There is a close relationship between flowers and convicts. The fragility and delicacy of the former are of the same nature as… — Jean Genet Copy Share Image
There is a way by which persons can keep their consciences clear before God and man, and that is to preserve within… — Lorenzo Snow Copy Share Image
A love of the republic in a democracy is a love of the democracy, as the latter is that of equality. A… — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
Science is nothing but trained and organized common sense differing from the latter only as a veteran may differ from a raw… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
There is a calamitous difference between a people who have been immersed in paganism for centuries and a post-Christian society. While the… — Edmund Clowney Copy Share Image
It reveals to me the causes of many natural phenomena that are entirely incomprehensible in the light of the generally accepted hypotheses.… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
. . . women were brought up to have only one set of manners. A woman was either a lady or she… — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
The misunderstanding of passion and reason, as if the latter were an independent entity and not rather a system of relations between… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Something of great importance now past is inferior to something of little importance now present, in that the latter is a reality,… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
What a thing is and what it means are not separate, the former being physical and the latter mental as we are… — James J. Gibson Copy Share Image
It is for the latter that I always wanted to be an actor: to play characters who are always on the move. — Tony Curtis Copy Share Image
So death, the most terrifying of ills, is nothing to us, since so long as we exist, death is not with us;… — Epicurus Copy Share Image
Junipers are generally chosen for the latter purpose, as they can be more readily bent into the desired form; the eyes and… — Robert Fortune Copy Share Image
Society can take two roads - the road to genuine prosperity, or the road to artificial stimulus. The first results in a… — Mark Skousen Copy Share Image
The origin of all civil government, justly established, must be a voluntary compact, between the rulers and the ruled; and must be… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Sometimes I do work on a longer manuscript in tandem with one or two shorter pieces - whether it's a short story… — Christine Sneed Copy Share Image
But Geology carries the day: it is like the pleasure of gambling, speculating, on first arriving, what the rocks may be; I… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Astronomers still can't decide what the shape of our universe is. Is it closed and finite, which is to say, is there… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
Basic atheism is not a belief. It is the lack of belief. There is a difference between believing there is no god… — Dan Barker Copy Share Image
There are people one knows and people one doesn't. One shouldn't cheapen the former by feigning intimacy with the latter. — Tony Horwitz Copy Share Image
Electrical matter differs from common matter in this, that the parts of the latter mutually attract, those of the former mutually repel… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Kiddies, Graphic Design, if you wield it effectively, is Power. Power to transmit ideas that change everything. Power that can destroy an… — Chip Kidd Copy Share Image
If you read only the best, you will have no need of reading the other books, because the latter are nothing but… — Anna Brackett Copy Share Image
We cannot have two hearts, one for the animals and one for men. In cruelty towards the former and cruelty to the… — Alphonse de Lamartine Copy Share Image