Independently of its misdeeds, the mere power, - the bare existence of such a power, - is a thing irreconcilable with the… — Nicholas Trist Copy Share Image
Life to the great majority is only a constant struggle for mere existence, with the certainty of losing it at last. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
I've never really played everyday people. I've played realist roles, but not mere daily life. There was always something incredible happening to… — Sandrine Bonnaire Copy Share Image
Shares are not mere pieces of paper. They represent part ownership of a business. So, when contemplating an investment, think like a… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Art is mind and heart and touch as much and more than it is mere instrument, technique - without which however it… — Bernard Berenson Copy Share Image
The mere possession of a gun is, in itself, an urge to kill, not only by design, but by accident, by madness,… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
'Band on the Run' is a carefully composed, intricately designed personal statement that will make it impossible for anyone to classify Paul… — Jon Landau Copy Share Image
When the imagination is continually led to the brink of vice by a system of terror and denunciations, people fling themselves over… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Only in the problem play is there any real drama, because drama is no mere setting up of the camera to nature:… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
A father is the one friend upon whom we can always rely. In the hour of need, when all else fails, we… — Emile Gaboriau Copy Share Image
Civilization, stretching up to recognize that every child is a portion of State wealth, may presently make some movement to recognize maternity… — Miles Franklin Copy Share Image
Bless people when they revile you. Think how much good they are doing by helping to stamp out the false ego. Hold… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
In many cultures it is customary to answer that God created the universe out of nothing. But this is mere temporizing. If… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Whatever offices of life are performed by women of culture and refinement are thenceforth elevated; they cease to be mere servile toils,… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
“The ultimate evil is the weakness, cowardice, that is one of the constituents of so much human nature. When, rarely, unalloyed nobility… — John Simon Copy Share Image
The early Stones were adolescent rockers. They were self-conscious in an obvious and unpretentious way. And they were committed to a musical… — Jon Landau Copy Share Image
It would be impossible to accept naturalism itself if we really and consistently believed naturalism. For naturalism is a system of thought.… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
And this exclusion of "women's work" continues, despite United Nations data gathered since 1975 (the beginning of the UN Decade for Women)… — Riane Eisler Copy Share Image
A visit to New Hampshire supplies the most resources to a traveler, and confers the most benefit on the mind and taste,… — Thomas Starr King Copy Share Image
The Society is based on that great bottom law of human right, that nothing but crime can forfeit liberty. That no condition… — Theodore Dwight Weld Copy Share Image
I fully agree with you about the significance and educational value of as well as history and philosophy of science. So many… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Faith is from within; it is the outbreaking of human spontaneity; it is force of soul, grandeur of sentiment, magnanimity, generosity, courage.… — William Batchelder Greene Copy Share Image
Our world does not exist from its own side--like a dream world, it is a mere appearance to our mind. In dreams… — Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Copy Share Image
I am interested only in the relations of a people to the rearing of the individual man, and among the Greeks the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Parents are flawed human beings who are given a role that more approximates that of God than of mere mortals. — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
A mere copier of nature can never produce any thing great, can never raise and enlarge the conceptions, or warm the heart… — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share Image
Any religion is forever in danger of petrifaction into mere ritual and habit, though ritual and habit be essential to religion. — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
Human relationships are rich and they're messy and they're demanding. And we clean them up with technology. We sacrifice conversation for mere… — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
Could the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their… — William James Copy Share Image
Concepts differentiate architecture from mere building...A bicycle shed with a concept is architecture; a cathedral without one is just a building. — Bernard Tschumi Copy Share Image
All of us alive today are or can be its prey, most of all the person who believes he is creating works… — Gillo Dorfles Copy Share Image
Some literary types subscribe to the notion that being a writer like Salinger entitles a person to remain free of the standards… — Joyce Maynard Copy Share Image
Everybody knows that England is the world of betting men, who are of a higher class than mere gamblers: to bet is… — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
Often the soul is ripened into fuller goodness while age has spread an ugly film, so that mere glances can never divine… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
No real blood flows in the veins of the knowing subject constructed by Locke, Hume, and Kant, but rather the diluted extract… — Wilhelm Dilthey Copy Share Image
Research ! A mere excuse for idleness; it has never achieved, and will never achieve any results of the slightest value. — Benjamin Jowett Copy Share Image
Until we perceive the meaning of our past, we remain the mere carriers of ideas, like the Nomads. — Stephen Gardiner Copy Share Image
Truly smart technologies will remind us that we are not mere automatons who assist big data in asking and answering questions. — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
Mere humans who root through their refrigerators at three o'clock in the morning can only produce writing that matches what they do.… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The man of great wealth owes a peculiar obligation to the state because he derives special advantages from the mere existence of… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image