In philosophy, when we make use of false principles, we depart the farther from the knowledge of truth and wisdom exactly in… — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
I have to say that anger is the blanket that comes around me, and that blunts and blurs my sense of proportion. — Pete Townshend Copy Share Image
Failing to induce adulation and submissiveness, the Angkar could only generate hatred. If concealment was the ultimate ploy for the leadership, it… — Pol Pot Copy Share Image
I would argue that television and particularly the BBC were instrumental in puffing up the Royal Family to a level where they… — Andrew Morton Copy Share Image
Rooms are a fixed size, which can't be altered without pulling down walls and building new ones. They should be unchanging in… — Aidan Chambers Copy Share Image
In fact, Gentlemen, no geometry without arithmetic, no mechanics without geometry... you cannot count upon success, if your mind is not sufficiently… — Jean-Victor Poncelet Copy Share Image
Well, unfortunately, I have always regretted the fact that I have a temper, but I also have, you know, have great love… — Norman Schwarzkopf Copy Share Image
The Centers for Disease Control says that men's violence against women is at epidemic proportions. — Tony Porter Copy Share Image
Whatever good I have accomplished as an actress I believe came in direct proportion to my efforts to portray black women who… — Cicely Tyson Copy Share Image
Though there is a benevolence due to all mankind, none can question but a superior degree of it is to be paid… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
There are people starving in the siege, there are children traumatized and terrified. There are men women and children dying. This is… — Hanan Ashrawi Copy Share Image
This New York thing is being blown out of proportion. Who gives a **** about New York when elephants are being killed? — Lee Ryan Copy Share Image
During the 1960s, one neighborhood in San Francisco had the lowest income, the highest unemployment rate, the highest proportion of families with… — James Q. Wilson Copy Share Image
It is by loving, and not by being loved, that one can come nearest the soul of another; yea, that, where two… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
Seventy per cent of the clothes you own should be meat and potatoes. Thirty per cent should be icing and fluff -… — Michael Kors Copy Share Image
Age gives you a great sense of proportion. You can be very hard on yourself when you're younger but now I just… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The supposed great misery of our century is the lack of time; our sense of that, not a disinterested love of science,… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
All classes in proportion to their lack of travel and familiarity with foreign literature are bellicose, prejudiced against foreigners, fond of fighting… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Heaven and hell seem out of proportion to me: the actions of men do not deserve so much. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Popular glory is a perfect coquette; her lovers must toil, feel every inquietude, indulge every caprice, and perhaps at last be jilted… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Art is based on very clear, mathematical principles like proportion and harmony. At the same time, physicists need to be inventive, to… — Fabiola Gianotti Copy Share Image
If you're trying to create a company, it's like baking a cake. You have to have all the ingredients in the right… — Elon Musk Copy Share Image
Our admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion to its real difficulty and its apparent ease. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
I think I should not go far wrong if I asserted that the amount of genuine leisure available in a society is… — E. F. Schumacher Copy Share Image
