It is an irrepressible conflict between opposing and enduring forces. — William H. Seward Copy Share Image
The critic's hankering to be law-giver rather than servant of literature is irrepressible. — Storm Jameson Copy Share Image
The appetite for power is old and irrepressible in humankind, and in its action almost always destructive. — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
The irrepressible conflict propounded by abolitionism has produced now its legitimate fruits - disunion. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In the dictionary of the seeker of truth there is no such thing as being "not successful." He is or should be… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Our family was on the lunatic fringe. My mother was always completely irrepressible. My father made crowd noises into a microphone. — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions It is classic because of a… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
I have an irrepressible desire to live till I can be assured that the world is a little better for my having… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
It has always been cited as an irrepressible symptom of America's vitality that her people, in fair times and foul, believe in… — Alistair Cooke Copy Share Image
I looked at it [revolver] as if it reminded me of a crime I had committed with an irrepressible smile such as… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
Because I'm moved in writing to be irrepressible. Writing to you seems like some holy cause, cause there's not enough female irrepressibility… — Chris Kraus Copy Share Image
There are some things in life that aren't meant to be controlled, and there are some things in life that simply cannot… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I would have been completely brainwashed by this lopsided and racist view of the world if it weren't for my father. He… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
The chief reason warfare is still with us is neither a secret death-wish of the human species, nor an irrepressible instinct of… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Our love is irrepressible, that's irresponsible, but irreproachable, because my heart is irretrievable. You're completely irresistable and forever irreplacable. Is this irrational?… — Liam Forrester Copy Share Image
[I] put the question directly to myself: "Suppose that all your objects in life were realized; that all the changes in institutions… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
At last, after almost fifty years in the hopper, the most famous unpublished novel in America is in print. Who Shot the… — Ed McClanahan Copy Share Image
Slowly he took out the clothes in which, ten years beforem Cosette had left Montfermeil; first the little dress, then the black… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
It is the omnipresent rush of water which give the Este Gardens their peculiar character. From the Anio, drawn up the hillside… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
What would you call America's most priceless asset? Surely not its limitless natural resources, not its matchless national wealth, not its unequalled… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
I would simply ask why so many critics, so many writers, so many philosophers take such satisfaction in professing that the experience… — Pierre Bourdieu Copy Share Image
Another potentiality of our irrepressible juvenility is a capacity to maintain until the onset of senility an active creative interaction with our… — Louise J. Kaplan Copy Share Image
What has not been clear is that the potential of this emergency-born technology has always accrued to human's prewar individual initiatives taken… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
No economic activity was more irrepressible [in the 14th century] than the investment and lending at interest of money; it was the… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
The idea that a baby doesn't amount to anything! Why, one baby is just a house and a front yard full by… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I have some irrepressible pop impulses to write an appealing, concise song. And I also have some irrepressible kind of restlessness as… — Andrew Bird Copy Share Image
A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions (of which its author had quite… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
You get some success. You run into some walls...it's how tenacious you are, how irrepressible, how ultimately optimistic and tenacious you are… — Steve Ballmer Copy Share Image
Teachers believe they have a gift for giving; it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a… — A. Bartlett Giamatti Copy Share Image
Don't listen to other people's advice unless it is rooted in irrepressible enthusiasm (e.g., "Be afraid but do it anyway"), or about… — Torill Kove Copy Share Image
The irrepressible spirit that made his playing seem like good conversation is the Rubinstein legacy for pianists, if they can pick up… — Donal Henahan Copy Share Image
man has an irrepressible tendency to read meaning into the buzzing confusion of sights and sounds impinging on his senses; and where… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
I heard so many stories from Gaomi's peasants that I had an irrepressible urge to write them down. Today, Gaomi's peasants know… — Mo Yan Copy Share Image
![“I looked at it [revolver] as if it reminded me of a crime I had committed with an irrepressible smile such as rises sometimes to people’s lips in the face of great catastrophes which are beyond their grasp, the smile that comes at times on certain women’s faces while they are saying they regret…” quote by Anais Nin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/4ce/anais-nin-288_catastrophe_i-looked-at-it-revolver-as-if-it-reminde_2054971.jpg)
![“[I] put the question directly to myself: "Suppose that all your objects in life were realized; that all the changes in institutions and opinions which you are looking forward to, could be completely effected at this very instant: would this be a great joy and happiness to you?" And an…” quote by John Stuart Mill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/464/john-stuart-mill-477_consciousness_i-put-the-question-directly-to-myself-su_1931447.jpg)
![“No economic activity was more irrepressible [in the 14th century] than the investment and lending at interest of money; it was the basis for the rise of the Western capitalist economy and the building of private fortunes-and it was based on the sin of usury.” quote by Barbara Tuchman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/5f4/barbara-tuchman-3945_activity_no-economic-activity-was-more-irrepressi_2007423.jpg)
