Nothing is more silly than the pleasure some people take in "speaking their minds." A man of this make will say a… — Richard Steele Copy Share Image
A recent government publication on the marketing of cabbage contains, according to one report, 26,941 words. It is noteworthy in this regard… — Norman Ralph Augustine Copy Share Image
Equality is deemed by many a mere speculative chimera, which can never be reduced to practice. But if the abuse is inevitable,… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
The ironic is a mere ancient whisper in this torqued narrative: its odd violence feels true. Today & Tomorrow crashes through the… — Stacey Levine Copy Share Image
These revelations expressed through Art work upon the soul with a force carrying its own conviction and permeate our sentient life with… — Richard Wagner Copy Share Image
Ah, the camel of Cairo! ... He went quietly and comfortably through the narrowest lanes and the densest crowds by the mere… — Sara Jeannette Duncan Copy Share Image
Trace Science, then, with Modesty thy guide, First strip off all her equipage of Pride, Deduct what is but Vanity or Dress,… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
At the end of the day, I think everybody takes for granted that they get up, get out of bed every morning… — Brock Lesnar Copy Share Image
Though the most beautiful creature were waiting for me at the end of a journey or a walk; though the carpet were… — John Keats Copy Share Image
The English did not come to America from a mere love of adventure, nor to truck with or convert the savages, nor… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The confusion between temperament and character has had serious consequences for ethical theory. Preferences with regard to differences in temperament are mere… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Mix salt and sand, and it shall puzzle the wisest of men, with his mere natural appliances, to separate all the grains… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Beauty of form affects the mind, but then it must be understood that it is not the mere shell that we admire;… — Jane Porter Copy Share Image
It is inconceivable to me that an ethical relation to land can exist without love, respect, and admiration for land, and a… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
An immortal soul, from its very nature, cannot find what it needs anywhere except in God Himself. True religion begins in the… — J.R. Miller Copy Share Image
Mountains inspire awe in any human person who has a soul. They remind us of our frailty, our unimportance, of the briefness… — Elizabeth Aston Copy Share Image
We may worship a picture as God, but not God as the picture. God in the picture is right, but the picture… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Madness is terrific I can assure you, and not to be sniffed at; and in its lava I still find most of… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
A woman questions the man who loves exactly as a judge questions a criminal. This being so, a flash of the eye,… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
... mortification is basic to the act of photographing. The person is mobile, ... then I freeze one moment in his movement,… — August Sander Copy Share Image
We may note in passing that He (Jesus) was never regarded as a mere moral teacher. He did not produce that effect… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
While we can learn or study techniques for almost anything we might want to accomplish, real understanding is not the mere accumulation… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Bostonians are really, as a race, far inferior in point of anything beyond mere intellect to any other set upon the… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
But the thing is, from the perspective of a novelist there is a brand of lying that feels more honest than the… — Ron Currie Jr Copy Share Image
A religion, that is, a true religion, must consist of ideas and facts both; not of ideas alone without facts, for then… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
As was the case in Requiem for a Dream, Pollock, A Beautiful Mind, House of Sand and Fog, The Hulk and Dark… — Joe Queenan Copy Share Image
I've always been afraid of video games - not afraid that I wouldn't like them, but that I would like them too… — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
The mere fact that my comments have caused such strong protests, although I'm not a European, and also the fact that I… — Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Copy Share Image
There is no need to worry about mere size. We do not necessarily respect a fat man more than a thin man.… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
It is not mere chance that makes families speak of a child who is 'extraordinary for his age' and also of an… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
The goal for many amputees is no longer to reach a 'natural' level of ability but to exceed it, using whatever cutting-edge… — Daniel H. Wilson Copy Share Image
Experience is a mere whiff or rumble, produced by enormously complex and ill-deciphered causes of experience; and in the other direction, experience… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
No State, upon it own mere motion, can lawfully get out of the Union. Resolves and ordinances to that effect are legally… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Whatever we read from intense curiosity gives us the model of how we should always read. Plodding along page after page with… — Ernest Dimnet Copy Share Image
The Lord didn't make Lehi a mere spectator, watching and learning from afar. Instead, the Lord taught his prophet by taking him… — John Bytheway Copy Share Image
A woman does not want the truth; what is truth to women? From the beginning, nothing has been more alien, repugnant, and… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The only real distinction at this dangerous moment in human history and cosmic development has nothing to do with medals and ribbons.… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
If one accepts Hezbollah's self-description as a resistance movement, in which case one must, in light of the fact that Hezbollah never… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
I confess I am at a loss to discover what temptation the persons entrusted with the administration of the general government could… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Know what makes a sentence more than a random list, practice constructing sentences and explaining what you have done, and you will… — Stanley Fish Copy Share Image