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
I didn't grow up with my mother, and so losing her for real was like, some sort of latent childhood, some sort… — Billy Corgan 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
The worrying thing is there's so much latent hatred of the guy [Donald Trump] and this guy isn't even president yet. — Sacha Baron Cohen 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
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
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
... I had a latent impression that there was something decidedly fine in Mr. Wopsle's elocution - not for old associations' sake,… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
She would only point out the salvation that was latent in his own soul, and in the soul of every man. Only… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
The 1994 elections that brought Newt Gingrich to power in the House decisively shaped the remaining years of Bill Clinton's presidency, pushing… — Noah Feldman 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
A thought is truly sought only if it has got, in latent or potent form, the strength of 'WE' which sounds as… — Anuj 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
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
Every person has the latent ability to read minds and influence the physical world without touching it, but they don't have the… — Maria V. Snyder Copy Share Image
At the time, acid made me consider questions of reality, the difference, as someone said, between words and silence. It also brought… — Robert Stone Copy Share Image
There is evil in every human heart, which may remain latent, perhaps, through the whole of life; but circumstances may rouse it… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
The latent causes of faction are thus sown in the nature of man; and we see them everywhere brought into different degrees… — James Madison Copy Share Image
It’s often said that those who are unduly bothered by gays are latent homosexuals. Isn’t it possible that people obsessed with racism… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
Those traits that pass into hybrid association entirely or almost entirely unchanged, thus themselves representing the traits of the hybrid, are termed… — Gregor Mendel Copy Share Image
Esoteric science premises the existence of the Great Unmanifest, which may be conceived as a sea of limitless but latent force which… — Dion Fortune Copy Share Image
It is less mortifying to believe one's self unpopular than insignificant, and vanity prefers to assume that indifference is a latent form… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
The only way to change American society, and indeed I think this is true of other societies as well, is for people… — Frances Fox Piven Copy Share Image
Once you tie anger and ego together then you're a monster, at least a latent one. So you have to be able… — Bruce Cockburn Copy Share Image
In dreams, through longings, we can see— All latent in the dust of gold These forests that perhaps could be— But that… — Lucian Blaga Copy Share Image
I use images as signifiers that point to layers of history, lost communities or a latent collective whispering within a certain context. — Shimon Attie Copy Share Image
I must dedicate my life to teaching my people, for only education would make their lot less bitter, their latent power more… — Y. C. James Yen Copy Share Image
Tattooed men who are not behind bars are either latent criminals or degenerate aristocrats. If someone who is tattooed dies in freedom,… — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
Latent genius is but a presumption. Everything that can be, is bound to come into being, and what never comes into being… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
It was a surprise to me and a happy accident that it was such a skill [natural falsetto] - a latent skill… — John Lloyd Young Copy Share Image
There is no estimating the wit and wisdom concealed and latent in our lower fellow mortals until made manifest by profound experiences;… — John Muir Copy Share Image
Hitler's oratory moved people and appealed to their hopes and dreams. But his speeches malevolently twisted hope into some gnarled ghastly entities,… — Richard M Perloff Copy Share Image
Dudes," He said, "Do not follow other dudes to the bathroom." Isabelle sighed. "Latent homosexual panic will do you in every time — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Every natural form is latent within us, originates in the soul whose essence is eternity, whose essence we cannot know but which… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Development does not start with goods; it starts with people and their education, organization, and discipline. Without these three, all resources remain… — E. F. Schumacher Copy Share Image
A day will come when beings, now latent in our thoughts and hidden in our loins, shall stand upon Earth as a… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image