He sighed deeply: to fall in love at first sight with this malodorous sleeping girl, with, as far as he could see,… — Betty Neels Copy Share Image
There is nothing finer in the world than the telling of tales. Split atoms if you wish, but splitting an infinitive-and getting… — Greg Bear Copy Share Image
I have not the slightest pretension to call my verses poetry; I write now and then for no other purpose than to… — Alfred Nobel Copy Share Image
If fallacies come knocking at my door,I'd rather feed, and shelter full a score,Than hide behind the black portcullis, doubt,And run the… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
It is no disgrace not to be able to do everything; but to undertake, or pretend to do, what you are not… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
This is a new land - a land of pretension because it is new; because classes and systems have not had that… — Thomas D'Arcy McGee Copy Share Image
I am no lover of disorder and doubt as such. Rather do I fear to lose truth by this pretension to possess… — William James Copy Share Image
Thus, for followers of Christ, calling neutralizes the fundamental position of choice in modern life. “I have chosen you,” Jesus said, “you… — Os Guinness Copy Share Image
Zhuangzi is especially insightful about the human pretension to know. The Zhuangzi tells a story about a frog who lives in caved-in… — David Wong Copy Share Image
Say anything you want against The Seventh Seal. My fear of death — this infantile fixation of mine — was, at that… — Ingmar Bergman Copy Share Image
That politeness which we put on, in order to keep the assuming and the presumptuous at a proper distance will generally succeed.… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
We must cultivate and defend particularity, individuality, and irregularity-life. Human beings do not have a future in the collectivism of bureaucratic states… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
Nothing is more important than honesty in prayer. There are no pretensions in prayer, so the best place to begin is wherever… — Robert H. Schuller Copy Share Image
The person who experiences greatness must have a feeling for the myth he is in. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
The Rolling Stones have been the best of all possible worlds: they have the lack of pretension and sentimentality associated with the… — Jon Landau Copy Share Image
Honor is truly sacred, but holds a lower rank in the scale of moral excellence than virtue. Indeed the former is part… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Once we have taken the backward step to an abstract view of our whole system of beliefs, evidence, and justification, and seen… — Thomas Nagel Copy Share Image
He was Caesar and Pope in one; but he was Pope without Pope's pretensions, Caesar without the legions of Caesar: without a… — Benjamin Smith Copy Share Image
It's the time of year when the literati give advice on what we should be reading on our summer holidays. These terrifying… — Arthur Smith Copy Share Image
You showed me how insufficient were all my pretensions to please a woman worthy of being pleased. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Civilisation is only a pretense. In crisis we have become mere apes again, forgetting the rational biped of our pretensions and instead… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
It is not the feeling sure of a doctrine (be it what it may) which I call an assumption of infallibility. It… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
For in religion as in friendship, they who profess most are ever the least sincere. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan Copy Share Image
On the other hand, hope is subversive, for it limits the grandiose pretension of the present, daring to announce that the present… — Walter Brueggemann Copy Share Image
