The memory, experiencing and re-experiencing, has such power over one's mere personal life, that one has merely lived. — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
Maybe this is a utopian view of art but I do believe that art can function as a vehicle, that it isn't… — Antony Gormley Copy Share Image
A mere index hunter, who held the eel of science by the tail. Index-hunter is a term used mockingly, meaning one who… — Tobias Smollett 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
Criticism is a study by which men grow important and formidable at very small expense. The power of invention has been conferred… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Ever heard of anyone executed for distributing copies of Grimm's fairy tales? Imagine people trying to smuggle copies of Hans Christian Andersen's… — Eric Metaxas Copy Share Image
We must be careful that the business we build does not become mere busyness. — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Psychedelic drugs undoubtedly open the doors to the mind's panopticon, but what we see in the mental mirrors are mere distortions of… — Georg Feuerstein 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
As poverty has been reduced in terms of mere survival, it has become more profound in terms of our way of life. — Raoul Vaneigem Copy Share Image
Repentance must be something more than mere remorse for sins: it comprehends a change of nature befitting heaven. — Lew Wallace Copy Share Image
No more harmful nonsense exists than [the] common supposition that deepest insight into great questions about the meaning of life or the… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
As an atheist evolving to agnosticism, and seeking answers to whether or not belief in God is potentially rational, my life was… — Francis Collins Copy Share Image
... the mere thought of going near a man who is not mellowly pickled, and whose breath reeks of his native fleshy… — Caitlin Thomas Copy Share Image
How odd that Americans, and not just their presidents, have come to think of their Constitution as something separable from the government… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
To remain pure, a novel has to cast a moral puzzle. Anything else is mere negotiation. — Anita Brookner Copy Share Image
Civility does not ...mean the mere outward gentleness of speech cultivated for the occasion, but an inborn gentleness and desire to do… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
We call ourselves Homo sapiens--man the wise--because our intelligence is so important to us. For thousands of years, we have tried to… — Stuart J. Russell Copy Share Image
There will have to be rigid and iron discipline before we achieve anything great and enduring, and that discipline will not come… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Photographers, you will never become artists. All you are is mere copiers. — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
All time is eternal, moving inexorably toward an end which we believe is a result of our actions, but over which our… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
Nobody does Israel any service by proclaiming its 'right to exist.' Israel's right to exist, like that of the United States, Saudi… — Abba Eban Copy Share Image
Eternal life means more than mere future blessing to be enjoyed by believers; it is equally a kind of spiritual ability. — Watchman Nee Copy Share Image