If there is something to permit the distinction between "solid" and "liquid" phases of modernity (that is, arranging them in an order… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
Of course what he most intensely dreams of is being taken out on walks, and the more you are able to indulge… — Henry James Copy Share Image
Just as a new scientific discovery manifests something that was already latent in the order of nature, and at the same time… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
Driven by a wish to save Tomás from a life of penury and misunderstanding, Fermin had decided that he needed to develop… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
When we hold a photo negative up to the light all objects are reversed. Black is white, white is black. Moreover, the… — Catherine Marshall Copy Share Image
I always get back to the question, is it really necessary that men should consume so much of their bodily and mental… — William Allingham Copy Share Image
If we have not struggled/as hard as we can/at our strongest/how will we sense/the shape of our losses/or know what sustains/us longest… — Kay Ryan Copy Share Image
No one knows what capacities for doing and suffering he has in himself, until something comes to rouse them to activity: just… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
It is scarcely possible that the eyes of contemporaries should discover in the public felicity the latent causes of decay and corruption.… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
The real long term objective of the Welfare Plan is the fulfilling of character in the members of the Church, givers and… — J. Reuben Clark Copy Share Image
The sunbeams are welcome now. They seem like pure electricity—like friendly and recuperating lightning. Are we led to think electricity abounds only… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
Science regards man as an aggregation of atoms temporarily united by a mysterious force called the life-principle. To the materialist the only… — H. P. Blavatsky Copy Share Image
I have faith that if we caught hold of God's living candle on that truth and went out into the world-I don't… — Truman G. Madsen Copy Share Image
I bailed out on social media for a while, and in short order I found I was able to sit down and… — Ron Currie Jr Copy Share Image
Human nature itself is evermore an advocate for liberty. There is also in human nature a resentment of injury, and indignation against… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Education has two aspects; the first is related to external and worldly education, which is nothing but acquiring bookish knowledge. In the… — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
You have to be aware of all the latent possibilities that give a work its special character - its atmosphere, its moods,… — Alfred Brendel Copy Share Image
In our view, derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction carrying dangers that, while latent, are potentially lethal. — Warren Buffett 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
Opportunities? They are all around us ... There is power lying latent everywhere waiting for the observant eye to discover it. — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
My mother took me to a psychiatrist when I was fifteen because she thought I was a latent homosexual. There was nothing… — Amanda Bearse Copy Share Image
Whether dark presages of the night proceed from any latent power of the soul during her abstraction, or from any operation of… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
If you say to someone who has ears to hear: "What you are doing to me is not just," you may touch… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
When the children had completed an absorbing bit of work, they appeared rested and deeply pleased. It almost seemed as if a… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Dark times have come, but in spite of this we have not yet reached a twilight of the gods and even today… — Guido von List Copy Share Image
Life has, indeed, many ills, but the mind that views every object in its most cheering aspect, and every doubtful dispensation as… — Lydia Sigourney Copy Share Image
Enthusiasm is the dynamics of your personality. Without it, whatever abilities you may possess lie dormant; and it is safe to say… — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
The greatest field of photography, for the literary interpretation of life, consists, to my mind, in its latent power to create, as… — Pierre Mac Orlan Copy Share Image
Opportunity is latent in the very foundation of human society. Opportunity is everywhere about us. But the preparation to seize upon the… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
Over the centuries, and even today, the Bible and Christian theology have helped justify the Crusades, slavery, violence against gays, and the… — Amy Waldman Copy Share Image
He said you were on the scene when that Laurel Canyon homicide went down.” “I’m lucky that way,” I said. “So are… — Josh Lanyon Copy Share Image
Latent in every man is a venom of amazing bitterness, a black resentment; something that curses and loathes life, a feeling of… — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
Our universe cannot even be stated symbolically. And this touches us all more directly than one might suppose. For example, artists, who… — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
The power of one is above all things the power to believe in yourself, ofen well beyond any latent ability you may… — Bryce Courtenay Copy Share Image
Heroism is latent in every human soul - However humble or unknown, they (the veterans) have renounced what are accounted pleasures and… — Joshua Chamberlain Copy Share Image
A curious mind does not say to consumers "What do you want?" A curious mind understands context, understands behavior, understands spending and… — Michael J. Silverstein Copy Share Image
I think that the roots of racism have always been economic, and I think people are desperate and scared. And when you're… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
I wonder, whether, if I had had any education I should have been more, or less, of a fool than I am.… — Alice James Copy Share Image