To put labour and wages first and human ordomestic life second is to invert the order of God and of nature. — Henry Edward Manning Copy Share Image
The difference is as great between The optics seeing as the objects seen. All manners take a tincture from our own; Or… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Faulty execution of a winning combination has lost many a game on the very brink of victory. In such cases a player… — Fred Reinfeld Copy Share Image
Inside the snow globe on my father's desk, there was a penguin wearing a red-and-white-striped scarf. When I was little my father… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
In actual fact. The manifold sexualities - those which appear with the different ages (sexualities of the infant or the child), those… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
How many young men, in all previous times of unprecedented steadiness, had turned suddenly wild and wicked for the same reason, and,… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
That rewriting of literary history is most obvious in the case of The Yage Letters, where I was able to show that… — Oliver Harris Copy Share Image
One can say that the author is an ideological product, since we represent him as the opposite of his historically real function.… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
Private victories precede public victories. You can't invert that process any more than you can harvest a crop before you plant it. — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
“Mme Verdurin asked him: "Did you have some of my orangeade?" Whereupon M. de Charlus, with a gracious smile, in a crystalline… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
That reality is 'independent' means that there is something in every experience that escapes our arbitrary control. If it be a sensible… — William James Copy Share Image
I am a dreamer of words, of written words. I think I am reading; a word stops me. I leave the page.… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
I'm not saying that advertising is going away. But the balance is shifting. If today the successful recipe is to put 70… — Jeff Bezos Copy Share Image
Give not thyself up, then, to fire, lest it invert thee, deaden thee, as for the time it did me. There is… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
You don't need to justify your rights as a citizen - that inverts the model of responsibility. The government must justify its… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
Howard Altmann has found a way to make language transform itself. If the elusive moment between I and Thou could speak, it… — Dennis Nurkse Copy Share Image
“But for the invert vice begins, not when he establishes a relationship (for too many reasons may govern that), but when he… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
In the old world, you devoted 30% of your time to building a great service and 70% of your time to shouting… — Jeff Bezos Copy Share Image
There can be only two questions that are asked with regard to human relationships: Where am I going? Who is going with… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
A revolution cannot progress without the fuel of terror. With time that relationship inverts: the revolution presses forward for the sake of… — Young-Ha Kim Copy Share Image
Everyone knew that if you divided reality by expectation, you got a happiness quotient. But when you invert the equation - expectation… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
A book is a product of a pact with the Devil that inverts the Faustian contract, he'd told Allie. Dr Faustus sacrificed… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
