Flowers . . . have a mysterious and subtle influence upon the feelings, not unlike some strains of music. They relax the… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
It's always gratifying to share a hobby with a friend, and pining for erstwhile suitors falls into that category. In the months… — Patricia Marx Copy Share Image
In thus pointing out certain respects in which philosophy resembles literature more than science, I do not mean, of course, to imply… — Morris Raphael Cohen Copy Share Image
It's the fact that you can reduce my whole life to one word, whatever it is, my entire career, my service to… — Paula Broadwell Copy Share Image
It is a thoughtless and immodest presumption to learn anything about art from philosophy. Some do begin as if they hoped to… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
Somebody else does the rigor and then I listen. I have an assistant, and my manager, and other people who hunt and… — Joan Baez Copy Share Image
But I would much prefer students going to college to learn and be prepared for the rigors of the new economic order,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Some philosophers can't bear to say simple things, like "Suppose a dog bites a man." They feel obliged instead to say, "Suppose… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I went to work for Catholics United for the Faith, and I basically found myself in the midst of the traditionalist branch… — Regina Doman Copy Share Image
Dalai Lama was leading his country during the rigors of World War II, he was in Beijing for a year in 1954;… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
I shall devote all my efforts to bring light into the immense obscurity that today reigns in Analysis. It so lacks any… — Niels Henrik Abel Copy Share Image
One of the strangest things about writing well is that it requires two different zones in the brain--rigor and recklessness--simultaneously. — Carole Maso Copy Share Image
I do think that the sense of being opposed to the present moment, that sense of the rub of history, invigorates the… — Garth Greenwell Copy Share Image
May it not be asked of every intelligent friend to the liberties of his country, whether the power exercised in such an… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Cruelty signifies rigor, implacable intention and decision, irreversible and absolute determination, — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
Affections injured by tyranny, or rigor of compulsion, like tempest-threatened trees, unfirmly rooted, never spring to timely growth — John Ford Copy Share Image
In Necessary Marriage, I tried to repeat entire phrases without the reader noticing. My work doesn't have the rigor of music, but… — Dumitru Tepeneag Copy Share Image
Donald Trump is showing the intellectual rigor, and emotional maturity, of a second grader. That's hardly being age-ist. This is a man… — Gene Weingarten Copy Share Image
As one who was never terribly enamored of Hillary Clinton's personality to start with, I grudgingly admit to enjoying her recent near-tears… — Matt Labash Copy Share Image
I really can't claim ever to have had an exceptionally close relationship with a minister. I'm always there. I pay my pledge.… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
To defend Western Europe we have to let the Pentagon buy all these tanks and guns and things, and the Pentagon is… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
Theism, as a way of conceiving God, has become demonstrably inadequate, and the God of theism not only is dying but is… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
Mine is just a simple old human story - of one person trying, with great rigor and discipline, to comprehend her personal… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
There is nothing sacred or untouchable except the freedom to think. Without criticism, that is to say, without rigor and experimentation, there… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
You smile with pomp and rigor, you talk of benevolence and virtue; I act with benevolence and virtue and get murdered time… — William Blake Copy Share Image
