The early symptoms of the disease [California Curse], which break out almost on arrival in Hollywood, are a sense of exaggerated self-importance… — Elinor Glyn Copy Share Image
How often do we sigh for opportunities for doing good, whilst we neglect the openings of Providence in little things, which would… — George Crabbe Copy Share Image
A person understands other's language only in tune with his attitude with most people all the time, so it's wise to act… — Anuj Copy Share Image
I am wholly in favour of 'dull stodges'. A surprising large proportion prove 'educable': for which a primary qualification is the willingness… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
The immediate cause of the increase of population is the excess of the births above deaths; and the rate of increase, or… — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
The eighteenth-century view of the garden was that it should lead the observer to the enjoyment of the aesthetic sentiments of regularity… — Penelope Hobhouse Copy Share Image
We cannot, without depraving our minds, endeavour to please a lover or husband, but in proportion as he pleases us. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I sketch in a way that people can nearly do the dresses without me coming in for a fitting. Every single detail,… — Karl Lagerfeld Copy Share Image
The opportunities of living are diminished in proportion as what are called the "means" are increased. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Pick up a sunflower and count the florets running into its centre, or count the spiral scales of a pine cone or… — Charles Jencks Copy Share Image
Being thus prepared for us in all ways, and made beautiful, and good for food, and for building, and for instruments of… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
In my opinion painting should be considered excellent in proportion as it approaches the effect of relief, while relief should be considered… — Michelangelo Copy Share Image
I enjoy about 1 out of 100 movies, it's about the same proportion to books published that I care to read. — Jim Harrison Copy Share Image
Every one must understand that, whatever be the evil of slavery, it is not increased by its diffusion. Every one familiar with… — Jefferson Davis Copy Share Image
The patriot, like the Christian, must learn to bear revilings and persecutions as a part of his duty; and in proportion as… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
In books, the proportion of exceptional to commonplace people is high; in reality, very low. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
It has been known for some time that a major nuclear war might lead to nuclear winter that would destroy the attacker… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
People who are given whatever they want soon develop a sense of entitlement and rapidly lose their sense of proportion. — Sarah Churchwell Copy Share Image
... what a fatal thing in pictures, books, or human lives, is a lack of proportion. — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Copy Share Image
The charms of the passing woman are generally in direct proportion to the swiftness of her passing. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
The snow, which had fallen quietly at first, was now pelting against the windowpanes, driven by a wicked wind; the storm was… — Frances Parkinson Keyes Copy Share Image
The more I think of a people calmly developing, in regions excluded from our sight and deemed uninhabitable by our sages, powers… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
... I am not afraid of priests. They have tried upon me all their various batteries of pious whining, hypocritical canting, lying… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
If you take this life to be simply what old religious folks pretend (I mean the effete, gone to seed in a… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The faculty for remembering is not diminished in proportion to what one has learnt, just as little as the number of moulds… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
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