There is no idleness, by which we are so easily seduced, as that which dignifies itself by the appearance of business, and… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Alan Rocke's Image and Reality does so many things vividly and convincingly: it shows how visual images led chemistry step by step… — Roald Hoffmann Copy Share Image
Chélan had acted as imprudently for Julien as he had for himself. He had given him the habit of reasoning correctly, and… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
My chief time for reading is at night while brushing my hair before I go to bed, and as you may suppose,… — Fanny Kemble Copy Share Image
While the fictional realm as such allows for the obstacles of present-day politics to be altered, neglected, and negotiated at will, sci-fi… — Larissa Sansour Copy Share Image
Just let matters slide. How much better to accept each sweet drop of the honey that was Time, than to stoop to… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
However, it [singing] wasn't until halfway through high school that it dawned on me that singing wasn't just a hobby, it was… — Kina Grannis Copy Share Image
The state is now more involved than it ever has been in the raising of children. And children are now more neglected,… — Bob Dole Copy Share Image
Books are faithful repositories, which may be awhile neglected or forgotten; but when they are opened again, will again impart their instruction:… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Sven must have neglected to pay tribute to one of those strict Nordic gods. But instead of cursing Eriksson himself, Thor has… — Simon Barnes Copy Share Image
We submit to the society of those that can inform us, but we seek the society of those whom we can inform.… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
A lean cheek; which you have not: a blue eye, and sunken; which you have not: an unquestionable spirit; which you have… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
In the current setting the situation of the poor is neglected despite the grotesque wealth of the capitalist elites, and the dangers… — Richard A. Falk Copy Share Image
Time is never more misspent than while we declaim against the want of it; all our actions are then tinctured with peevishness.… — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann Copy Share Image
Public infrastructure around the world is facing unprecedented stress, with hurricanes, cyclones, floods and forest fires all increasing in frequency and intensity.… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
It was a very funny conference. I knew [Christopher Hitchens] before that. He had always been a good angel to me. He… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
All this business of a labour to accomplish, before I can end, of words to say, a truth to recover, in order… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
Say, ye oppress'd by some fantastic woes, Some jarring nerve that baffles your repose; Who press the downy couch, while slaves advance… — George Crabbe Copy Share Image
The president made clear when he was a candidate for this office and when he took this office, that unfortunately prior to… — Jay Carney Copy Share Image
Why I talked about political correctness: the colonial is now such a major taboo that any achievement of the colonial period, or… — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
No matter where its seed fell, it made a tree which struggled to reach the sky. It grew in boarded-up lots and… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
The Colonel explained to me that 1. this was Alaska's room, and that 2. she had a single room because the girl… — John Green Copy Share Image
From secrecy and deception in high places; come home, America. From military spending so wasteful that it weakens our nation; come home,… — George McGovern Copy Share Image
John Lane has long been recognized as one of the South's finest poets and memoirists. This debut establishes him as one of… — Ron Rash Copy Share Image
The enemy uses all his power to lead the Christian, and above all the minister, to neglect prayer. He knows that however… — Andy Murray Copy Share Image
The working classes may be injuriously degraded and oppressed in three ways: 1st - When they are neglected in infancy 2nd -… — Robert Owen Copy Share Image
The thing that most haunted me that day, however...was the fact that these things had - apparently - actually occurred...For all his… — Elizabeth Kostova Copy Share Image
Unless a writer is extremely old when he dies, in which case he has probably become a neglected institution, his death must… — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
The absence of a focal enemy, which is what the Cold War had provided; the complexity of the developments that are occurring… — Graham T. Allison Copy Share Image
Beware of the manipulativeness of rich students who were neglected by their parents. They love to turn the campus into hysterical psychodramas… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Perhaps both men and women in America may hunger, in our material, outward, active, masculine culture, for the supposedly feminine qualities of… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
I think everyone's had a brother or a father or a cousin, uncle or grandfather who's had health issues because they've neglected… — James Magnussen Copy Share Image
The policy of letting the child 'do what he likes' is an insidious one, since the children are encouraged to continue always… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
There is all the difference in the world between the criminal's avoiding the public eye and the civil disobedience's taking the law… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Most of the people I know who were raised to be accommodating or were raised to just be nice and put everybody's… — Stephen Chbosky Copy Share Image
What an unbearable creature he must have been in those days--and yet in those days he had been comparatively innocent. That was… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
Our world is utterly saturated with fear. We fear being attacked by religious extremists, both foreign and domestic. We fear the loss… — Brendan Myers Copy Share Image
I may say that this is the greatest factor: the way in which the expedition is equipped, the way in which every… — Roald Amundsen Copy Share Image
When you cease to fear your solitude, a new creativity awakens in you. Your forgotten or neglected wealth begins to reveal itself.… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
My claim is simply that the literary approach is one necessary way to read and interpret the Bible, an approach that has… — Leland Ryken Copy Share Image
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