But in general, for the purposes of most novelists, the number of objects genuinely necessary for. . .describing a scene will be… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
The eye - which sees all objects reversed - retains the images for some time. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
The word 'idiot' comes from a Greek root meaning private person. Idiocy is the female defect: intent on their private lives, women… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
The contemplation of truth and beauty is the proper object for which we were created, which calls forth the most intense desires… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Things changed with the discovery of neutron stars and black holes - objects with gravitational fields so intense that dramatic space and… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
When the object is perceived as particular and unique and not merely the member of a family, when it appears independent of… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
We need objects to remind us of the commitments we've made. That carpet from Morocco reminds us of the impulsive, freedom-loving side… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Treating 'water' as a name of a single scattered object is not intended to enable us to dispense with general terms and… — Willard Van Orman Quine Copy Share Image
The basis of bureaucratic rule is the poverty of society in objects of consumption, with the resulting struggle of each against all.… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
This perception of division between the seer and the object that is seen, is situated in the mind. For those remaining in… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
The universe is composed of subjects to be communed with, not objects to be exploited. Everything has its own voice. Thunder and… — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image
Are we all not, when we sit in the cinema, in the position of humans in The Matrix, tied to chairs, immersed… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
Travel. It was an intransitive verb. It didn't involve any destinations. It was going to the going's sake, to be anywhere but… — Jonathan Raban Copy Share Image
My religion teaches me that a promise once made or a vow once taken for a worthy object may not be broken. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
When I think of God, when I think of him as existent, and when I believe him to be existent, my idea… — David Hume Copy Share Image
It followed us during half of our orbit. We observed it on the light side, and when we entered the shadow side,… — Viktor Mikhailovich Afanasyev Copy Share Image
I now know that to do a worthwhile family history I must interpret the past without falling into either demonizing or unquestioning… — David Henry Hwang Copy Share Image
I was brought up on the romance of American achievement. No matter where you start, if you work hard and if you… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
It is impossible to unite Christ and Baal -- their spirits cannot unite, their objects and purposes are entirely different; the one… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
Our ancestors, when about to build a town or an army post, sacrificed some of the cattle that were wont to feed… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
It’s paradoxical that the death of your quarry is besides the point and at the same time the whole point. A chase… — Philip Caputo Copy Share Image
Learn, as if never overtaking your object, and yet as if apprehensive of losing it. — Confucius Copy Share Image
The real evil isn't the objects of technology but the tendency of technology to isolate people into lonely attitudes of objectivity. It's… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
In my opinion, one of the greatest animal-welfare problems is the physical abuse of livestock during transportation.... Typical abuses I have witnessed… — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
Love does nothing but make you weak! It turns you into an object of pity and derision-a mewling pathetic creature no more… — Teresa Medeiros Copy Share Image
For many of those who had historically supported welfare programs in the broadest sense, it was perfectly reasonable to enact legislation in… — Barney Frank Copy Share Image
I do not believe in objects. I believe only in their relationships. — Georges Braque Copy Share Image
A Daughter: The companion, the friend, and the confidant of her mother, and the object of a pleasure something like the love… — Richard Steele Copy Share Image
But the knowledge and love of our Divine Redeemer, of which we were the object from the first moment of His Incarnation,… — Pope Pius XII Copy Share Image
The extent to which we take everyday objects for granted is the precise extent to which they govern and inform our lives. — Margaret Visser Copy Share Image
"Real" drawing is about specifics. It's about describing an object as accurately as possible. In a comic strip you have to draw… — Chris Ware Copy Share Image
Oh, this thing of keeping in constant touch with God, of making him the object of my thought and the companion of… — Frank Laubach Copy Share Image
My plan of instruction is extremely simple and limited. They learn, on week-days, such coarse works as may fit them for servants.… — Hannah More Copy Share Image
Persons without education certainly do not want either acuteness or strength of mind in what concerns themselves, or in things immediately within… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
There is nothing wrong with being well off as long as money has a social and ethical value and is not the… — Aga Khan IV Copy Share Image
The night comes for the purpose of checking our busy employment, and introducing an interval of repose between the links of our… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
Nature has ordained that the man who is pleading his own cause before a large audience, will be more readily listened to… — Livy Copy Share Image
