, whose aims are selfish, and whose means… — George Stillman Hillard Copy Share Image
The paraphrase of Gödel's Theorem says that for any record player, there are records which it cannot play because they will cause… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The division between the useful arts and the fine arts must not be understood in too absolute a manner. In the humblest… — Jacques Maritain Copy Share Image
The fisherman has a harmless, preoccupied look; he is a kind of vagrant, that nothing fears. He blends himself with the trees… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
The fossil record implies trial and error, an inability to anticipate the future, features inconsistent with an efficient Great Designer (although not… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
When you are looking for corruption, you should look at the entire stratum of the society, while some forms of corruption are… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
When you see someone dying in front of you from a direct and simple cause, it's easier to deal with [that] than… — John H Richardson Copy Share Image
The teacher’s first duty is to watch over the environment, and this takes precedence over all the rest. It’s influence is indirect,… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Very little mathematics has direct applications - though fortunately most of it has plenty of indirect ones. — Gian-Carlo Rota Copy Share Image
It has yet to be shown by direct biochemical methods, as opposed to the indirect genetic evidence mentioned earlier, that the code… — Francis Crick Copy Share Image
There are works of literature whose influence is strong but indirect because it is mediated through the whole of the culture rather… — J. M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
Most people are passive aggressive in this world. I have the idea that the human being is born with a kind of… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
Thirty-five states have Canada as their largest export market. Let's say we get into a trade war with the United States -… — Michael Kergin Copy Share Image
At the beginning of his administration, Reagan tried set the basis for American military intervention in El Salvador - which is about… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The theory of the indirect approach operates on the line of least expectation. — B. H. Liddell Hart Copy Share Image
Air forces offered the possibility of striking a the enemy's economic and moral centres without having first to achieve 'the destruction of… — B. H. Liddell Hart Copy Share Image
The chief benefit, which results from philosophy, arises in an indirect manner, and proceeds more from its secret, insensible influence, than from… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
The universe is asymmetric and I am persuaded that life, as it is known to us, is a direct result of the… — Louis Pasteur Copy Share Image
