I have always taken care to put an idea or emotion behind my words. I have made it a habit to be… — Leopold Sedar Senghor Copy Share Image
Miracles happen. But prayer is needed! Prayer that is courageous, struggling and persevering, not prayer that is a mere formality. — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
It is a paradox of Life that all species breed past mere replacement. Any paradise of plenty soon fills to become paradise… — David Brin Copy Share Image
Mere literary talent is common; what is rare is endurance, the continuing desire to work hard at writing. — Donald Hall Copy Share Image
But we may go further, and affirm most truly, that it is a mere and miserable solitude to want true friends; without… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
The metaphysical insanities of Athanasius, of Loyola, and of Calvin, are, to my understanding, mere lapses into polytheism, differing from paganism only… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Consciousness is the mere surface of our minds, of which, as of the earth, we do not know the inside, but only… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
The right to rebellion is the right to seek a higher rule, and not to wander in mere lawlessness. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The tendency of philosophers who know nothing of machinery is to talk of man as a mere mechanism, intending by this to… — Arthur Young Copy Share Image
Nothing makes me feel better - calmer, clearer and happier - than being in one place, absorbed in a book, a conversation,… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
To a dog, motoring isn't just a way of getting from here to there, it's also a thrill and an adventure. The… — Jon Winokur Copy Share Image
The materialistic idealism that governs American life, that on the one hand makes a chariot of every grocery wagon, and on the… — Louis Kronenberger Copy Share Image
For truly in nature there are many operations that are far more than mechanical. Nature is not simply an organic body like… — Anne Conway, Viscountess Conway Copy Share Image
Beauty does not lie in the face. It lies in the harmony between a person and his or her industry. Beauty is… — Jean-Francois Millet Copy Share Image
The star is the ultimate American verification of Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Emile. His mere existence proves the perfectability of any man or woman.… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
These wonderful narrations inspired me with strange feelings. Was man, indeed, at once so powerful, so virtuous, and magnificent, yet so vicious… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Copy Share Image
Some days the mere fact of seeing feels like perfect happiness... You feel so rich you long to share your jubilation with… — Robert Doisneau Copy Share Image
Where philosophy ends, poetry must commence. There should not be a common point of view, a natural manner of thinking which standsin… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
Though beauty is, with the most apt similitude, I had almost said with the most literal truth, called a flower that fades… — Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke Copy Share Image
My chief time for reading is at night while brushing my hair before I go to bed, and as you may suppose,… — Fanny Kemble Copy Share Image
How infinitely happier and more grateful is the whole personality or spirit when it finds something nourishing in art or writing or… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
If love is the soul of Christian existence, it must be at the heart of every other Christian virtue. Thus, for example,… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
Over the past eighteen years I have acted as a scientific consultant to the U.S. Air Force on the subject of unidentified… — J. Allen Hynek Copy Share Image
It is only in times of social dissolution, as in the last age of the small Semitic states, when men and their… — William Robertson Smith Copy Share Image
Sobriety diminishes, discriminates, and says no; drunkenness expands, unites, and says yes. Not through mere perversity do men run after it. — William James Copy Share Image
All compromise is based on give and take, but there can be no give and take on fundamentals. Any compromise on mere… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Surely no mere mortal who has at all gone down into himself will ever pretend that his slightest thought or act solely… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
The peace we seek and need means much more than mere absence of war. It means the acceptance of law, and the… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
Those who preached faith, or in other words a pure mind, have always produced more popular virtue than those who preached good… — James Mackintosh Copy Share Image
We're not mere spectators, or a cosmic accident, or some sideshow, or the Greek chorus to the main event. The human experience… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
My master's visualizations were so powerful their condensation into matter was mere signature. Donald Walters, formerly Kriyananda, author of The Path about… — Goswami Kriyananda Copy Share Image
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, the blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere the ceremony of innocence is drowned. — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
The cross is not a mere event in history; it's a way of life! Take up your cross DAILY, Jesus said! — John Piper Copy Share Image
No state, upon its own mere motion, can lawfully get out of the Union. Plainly, the central idea of secession, is the… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Man, a mere inhabitant of the earth, cannot overstep its boundaries! But though he is confined to its crust, he may penetrate… — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
One of the most obvious results of having a baby around the house is to turn two good people into complete idiots… — Georges Courteline Copy Share Image
It is not the mere station of life that stamps the value on us, but the manner in which we act our… — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
Facts, according to my ideas, are merely the elements of truths, and not the truths themselves; of all matters there are none… — Henry Mayhew Copy Share Image
There's a historical milestone in the fact that our Apollo 11 landing on the moon took place a mere 66 years after… — Buzz Aldrin Copy Share Image
In morals, truth is but little prized when it is a mere sentiment, and only attains its full value when realized in… — Ernest Renan Copy Share Image
