The trouble is that when most people are apathetic ordinary people ... have to go too far, have to ruin their lives… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I'm getting rather hoarse, I fear, After so much reciting: So, if you don't object, my dear, We'll try a glass of… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
Our daughters are the most precious of our treasures, the dearest possessions of our homes and the objects of our most watchful… — Margaret Elizabeth Sangster Copy Share Image
“To treat an object primarily as part of a network is to assume it can be reduced to that set of qualities… — Graham Harman Copy Share Image
The radiation of radium was "contagious"-Contagious like a persistent scent or a disease. It was impossible for an object, a plant, an… — Eve Curie Copy Share Image
In order to understand, it is immensely important for the person who understands to be located outside the object of his or… — Mikhail Bakhtin Copy Share Image
For my part, I wish, with Mr. Howells, that the literature of the past might be purged of all that is ugly… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
My themes are derived from current events, from familiar situations, from daily life, because I never actively intervene against the object, I… — Domenico Gnoli Copy Share Image
Between women love is contemplative; caresses are intended less to gain possession of the other than gradually to re-create the self through… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
For some years now I have been considering the idea of making a watch that our agents could sell at a more… — Hans Wilsdorf Copy Share Image
As I considered the matter carefully it gradually came to light that all those matters only were referred to mathematics in which… — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
Your Englishman, confronted by something abnormal will always pretend that it isn't there. If, however, you force him to look into it,… — James Agate Copy Share Image
I don't get a big charge out of being the leading scorer. The object of competing is winning. I just try to… — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Copy Share Image
Careless of books, yet having felt the power Of Nature, by the gentle agency Of natural objects, led me on to feel… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
Business reporting is not dealing with objects, it is dealing with relationships between objects. — Hasso Plattner Copy Share Image
Art is continually working to take the crust of familiarity off everyday objects. — Rudolf Arnheim Copy Share Image
Poetry is not the proper antithesis to prose, but to science. Poetry is opposed to science, and prose to meter. The proper… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
The object of all life is development; and everything that lives has an inalienable right to all the development it is capable… — Wallace D. Wattles Copy Share Image
While it does, and should, feel good to be appreciated by another person, if you are dependent upon their appreciation to feel… — Esther Hicks Copy Share Image
What I think about when I frequent the Museum of Natural History, the Metropolitan [Museum of Art], and I look at these… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
Satyagraha thrives on repression till at last the repressor is tired of it and the object of satyagraha is gained. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
All of the promises of ObamaCare, all of those shiny objects that were sold in Christmas in 2009 didn't come true. — Reince Priebus Copy Share Image
I believe Business Objects is on the cusp of becoming a multi-billion-dollar sales company. There is tremendous growth potential for business intelligence. — Bernard Liautaud Copy Share Image
Networked, we are together, but so lessened are our expectations of each other that we can feel utterly alone. And there is… — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
[W]e must extend the authority of the Union to the persons of the citizens - the only proper objects of government. — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
What is conserved in the ground? Stone, bronze, ivory, bone, sometimes pottery. Never wood objects, no fabric or skins. That completely skews… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
When you want a thing deeply, earnestly and intensely, this feeling of desire reinforces your will and arouses in you the determination… — Grenville Kleiser Copy Share Image
Phones are interesting objects. Sometimes you wish they just didn't exist. — Iskra Lawrence Copy Share Image
The relation of faith between subject and object is unique in every case. Hundreds may believe, but each has to believe by… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
When a sudden ray of sun or a moonbeam falls on a dreary street, it makes no difference what it illumines-a broken… — Luci Swindoll Copy Share Image
In teaching, you must simply work your pupil into such a state of interest in what you are going to teach him… — William James Copy Share Image
They whirled past the dark trees, as feathers would be swept before a hurricane. Houses, gates, churches, hay-stacks, objects of every kind… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The idea of, say, the compressed space between the floor and the object hanging over it and then the long space between… — Robert Barry Copy Share Image
Among the many interesting objects which will engage your attention that of providing for the common defense will merit particular regard. To… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Give us our parliament in Scotland. We will start with no traditions. We will start with ideals. We will start with purpose,… — James Maxton Copy Share Image
This system in which a child is constantly moving objects with his hands and actively exercising his senses, also takes into account… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
If you were going to make sculptures of them, the swivel poems would be disparate objects all attached with hinges and the… — Matthea Harvey Copy Share Image
When a great man has some one object in view to be achieved in a given time, it may be absolutely necessary… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
How many there are ... who imagine that because Jesus paid it all, they need pay nothing, forgetting that the prime object… — Lottie Moon Copy Share Image
I believe that photography loves banal objects, and I love the life of objects. — Josef Sudek Copy Share Image