Vermeer's woman reading a letter is as full of latent or subliminal kitsch as Tolstoy's War and Peace. — John Bayley Copy Share Image
There is a kind of latent omniscience, not only in every man, but in every particle. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
What a fool cannot learn he laughs at, thinking that by his laughter he shows superiority instead of latent idiocy. — Marie Corelli Copy Share Image
Once I began to consider everything as being of potential interest, objects released latent layers of value. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
The probity that scintillizes in the superfices of your persons informs my ratiocinating faculty, in a most stupendous manner, of the radiant… — Francois Rabelais Copy Share Image
One of the greatest of a great man's qualities is success; 't is the result of all the others; 't is a… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
Nature does nothing in vain. Therefore, it is imperative for persons to act in accordance with their nature and develop their latent… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The spiritual thirst that is latent in everybody can never come to a place of fulfillment unless people begin to think of… — Malidoma Patrice Some Copy Share Image
Philosophy alone can boast (and perhaps it is no more than the boast of philosophy), that her gentle hand is able to… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Talented performers flock to the best and brightest leaders, and these leaders in turn lift the lids off their people and uncork… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
A man without passion is only a latent force, only a possibility, like a stone waiting for the blow from the iron… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
But sometimes the future is latent in us without our knowing it, and our supposedly lying words foreshadow an imminent reality. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Who knows whether, if I had given up smoking, I should really have become the strong perfect man I imagined? Perhaps it… — Italo Svevo Copy Share Image
In history an additional result is commonly produced by human actions beyond that which they aim at and obtain -- that which… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
That's because only a real artist knows the actual anatomy of the terrible or the physiology of fear - the exact sort… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I was the captain of the latent paranoid softball team. We used to play all the neurotics on sunday morning. Nailbiters against… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
In the Indian film industry, especially those of us who are in mainstream cinema, we invariably play a typical hero's role. More… — Abhishek Bachchan Copy Share Image
White folks, no matter how well-meaning or open-minded, have no true idea what it's like to be black in America. That's not… — John Ridley Copy Share Image
The Marxist critique is only a critique of capital, a critique coming from the heart of the middle and petit bourgeois classes,… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
I see the President almost every day. I see very plainly Abraham Lincoln's dark brown face with its deep-cut lines, the eyes… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
The copy of an ad is merely a punning gag to distract the critical faculties while the image of the product goes… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Taking the continent as a whole, this religious tension may be responsible for the revival of the commonest racial feeling. Africa is… — Frantz Fanon Copy Share Image
Within the Arab circle there is a role wandering aimlessly in search of a hero. For some reason it seems to me… — Gamal Abdel Nasser Copy Share Image
Without constraint, without any form of mental compulsion, the act of belief becomes the freest possible projection of what resides in our… — Terryl L. Givens Copy Share Image
Futurism and Cubism are comparable in importance to the invention of perspective, for which they substituted a new concept of space. All… — Gino Severini Copy Share Image
The power of the Plus Factor is potential but it is not self-activating. It is latent in human beings and will remain… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
The progress of dynamic ideals will not be eternally blocked. Through general, moral and intellectual advancement... shall the latent aspiration of justice… — Abraham Isaac Kook Copy Share Image
Good is latent in every living thing and simply needs to be called into active expression through the gracious application of respect,… — J. Boone Copy Share Image
I firmly believe that we have more latent musical talent in America than there is in any other country. But to dig… — John Philip Sousa Copy Share Image
Does not the latent feeling that much of their striving is to no purpose tend to infuse large quantities of sham into… — William Allingham Copy Share Image
Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
Mental activity in the daytime creates a latent form of habitual thought which again transforms itself at night into various delusory visions… — Milarepa Copy Share Image
Men are as we have always known them, neither better nor worse from the hearts of rogues there springs a latent honesty,… — Federica Montseny Copy Share Image
The vital straining towards an ideal, definite but latent, when it dominates a whole life, may express that ideal more fully than… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
No matter what his position or experience in life, there is in everyone more latent than developed ability; far more unused than… — James Cash Penney Copy Share Image
Speak your latent conviction. . . Else tomorrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely what we have thought and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There's always a latent or inferred image in my writing. And I can almost always assume if I do a drawing that… — Raymond Pettibon Copy Share Image
What we call doubt is often simply dullness of mind and spirit, not the absence of faith at all, but faith latent… — Christian Wiman Copy Share Image
There sometimes wants only a stroke of fortune to discover numberless latent good or bad qualities, which would otherwise have been eternally… — Greville Janner, Baron Janner of Braunstone Copy Share Image
London doesn't love the latent or the lurking, has neither time, nor taste, nor sense for anything less discernible than the red… — Henry James Copy Share Image
