Where constraint breaks people, and mediation makes fools of them, the seduction of power is what makes them love their oppression. Because… — Raoul Vaneigem Copy Share Image
Life, like classical music, is full of difficult passages that are conquered as much through endurance and determination as through any particular… — Sheri L. Dew Copy Share Image
The music of the supreme architect, Bach, is filled with pages of discursive argument and rumination, glorifying the nameless whole by a… — Russell Sherman Copy Share Image
The only requisite to entry into the Middle Passage is to have discovered that one does not know who one is, that… — James Hollis Copy Share Image
Endurance involves much more than putting up with a situation; Patient Endurance is more than pacing up and down within the cell… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
Because a child of one doubles its age after the passage of a single year, it can be said to be aging… — Henry Taube Copy Share Image
Man has gone out to explore other worlds and other civilizations without having explored his own labyrinth of dark passages and secret… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To believe that will has power over potentiality, that the passage to actuality is the result of a decision that puts an… — Giorgio Agamben Copy Share Image
Men of wit, learning and virtue might strike out every offensive or unbecoming passage from plays. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
I believe that the harm which Mill has done to the world by the passage in his book on Political Economy in… — Richard Cobden Copy Share Image
There are black zones of shadow close to our daily paths, and now and then some evil soul breaks a passage through.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm not alive. People believe memories grow vague, are erased by time, since nothing endures against the passage of time. That's the… — Charlotte Delbo Copy Share Image
You look older.” “Yes, well. The passage of time tends to do that to a person. — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
“The old house had a thousand doors in it. All old houses do. You can see them if you know how to… — Michael Montoure Copy Share Image
Experience had taught me that even the most precious memories fade with the passage of time. — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
It was the best place to be, thought Wilbur, this warm delicious cellar, with the garrulous geese, the changing seasons, the heat… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
Now we come to the passage. You can just see a little peep of the passage in Looking-glass House, if you leave… — Francesca Woodman Copy Share Image
We speak of memorizing as getting something 'by heart,' which really means 'by head.' But getting a poem or prose passage truly… — John Hollander Copy Share Image
The priority of any addict is to anaesthetise the pain of living to ease the passage of day with some purchased relief. — Russell Brand Copy Share Image
I love bookshelves, and stacks of books, spines, typography, and the feel of pages between my fingertips. I love bookmarks, and old… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
Were studying in Philippians, and Im trying to figure out this passage, Paul says I want to know Christ. What does that… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
In certain kinds of writing, particularly in art criticism and literary criticism, it is normal to come across long passages which are… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The private reader of listener can become an executant of felt meaning when he learns the poem or the musical passage by… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
Sorrow is a kind of rust of the soul, which every new idea contributes in its passage to scour away. It is… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
There are people whom even children's literature would corrupt. They read with particular enjoyment the piquant passages in the Psalter and in… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
