Romance is a bird that will not sing in every bush, and love-affairs, however devoted the sentiments that inspire them, are often… — E. F. Benson Copy Share Image
The Holy Spirit is no skeptic. He has written neither doubt nor mere opinion into our hearts, but rather solid assurances, which… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Nature is not simply a technical or economical resource, and human beings are not mere numbers. To suggest that one can somehow… — James Buchan Copy Share Image
I'm an absolute connoisseur of cheeseburgers and like to think that I can detect even mere percentages of shift in fat content… — Alton Brown Copy Share Image
serene illumination, or just sitting, is not a technique, or a means to some resulting higher state of consciousness, or any particular… — John Daido Loori Copy Share Image
In this age, the mere example of non-conformity, the mere refusal to bend the knee to custom, is itself a service. Precisely… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
It seems to me, that the only Objects of the abstract Sciences or of Demonstration is Quantity and Number, and that all… — David Hume Copy Share Image
We live at the threshold of a universal recognition that the human being is not mere matter, but a potent, energetic field… — Michael Beckwith Copy Share Image
Our advanced art approaches a fragile but marvelous life, one that maintains itself by a mere thread, melting into an elusive, changeable… — Allan Kaprow Copy Share Image
Ordinary love is mere animal attraction. Otherwise why is the distinction between the sexes? If one kneels before an image, it is… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The word courage comes from the same stem as the French word Coeur, meaning "heart." Thus just as one's heart, by pumping… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
The alcoholic trance is not just a haze, as though the eyes were also unshaven. It is not a mere buzzing in… — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
The mere title of lawyer is sufficient to deprive a man of the public confidence. ... The most innocent and irreproachable life… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
At least 15 percent of human females possess a genetic mutation that gives them an extra (fourth) type of color photoreceptor -… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
The invasion of private rights is chiefly to be apprehended, not from acts of Government contrary to the sense of its constituents,… — James Madison Copy Share Image
A conscious decision to eliminate certain details and include selective bits of personal experiences or perceptual nuances, gives the painting more of… — Wayne Thiebaud Copy Share Image
These glorious things-words-are man's right alone...Without words we should know no more of each other's hearts and thoughts than the dog knows… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
That is the stimulus of nature; it is never, never old, and always developing. Even the scarred, wrinkled earth herself is a… — Mabel Osgood Wright Copy Share Image
We find in the history of ideas mutations which do not seem to correspond to any obvious need, and at first sight… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
Nature, of course, has its share in the life of the soul and in numerous manifestations deeply influences human life. But this… — Rudolf Christoph Eucken Copy Share Image
Men had better be without education than be educated by their rulers; for their education is but the mere breaking in of… — Thomas Hodgskin Copy Share Image
The once inviolate frame within which programs or commercials were displayed on television - always separately - has been violated to a… — Tom Shales Copy Share Image
Either Stone Age man was a technological wizard, who carefully removed his technological achievements so as not to upset his inferior progeny,… — Heinz von Foerster Copy Share Image
Dependent Origination is the teaching (that life) is not the mere play of blind chance, but has an existence that is dependent… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Perhaps the mere idea of receiving a nasty missive will allow animal researchers to empathize with their victims for the first time… — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
But you are alone. Yet I never tell what you are. And if your face lights up my world as no other… — Josiah Royce Copy Share Image
Alas, irreverence has been subsumed by mere grossness, at least in the so-called mass media. What we have now, to quote myself… — Tom Lehrer Copy Share Image
Say what some poets will, Nature is not so much her own ever-sweet interpreter, as the mere supplier of that cunning alphabet,… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Watergate got us to think of leaders as mere mortals. America began to think of itself in a very different way -… — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
Wherever the human mind is healthy and vigorous in all its proportions, great in imagination and emotion no less than in intellect,… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Give up all forms of parrotry. Start practicing whatever you truly feel to be true and justly to be just. Do not… — Meher Baba Copy Share Image
Is it really that much better to make friends with animals before you kill them than to treat them as nameless, faceless… — Sharon Gannon Copy Share Image
A saving knowledge of Christ crucified and risen is not the mere result of right reasoning about historical facts. It is the… — John Piper Copy Share Image
Proposition 19 already is a winner no matter what happens on election day. The mere fact of its being on the ballot… — George Soros Copy Share Image
If our inward griefs were written on our brows, how many who are envied now would be pitied. It would seem that… — Pietro Metastasio Copy Share Image
Today's child is growing up absurd, because he lives in two worlds, and neither of them inclines him to grow up. Growing… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Men famed for wit, of dangerous talents vain, Treat those of common parts with proud disdain; The powers that wisdom would, improving,… — George Crabbe Copy Share Image
The mere mechanical technique of acting can be taught, but the spirit that is to give life to lifeless forms must be… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
If your organization’s intentions transcend the mere act of selling a product or service, and it is brave enough to expose its… — Gary Vaynerchuk Copy Share Image
The edifice of science not only requires material, but also a plan. Without the material, the plan alone is but a castle… — Dmitri Mendeleev Copy Share Image
