Once you get past the grand normative claims made in the West for literature, especially the novel, in the post-Christian era -… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
I'm saying that there were many great naturalists before Darwin's time who were very pious people and who knew more about nature… — Greg Graffin Copy Share Image
I have this very moment finished reading a novel called The Vicar of Wakefield [by Oliver Goldsmith].... It appears to me, to… — Fanny Burney Copy Share Image
Love is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own; for wheresoever a person… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
This Ayah indicates that the pious person should express his love to Allah by believing in His Prophet and following the Message,… — Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah Copy Share Image
Every good quality runs into a defect; economy borders on avarice, the generous are not far from the prodigal, the brave man… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
What's the meaning of all the pious clamor, condemning cocks and hens? Those who have no teeth are the greatest meat-haters. — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
I really do believe that no one is too pious to fall or too far gone to be redeemed in some way.… — Jeffrey Bell Copy Share Image
In pious times, ere priest-craft did begin, Before polygamy was made a sin; When man, on many, multipli'd his kind, Ere one… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
Sunlight is one and the same wherever it falls; but only a bright surface like that of water, or of a mirror… — Ramakrishna Copy Share Image
Poorly written novels--no matter how pious and edifying the behavior of the characters--are not good in themselves and are therefore not really… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
I am convinced that love is the most durable power in the world. It is not an expression of impractical idealism, but… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
A pious woman's neighbor, a philanthropist's child, a liberal's servant--these three have a hard life. — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
Have you considered that system of holy lies and pious frauds that has raged and triumphed for 1,500 years? — John Adams Copy Share Image
“There may be some truth (atheists) do not need to believe in a god to be good, but then if they do… — E.A. Bucchianeri Copy Share Image
“This is a night for song and sin and drink, for come the morrow, the virtuous and the vile burn together.” — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
I am not religious, but I am a pious man... A religious man has a definite religion. He says "God is there"… — Albert Szent-Gyorgyi Copy Share Image
He was one of those men who, even in the years of peace, would have advised his congregation that while God may… — Thomas Keneally Copy Share Image
The most courageous, and pious act of a human is to be with another human, because we are like stars in the… — Harbhajan Singh Yogi Copy Share Image
What can only be taught by the rod and with blows will not lead to much good; they will not remain pious… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Political Science carries inseparably with it the study of piety, and that he who is not pious cannot be truly wise. — Giambattista Vico Copy Share Image
For the myth is the foundation of life; it is the timeless schema, the pious formula into which life flows when it… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
