Adroit observers will find that some who affect to dislike flattery, may yet be flattered indirectly, by a well seasoned abuse and… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
One is happy to report that Israel Shenker is still at the aerosol stage. His energy is still compressed. The result distinguishes… — Christopher Lehmann-Haupt Copy Share Image
Some observers compare elections in some countries with sports events, where people are but spectators. Moreover, elections must not be mere interludes… — Alfred-Maurice de Zayas Copy Share Image
Most observers understand the difference between a committed Christian who accepts Jesus as a model for living and a 'cultural Christian' who… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
Every artist, every scientist, must decide now where he stands. He has no alternative. There is no standing above the conflict on… — Paul Robeson Copy Share Image
There are two men in Tolstoy. He is a mystic and he is also a realist. He is addicted to the practice… — William Ernest Henley Copy Share Image
On the most usual assumption, the universe is homogeneous on the large scale, i.e. down to regions containing each an appreciable number… — Hermann Bondi Copy Share Image
If we imagine an observer to approach our planet from outer space, and, pushing aside the belts of red-brown clouds which obscure… — Eduard Suess Copy Share Image
A French observer is surprised to hear how often an English or an American lawyer quotes the opinions of others, and how… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
There is in every human countenance either a history or a prophecy which must sadden, or at least soften every reflecting observer. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Like an ethereal presence You hang out everywhere. Not a naughty or scary goblin, Rather, an inquisitive observer, A concerned, caring custodian,… — Joyce Rupp Copy Share Image
Observers in the full enjoyment of their bodily senses pity me, but it is because they do not see the golden chamber… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
I am not much interested in discovering new territories to photograph. Instead, what I wish my pictures could do is lessen the… — Mark Klett Copy Share Image
The evolution of life, and the evolutionary origin of mankind, are scientifically established as firmly and completely as any historical event not… — Theodosius Dobzhansky Copy Share Image
The critic ... should be not merely a poet, not merely a philosopher, not merely an observer, but tempered of all three. — Margaret Fuller Copy Share Image
Rationalism belongs to the cool observer. But because of the stupidity of the average person, they follow not reason, but faith. This… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
The U theory suggests that the central integrating thought ... will emerge from building three integrated capacities: a new capacity for observing… — Betty Sue Flowers Copy Share Image
Children are excellent observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
To superficial observers his chin had too vanishing an aspect, looking as if it were being gradually reabsorbed. And it did indeed… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Perhaps, in the end, there are no such things as creative people; there are only sharp observers with sensitive hearts. — Yasmin Ahmad Copy Share Image
Silences, as every observer knows, have strange characteristics all their own - passionate silences, and hateful silences, and silences full of friendly,… — Alice Duer Miller Copy Share Image
President Bush will go down in history as the torture president. He has now defied a majority of Congress to allow the… — Jennifer Daskal Copy Share Image
The great events of history are often due to secular changes in the growth of population and other fundamental economic causes, which,… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
Painters... are the most lively observers of what passes in the world about them, and the closest observers of what passes in… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The destruction of this planet would have no significance on a cosmic scale: to an observer in the Andromeda nebula, the sign… — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
