Crime is the soul of lust. What would pleasure be if it were not accompanied by crime? It is not the object… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
There is sorrow in finitude. The Self is beyond time, space and objects. It is infinite and hence of the nature of… — Adi Shankara Copy Share Image
“A border--the perimeter of a single massive or stretched-out use of territory--forms the edge of an area of 'ordinary' city. Often borders… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
It was the peculiar artifice of Habit not to suffer her power to be felt at first. Those whom she led, she… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
There is a plain distinction to be made betwixt pleasure and happiness. For tho' there can be no happiness without pleasure--yet the… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
It was actually books that started to make those pockets of freedom, which I hadn't otherwise experienced. I do see them as… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
In all the sciences except Psychology we deal with objects and their changes, and leave out of account as far as possible… — Charles D. Broad Copy Share Image
In general, the objects in the universe that are very high-energy objects, or the processes that are high-energy processes, will radiate more… — Claude Nicollier Copy Share Image
“I think men get nervous when women start counting the number of female senators, and whites become edgy when they hear the… — Dahlia Lithwick Copy Share Image
Recycling is more expensive for communities than it needs to be, partly because traditional recycling tries to force materials into more lifetimes… — William McDonough Copy Share Image
At the other end of the spectrum is, for example, graph theory, where the basic object, a graph, can be immediately comprehended.… — Timothy Gowers Copy Share Image
Since [Rousseau's] time, and largely thanks to him, the Ego has steadily tended to efface itself, and, for purposes of model, to… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
The strongest affection and utmost zeal should, I think, promote the studies concerned with the most beautiful objects, most deserving to be… — Nicolaus Copernicus Copy Share Image
The object of love is not getting something you want but doing something for the well-being of the one you love. — Gary Chapman Copy Share Image
The opinions of men should not be the object of any government. Our civil rights are no more dependent on our religious… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
To all of which is added a selection from the elementary schools of subjects of the most promising genius, whose parents are… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Every act of the man inscribes itself in the memories of his fellows, and in his own manners and face. The air… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Ours has been called a culture of narcissism. The label is apt but can be misleading. It reads colloquially as selfishness and… — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
I am never afraid to serve the society. And if someone objects, I will send them a garland. — Mayawati Copy Share Image
Strange the affection which clings to inanimate objects - objects which cannot even know our love! But it is not return that… — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
There are many doors to goodness. (Saying) 'glory to God,' 'praise be to God,' 'there is no deity but God,' enjoining good,… — Muhammad Copy Share Image
He wouldn't talk to me for two months. I was like, 'What an ass**le.' Actors are used to getting their way and… — Jennifer Lopez Copy Share Image
I don't see men or women as my sexual objects. I keep myself out of that equation. — Steven Klein Copy Share Image
Pinball games were constrained by physical limitations, ultimately by the physical laws that govern the motion of a small metal ball. The… — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
I had seen faces in photographs I might have found beautiful had I known even vaguely in what beauty was supposed to… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
Your afflictions may only prove that you are more immediately under the Father's hand. There is no time that the patient is… — Robert Murray M'Cheyne Copy Share Image
Westerners think that all that is negative and positive is only caused from outside of themselves. They materialize and externalize their experiences,… — Thinley Norbu Copy Share Image
When the sun is covered by clouds, objects are less conspicuous, because there is little difference between the light and shade of… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
When I teach a class I often give the assignment: Photograph someone you love. I ask people to do this so they… — John Loengard Copy Share Image
Love and enthusiasm are always ridiculous, when not reciprocated by their objects. — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington Copy Share Image
The word is like an object - we were thinking "bloom," "doom." It encapsulated tons: the bloom, the end of the bloom,… — Alex Scally Copy Share Image
No design works unless it embodies ideas that are held common by the people for whom the object is intended. — Adrian Forty Copy Share Image
Books woke me up. Books are my favorite man-made objects. I fetishize their design, smell, feel. And that they can contain such… — Ken Baumann Copy Share Image
“A shifty, fickle object is woman, always. (Varium et mutabile semper femina.)” — Virgil Copy Share Image
It is one of the ironies of this strange century that the most lasting results of the October revolution, whose object was… — Eric Hobsbawm Copy Share Image
“[Photography] allows me to accede to an infra-knowledge; it supplies me with a collection of partial objects and can flatter a certain… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
The more I have learned about wine ... the more I have realized that it weaves in with human history from its… — Hugh S. Johnson Copy Share Image
There are some beings who reach a point where they no longer want to move through the ten thousand states of mind.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Of course, pictures of objects also have this transcendental side to them. Every object, being part of an ultimately incomprehensible world, also… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image