When someone who wields political power does something you dislike or disagree with, it's incumbent upon you to object, criticize, and demand… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
In his bleak mercy, Death forever strips The soul of light and memory, rendering blind Our vision, lest surmounted deeps appal, As… — Clark Ashton Smith Copy Share Image
One of the Age of Enlightenment's most hypnotic images is Ledoux's rendering of his neoclassical theater of 1775 - 1784 in Besancon,… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
Every businessman enjoying customer patronage, whether he be a baker, banker, or barber is conferring a public benefit, raising production, and reducing… — Hans F. Sennholz Copy Share Image
Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation of its subject, but actually a… — John Berger Copy Share Image
We are as much informed of a writer's genius by what he selects as by what he originates. We read the quotation… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In every country where independence has taken the place of liberty, the first desire of a manly heart is to possess a… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
A bleak, black book, it engenders awe and despair. I have read it in its entirety 4 1/2 times, each time finding… — Michael Silverblatt Copy Share Image
nothing which we are to perceive in this world equals the power of your intense fragility:whose texture compels me with the colour… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I would say to anybody who thinks that all the problems in philosophy can be translated into empirically verifiable answers - whether… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
Drawing instruction is a training towards perception, exact observation and exact presentation not of the outward appearances of an object, but of… — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share Image
To refer the power in question to the clause "to provide for the common defense and general welfare" would be contrary to… — James Madison Copy Share Image
You see? Characters in books do not read books. Oh, they snap them shut when somebody enters a room, or fling them… — Michael Swanwick Copy Share Image
Both Christianity and Islam are logocentric,” he told his students, “meaning they are focused on the Word. In Christian tradition, the Word… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
Distaste sounds more emphatic when expressed as moral disapproval. With most of us the moral counterblast is nothing more than the angry… — Frank Moore Colby Copy Share Image
It is not that love is blind. It is that love sees with a painter's eye, finding the essence that renders all… — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
...By combining a popular hatred of the class of entrepreneurs with the blow already given to social security by the violent and… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
Shelby believed that love was like a solar eclipse - breathtakingly beautiful, absorbing, and capable of rendering you blind. She had not… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
