Every moment of mindfulness means the gradual destruction of latent defilements. It is somewhat like cutting away a piece of wood with… — Mahasi Sayadaw Copy Share Image
What a man can do and suffer is unknown to himself till some occasion presents itself which draws out the hidden power.… — Arthur Schopenhauer 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
Divinity reveals herself in all things. Everything has Divinity latent within itself. For she enfolds and imparts herself even unto the smallest… — Giordano Bruno Copy Share Image
Facts are the mere dross of history. It is from the abstract truth which interpenetrates them, and lies latent among them, like… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
It is a curve each of them feels, unmistakably. It is the parabola. They must have guessed, once or twice - guessed… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
But I think I see what these guys' problem is. You know... aside from the lack of a spine and the latent… — Sharon Cooper Copy Share Image
There are always signs that a reign is ending, and they are usually spotted not in the king himself but in his… — Hanna Rosin Copy Share Image
The service of India means the service of those teeming millions steeped in poverty, ignorance and disease. To see that in my… — Manmohan Singh 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
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
If we [Microsoft Corporation] weren't still hiring great people and pushing ahead at full speed, it would be easy to fall behind… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
The rhythmic pattern of the poem, which forces continuity of attention - incites a pleasurable compulsion to 'follow' - is either a… — Laura Riding 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
Life being all inclusion and confusion, and art being all discrimination and selection, the latter, in search of the hard latent value… — Henry James Copy Share Image
Photography, too, reduces the world to strips and rectangles; photographers scrutinize the surfaces of reality in hope of unlocking the potential for… — Frank Gohlke 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
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
You know, I'm a big comic book fan. As a kid I used to collect them until there was a horrible mudslide… — Tim Matheson 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
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
Silence and reserve suggest latent power. What some men think has more effect than what others say. — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
You may have seen people praying to an image as if it had special power. Perhaps they're wishing for the well-being of… — Shinjo Ito Copy Share Image
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