Therefore, criticism has to direct itself against itself, and against the mysterious Substance in which it has up to now hid itself.… — Bruno Bauer Copy Share Image
Extremes in nature equal ends produce; In man they join to some mysterious use. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
For the emergent process, as noted by the geneticist Theodore Dobzhansky, is neither random nor determined but creative. Just as in human… — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image
But however mysterious is nature , however ignorant the doctor, however imperfect the present state of physical science , the patronage and… — P. T. Barnum Copy Share Image
Aside from velcro, time is the most mysterious substance in the universe. You can't see it or touch it, yet a plumber… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is,… — Harry Emerson Fosdick Copy Share Image
I, also, would like to look and smile, sit and walk like that, so free, so worthy, so restrained, so candid, so… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
The flood of time is rolling on; We stand upon its brink, whilst they are gone To glide in peace down death's… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
He'd never had to make the adjustments and compromises other people accepted early in their romantic careers; never had a chance to… — Tom Perrotta Copy Share Image
Flowers . . . have a mysterious and subtle influence upon the feelings, not unlike some strains of music. They relax the… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Let me stop there, but my God, how beautiful Shakespeare is, who else is as mysterious as he is; his language and… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
Digital is my safety net. I know how to use it, how to operate those cameras; it makes sense to me. Film… — David Lowery Copy Share Image
Maybe all wondrous books appear in our lives the way Milo’s tollbooth appears, an inexplicable gift, cast up by some curious chance… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
I think our minds respond to things beyond this world. Take beauty: it's a very mysterious thing, isn't it? I think it's… — Agnes Martin Copy Share Image
Then let yourself love all that you take delight in Accept yourself whole, accept the heritage That shaped you and is passed… — John Ashbery Copy Share Image
It was my life — like all lives, mysterious and irrevocable and sacred. So very close, so very present, so very belonging… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
Language is, without a doubt, the most momentous and at the same time the most mysterious product of the human mind. — Susanne Katherina Langer Copy Share Image
The human mind is a fearful instrument of adaptation, and in nothing is this more clearly shown than in its mysterious powers… — Thomas Wolfe Copy Share Image
Technology is supposed to make our lives easier, allowing us to do things more quickly and efficiently. But too often it seems… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
It can only be by blinding the understanding of man, and making him believe that government is some wonderful mysterious thing, that… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Cancer is a disease that is mysterious, headstrong and makes its own rules. And mine, to this date, is incurable. — Farrah Fawcett Copy Share Image
To most middle-class feminists, as to most middle-class non-feminists, working-class women remain mysterious creatures to be “reached out to” in some abstract… — Irena Klepfisz Copy Share Image
I find enough mystery in mathematics to satisfy my spiritual needs. I think, for example, that pi is mysterious enough (don't get… — Tom Lehrer Copy Share Image
To imagine that "God moves in mysterious ways" is to put up a smokescreen of mystery behind which fantasy may survive in… — Barbara Smoker Copy Share Image
I've always believed that poetry must speak of realities as least as complicated as those spoken of in prose. I've read books… — Lawrence Joseph Copy Share Image
