It is necessary a writing critic should understand how to write. And though every writer is not bound to show himself in… — Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury Copy Share Image
As a kid, I knew I wanted to be either a cartoonist or an astronaut. The latter was never much of a… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
What does it mean to be a Saint? In the Lord's Church, the members are Latter-day Saints, and they attempt to emulate… — Quentin L. Cook Copy Share Image
One can promise actions, but not feelings, for the latter are involuntary. He who promises to love forever or hate forever or… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Bird taxonomy is a difficult field because of the severe anatomical constraints imposed by flight. There are only so many ways to… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
A poet is a combination of an instrument and a human being in one person, with the former gradually taking over the… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
Being in the latter stages of life means the morning is unkind to the reflection. It takes a few hours for the… — Jeremy Hardy Copy Share Image
There are only four great arts: music, painting, sculpture, and ornamental pastry- architecture being perhaps the least banal derivative of the latter. — Julia Child Copy Share Image
Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Intense, unexpected suffering passes more quickly than suffering that is apparently bearable; the latter goes on for years and, without our noticing,… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Mathematics is of two kinds, Rigorous and Physical. The former is Narrow: the latter Bold and Broad. To have to stop to… — Oliver Heaviside Copy Share Image
Latter-day Saints are not asked to blindly accept everything they hear. We are encouraged to think and discover truth for ourselves. We… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf Copy Share Image
We've been playing games since humanity had civilization - there is something primal about our desire and our ability to play games.… — Jane McGonigal Copy Share Image
There are in fact two things, science and opinion. The former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance. — Hippocrates Copy Share Image
There are female dandies as well as clothes-wearing men; and the former are as objectionable as the latter. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
There is no true Latter-day Saint who would not rather bury a son or a daughter than to have him or her… — Heber J. Grant Copy Share Image
The only thing more dangerous than ignorance is the pretense of intelligent ignorance. The former is teachable; the latter is not. — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
I never thought it was right to call up a man and try him because he erred in doctrine, it looks too… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
At first he who invented any art that went beyond the common perceptions of man was naturally admired by men, not only… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The rifle itself has no moral stature, since it has no will of its own. Naturally, it may be used by evil… — Jeff Cooper Copy Share Image
Infinities and indivisibles transcend our finite understanding, the former on account of their magnitude, the latter because of their smallness; Imagine what… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
Our duty as Latter-day Saints is to prepare ourselves, this earth, and its inhabitants for the Second Coming of the Lord Jesus… — Keith B. McMullin Copy Share Image
The difference between architecture and building is that the former expresses an idea, while the latter is merely a structure built on… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Worship leader George Beverly Shea kidded Billy Graham that the latter would be unemployed in Heaven -- while Shea would still have… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
I firmly believed we should not march into Baghdad ...To occupy Iraq would instantly shatter our coalition, turning the whole Arab world… — George H. W. Bush Copy Share Image
