“Fortunately, most of our vital physiological functions are involuntary, as some amongst us would forget them.” — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
Liking an author may be as involuntary and improbable as falling in love. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Asked to explain how he became a war hero he (Kennedy) responded, "It was involuntary. They think my boat.” — Sally Bedell Smith Copy Share Image
All laughter is a muscular rigidity spasmodically relieved by involuntary twitching. — Robert Benchley Copy Share Image
In many cases hate a person is rooted in the involuntary estimate of its virtues. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
For me, nostalgia is an involuntary emotion. ... I think it's just a natural human response to loss. — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
Gentleness in the gait is what simplicity is in the dress. Violent gestures or quick movements inspire involuntary disrespect. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
The task of art today is to bring chaos into order. Artistic productivity is the capacity for being voluntarily involuntary. — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
Talent is the capacity of doing anything that depends on application and industry and it is a voluntary power, while genius is… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
How often our involuntary facial motions testify to the thoughts we were keeping secret, and betray us to those around! — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The organizations of men, like men themselves, seem subject to deafness, near-sightedness, lameness, and involuntary cruelty. We seem tragically unable to help… — John Cheever Copy Share Image
A scene should be selected by the writer for haunted-ness-of-mind interest. If you're not haunted by something, as by a dream, a… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
I wanted to know more about the young ... strange that though they laughed so loud, they so seldom smiled. Perhaps laughter… — Dodie Smith Copy Share Image
INTENTION, n. The mind's sense of the prevalence of one set of influences over another set; an effect whose cause is the… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
The luge is the only Olympic event where you could have people competing in it against their will, and it would look… — Jerry Seinfeld Copy Share Image
[Heraclitus had] the highest form of pride [stemming] from a certainty of belief in the truth as grasped by himself alone. He… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
It’s lovely,” I said, taking an involuntary half step back. “Really, though. I don’t like to handle other people’s cookware.” “That’s the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It was suicide, wasn't it?" "In an involuntary sort of way," said Vorob'yev. "These Cetagandan political suicides can get awfully messy, when… — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
Statutes that curtail her abortion choice are disturbingly suggestive of involuntary servitude, prohibited by the Thirteenth Amendment, in that forced pregnancy requires… — Dawn Johnsen Copy Share Image
Unemployment is 'involuntary' when the price is above its market clearing level. Workers are unemployed because jobs are not available at the… — Dale T. Mortensen Copy Share Image
The greatest evil of American slavery was not involuntary servitude but rather the narrative of racial differences we created to legitimate slavery.… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
The stillness of the calm is awful. His voice begins to grow strange and portentous. He feels it in him like something… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
To translate kinesics or paralinguistic messages into words is likely to introduce gross falsification due not merely to the human propensity for… — Greg Bear Copy Share Image
By deriving it's just powers from the governed, government becomes primarily a mechanism for defense against bodily harm, theft, and involuntary servitude.… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
A characteristic of those who are still progressing in blessed mourning is temperance and silence of the lips; and of those who… — John Climacus Copy Share Image
The person senses what it feels like to be free from inhibitions. At the same time he feels connected and integrated –… — Alexander Lowen Copy Share Image
What had survived - maybe all that had survived of Trism - was Liir's sense of him. A catalog of impressions that… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
By its attempt to regulate and govern the private businesses, which are miscalled public accommodations in the bill, this proposal would inject… — Strom Thurmond Copy Share Image
The text moves like a small crustacean with compound eye and complex nervous system; throbbing, involuted, it becomes a parasite on a… — Nicole Brossard Copy Share Image
The evidence here, as elsewhere, suggests that education is certainly relevant, but more because better education is associated with general differences in… — Mildred Blaxter Copy Share Image
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