Reading is a stout-hearted activity, disporting courage, keenness, stick-to-it-ness. It is also, in my experience, one of the most thrilling and enduring… — Irving Stone Copy Share Image
Lay not the plummet to the line; religion hath no landmarks; no human keenness can discern the subtle shades of faith. — Martin Farquhar Tupper Copy Share Image
Man's value before God is estimated by the dispositions of his heart, its uprightness, its good will, its charity, and not by… — Anne Catherine Emmerich Copy Share Image
Alone-in moments of prayer or meditation, or simply in stillness-we breathe more deeply, see more fully, hear more keenly. We notice more,… — Katrina Kenison Copy Share Image
One of the things called forth by the Imagist movement in poetry was neatness; and when we say keenness, we mean neatness.… — Eli Siegel Copy Share Image
What moved us was not so much what would it do for South Africa, but there has been a great keenness on… — Thabo Mbeki Copy Share Image
The infinite wonders of the universe are revealed to us in exact measure as we are capable of receiving them. The keenness… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
“May your sleep be your death, and your wakefulness be your heaven.” — Anthony Liccione Copy Share Image
Liberty and order will never be perfectly safe, until a trespass on the constitutional provisions for either, shall be felt with the… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The exercise of voluntary attention in the schoolroom must therefore be counted one of the most important points of training that take… — William James Copy Share Image
Elrond raised his eyes and looked at him, and Frodo felt his heart pierced by the sudden keenness of the glance. 'If… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Reading is a stouthearted activity, disporting courage, keenness, stick-to-it-ness. — Irving Stone Copy Share Image
No metal can--no, not the hangman's axe--bear half the keenness of thy sharp envy. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Men like Henry George [ the pioneer of land value taxation] are rare, unfortunately. One cannot imagine a more beautiful combination of… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Nowadays, anyone who wishes to combat lies and ignorance and to write the truth must overcome at least five difficulties. He must… — Bertolt Brecht Copy Share Image
No one … can entirely step out of his time, that despite his keenness of vision his thinking is in many ways… — Karen Horney Copy Share Image
Horses are very keen on body language, and what I refer to as “presence”, and expression. They know quite a bit about… — Buck Brannaman Copy Share Image
“A man who offers to cook after he's seen you trying to freeze a dead dog has to be at least a… — Rosen Trevithick Copy Share Image
“Marriages can endure any difficulty with unfailing love and dedication.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
Love is frightened at the intervals of insensibility and callousness that encroach by little and little on the domain of grief, and… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Taste, if it mean anything but a paltry connoisseurship, must mean a general susceptibility to truth and nobleness, a sense to discern,… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
To my surprise, I felt a certain springy keenness. I was ready to hike. I had waited months for this day, after… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
We see with what keenness and zeal the frivolous business of Freemasons is conducted, by persons knit together by the secrecy of… — Adam Weishaupt Copy Share Image
I am sensible that my keenness of temper, and a vanity to be distinguished for the day, make me too often splash… — James Boswell Copy Share Image
