The Dance of the Future will have to become again a high religious art as it was with the Greeks. For art… — Isadora Duncan Copy Share Image
Whereas scoundrels become reconciled after knifing one another, lovers break up irrevocably over a mere glance or word. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Christianity thinks of human individuals not as mere members of a group or items in a list, but as organs in a… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Mere wealth, I am above it, / It is the reputation wide, / The playwright's pomp, the poet's pride / That eagerly I covet. — Phyllis McGinley Copy Share Image
It is good sense applied with diligence to what was at first a mere accident, and which by great application grew to… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The difference between psychedelia and digitalia ages will seem like a smooth blending in years to come and will be a mere… — Edward Ruscha Copy Share Image
The anger of slow, mild, loving people has a lasting quality that mere bad-tempered folk cannot understand. — Margaret Deland Copy Share Image
The thing that moves us to pride or shame is not the mere mechanical reflection of ourselves but the imagined effect of… — Charles Horton Cooley Copy Share Image
It is surely no mere coincidence that the land of the emancipated and enthroned woman is also the land of canned soup,… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
By mere burial man arrives not at bliss; and in the future life, throughout its whole infinite range, they will seek for… — Johann Gottlieb Fichte Copy Share Image
Effectively, it makes the greasepaint permanent, blurring the lines not only between public and private but also between the authentic and contrived… — Peggy Orenstein Copy Share Image
All art that is not mere storytelling, or mere portraiture, is symbolic, and has the purpose of those symbolic talismans which medieval… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
We think of religion as the symbolic expression of our highest moral ideals; we think of magic as a crude aggregate of… — Ernst Cassirer Copy Share Image
What chiefly distinguishes the daily press is its incurable fear of ideas, its constant effort to evade the discussion of fundamentals by… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Hitler was no inexorable product of a German 'special path', no logical culmination of long-term trends in specifically German culture and ideology.… — Ian Kershaw Copy Share Image
The gospel does not prompt you to mere reflection; the gospel requires a response. In the process of hearing Jesus, you are… — David Platt Copy Share Image
the public sphere is as consistently based on the law of equality as the private sphere is based on the law of… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
There are many ways to cover up our sin. We may justify or minimize it by blaming circumstances and others people. However,… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
Without general elections, without unrestricted freedom of press and assembly, without a free struggle of opinion, life dies out in every public… — Rosa Luxemburg Copy Share Image
Tea ceremony is a way of worshipping the beautiful and the simple. All one's efforts are concentrated on trying to achieve perfection… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Love is an alchemist that can transmute poison into food--and a spaniel, that prefers even punishment from one hand to caresses from… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Your national greatness, swelling vanity; your denunciation of tyrants, brass-fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
These are no ordinary claims; and it seems hardly possible for a rational being to regard them with even a subdued interest;… — Simon Greenleaf Copy Share Image
One man in one mood will attack Industrial Capitalism for its destruction of beauty; another for its incompetence; another for the vileness… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
Writing is a mode of agency in the world that is different from mere employment. There has to be some sort of… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
I think that the mere fact that I'm doing it ought to inspire someone. In junior high school the counselor suggested that… — Christopher Darden Copy Share Image
A learned person will become noble only when he or she has put into real practice what has been learned, instead of… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Science, math and engineering can give you the exhilarating power to become not mere spectators or consumers, but the active explorers, makers… — Susan Hockfield Copy Share Image
Models now need to promote themselves, think like business women and diversify their careers by doing other things. Chances are very slim… — Tyra Banks Copy Share Image
The literary gift is a mere accident - is as often bestowed on idiots who have nothing to say worth hearing as… — Max Beerbohm Copy Share Image
Some handsome and ambitious men believe they are above all morality, and a woman's virtue becomes a mere challenge to them. — William Safire Copy Share Image
The only impregnable citadel of virtue is religion; for there is no bulwark of mere morality, which some temptation may not overtop… — Jane Porter Copy Share Image
Pain warns us not to exert our limbs to the point of breaking them. How much knowledge would we not need to… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Pulling a crystalline, cogent rule out of the murk of the court's First Amendment, public forum, and Establishment Clause doctrine is an… — Dahlia Lithwick Copy Share Image
New situations inspire new thoughts. Here is the benefit of travelling, much more than in mere sight-seeing. We lose ourselves in the… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
What labor and pains worldlings take to obtain the vain things of this life-to obtain the poor things of this world, which… — Thomas Brooks Copy Share Image
Those dreams that on the silent night intrude, and with false flitting shapes our minds delude ... are mere productions of the… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Imagination in poetry, as distinguished from mere fancy is the transfiguring of the real or actual to the ideal. — Alfred Austin Copy Share Image
Laws ... proportionate and mild should never be dispensed with. Let mercy be the character of the law-giver, but let the judge… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
A mere chronicle of observed events will produce only journalism; combined with a sensitive memory, it can produce art. — Hallie Burnett Copy Share Image
