The irrepressible conflict propounded by abolitionism has produced now its legitimate fruits - disunion. — Anonymous 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
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
At last, after almost fifty years in the hopper, the most famous unpublished novel in America is in print.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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
The critic's hankering to be law-giver rather than servant of literature is irrepressible. — Storm Jameson Copy Share Image
It is an irrepressible conflict between opposing and enduring forces. — William H. Seward 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
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
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
[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
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
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