Historical chronology, human or geological, depends... upon comparable impersonal principles. If one scribes with a stylus on a plate of wet clay… — M. King Hubbert Copy Share Image
A cook she certainly was, in the very bone and centre of her soul. Not a....turkey....in the barn-yard but looked grave when… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
Charges of cavalry are equally useful at the beginning, the middle and the end of a battle. They should be made always,… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
The difference between a simpleton and an intelligent man, according to the man who is convinced that he is of the latter… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A sharp difference should exist between general education and specialized knowledge. As particularly today the latter threatens more and more to sink… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Just as a man would not cherish living in a body other than his own, so do nations not like to live… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Society is divided into two classes: the shearers and the shorn. We should always be with the former against the latter. — Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Copy Share Image
A poor American feels guilty at being poor, but less guilty than an American rentier who has inherited wealth but is doing… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
The men in those old days of the seventeenth century, when in constant dread of attacks by Indians, always rose when the… — Alice Morse Earle Copy Share Image
The psychical condition of men's minds may be compared with a set of bells close together, and so arranged that in the… — Otto Weininger Copy Share Image
When the rider demands the piaffe, he has to halt the horse a few strides before the latter wants to stop of… — Nuno Oliveira Copy Share Image
In the aftermath of the recent wave action in the Indian Ocean, even the archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Rowan Williamson [sic], proved… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Even the most favorable outcome of the war will never lead to the decomposition of the main forces of Russia, which is… — Otto von Bismarck Copy Share Image
The realization that he is white in a black country, and respected for it, is the turning point in the expatriate's career.… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
Very broadly speaking, you can put directors into two areas: One for whom you work, and the other with whom you work.… — John Hurt Copy Share Image
DAY, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent. This period is divided into two parts, the day proper and the night,… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Ill-digested principles are, if anything, worse than ill-digested food, for the latter harms the body and there is cure for it, whereas… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I saw 'A Clockwork Orange' when I was 11. When you watch 'Clockwork Orange' at 11, it either totally scares you from… — Bill Hader Copy Share Image
An unchangeable colour rules over the melancholic: his dwelling is a space the colour of mourning. Nothing happens in it. No one… — Alejandra Pizarnik Copy Share Image
While the State becomes inflated and hypertrophied in order to obtain a firm enough grip upon individuals, but without succeeding, the latter,… — Emile Durkheim Copy Share Image
Theoretical physicists live in a classical world, looking out into a quantum-mechanical world. The latter we describe only subjectively, in terms of… — John Stewart Bell Copy Share Image
Art is magic... But how is it magic? In its metaphysical development? Or does some final transformation culminate in a magic reality?… — Hans Hofmann Copy Share Image
My latter schooldays and my university days were during the war, when science - physics, in particular - was a very important… — John Henry Carver Copy Share Image
Speech belongs half to the speaker, half to the listener. The latter must prepare to receive it according to the motion it… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Local esteem is far more conducive to happiness than general reputation. The latter may be compared to the fixed stars which glimmer… — William Benton Clulow Copy Share Image
