All art preserves mysteries which aesthetic philosophers tackle in vain. — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
Abject flattery and indiscriminate assentation degrade, as much as indiscriminate contradiction and noisy debate disgust. But a modest assertion of one's own… — Doug Stanhope Copy Share Image
Edgar Wayburn has worked to preserve the most breath-taking examples of the American landscape. In fact, over the course of more than… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
In war, too, the discretionary power of the Executive is extended; its influence in dealing out offices, honors, and emoluments is multiplied;… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Language expresses people's thinking and it was by a Word that God created the world and preserves it. — Walter Lang Copy Share Image
Beauty commonly produces love, but cleanliness preserves it. Age itself is not unamiable while it is preserved clean and unsullied; like a… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Happiness and Prosperity are now within our Reach; but to attain and preserve them must depend upon our own Wisdom and Virtue. — George Mason Copy Share Image
Within the child lies the fate of the future. Whoever wishes to confer some benefit on society must preserve him from deviations… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
The confrontation was not created by the police. The confrontation was created by the people who charged the police. Gentlemen, get the… — Richard J. Daley Copy Share Image
There never was a strong character that was not made strong by discipline of the will; there never was a strong people… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I am confident that those who believe in belief are wrong. That is, we no more need to preserve the myth of… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more… — Mary Ruwart Copy Share Image
To preserve, to improve, and to perpetuate the sources and to direct in their most effective channels the streams which contribute to… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
I think it was Roger Fry who first coined what he took to be a final definition of a work of art,… — Alistair Cooke Copy Share Image
Let me tell you what is coming. After the sacrifice of countless millions of treasure and hundreds of thousands of lives you… — Sam Houston Copy Share Image
The Union, and the Constitution, are the picture of silver, subsequently framed around it. The picture was not made to conceal or… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
What, by a word lacking even in grammar, is called amorality, is a thing that does not exist. If you are unwilling… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
The means by which I preserve my own health are, temperance, early rising, and spunging the body every morning with cold water,… — Astley Cooper Copy Share Image
Knowledge is an excellent drug; but no drug has virtue enough to preserve itself from corruption and decay, if the vessel be… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
History is made and preserved by and for particular classes of people. A camera in some hands can preserve an alternate history. — David Wojnarowicz Copy Share Image
To preserve his life, should a man pay everything that gives it color, scent and excitement? — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
If civilization is to survive, the principles of the Prince of Peace must be restored. Shattered trust between nations must be revived.… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Our findings do not represent a quick fix, or the next fashion statement in a long string of management fads, or the… — James C. Collins Copy Share Image
We ought to give our friend pain if it will benefit him, but not to the extent of breaking off our friendship;… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
Mathematical analysis is as extensive as nature itself; it defines all perceptible relations, measures times, spaces, forces, temperatures:;; this difficult science is… — Joseph Fourier Copy Share Image
