The vanishing of David Tang is like the unthinkable diappearance of a magnificent palace on a mythical mountaintop. He was a dreammaker,… — Simon Sebag Montefiore Copy Share Image
You know, I didn't write my books for critics and scholars. I wrote them for students and artists. When I hear how… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
I am not a theologian or a scholar, but I am very aware of the fact that pain is necessary to all… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
The John F. Kennedy Institute of Politics was originally intended to bring scholars and politicians into closer contact, on the assumption that… — Donald E. Graham Copy Share Image
In actual fact, I have been an academic - a college and university teacher and scholar - for much of the last… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
The Patriarch Joseph, after agreeing with the Latins that their formula of the Holy Ghost proceeding from the Son meant the same… — Steven Runciman Copy Share Image
It certainly is an embarrassing fact, then, for certain classical scholars to have to face, that the Platonic Academy continued to function… — Robert K. G. Temple Copy Share Image
Scholars do one of two things when they discover information that doesn't fit what they already know. Either they sweep it aside… — Deborah Harkness Copy Share Image
As a scholar, you don't want to repeat yourself, ever. You're supposed to say it once, publish it, and then it's published,… — Drew Gilpin Faust Copy Share Image
All men have the stars," he answered, "but they are not the same things for different people. For some, who are travellers,… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
Another [book on Matthew] is Amy-Jill Levine, who is a Jewish woman who teaches New Testament at the Vanderbilt School of Religion.… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
Port is not for the very young, the vain and the active. It is the comfort of age and the companion of… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
Nothing is more priceless and more worthy of preservation than the rich array of animal life with which our country has been… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
As any sin passes through its stages from temptation, to toleration, to approval, its name is first euphemized, then avoided, then forgotten.… — J. Budziszewski Copy Share Image
We value virtue but do not discuss it. The honest bookkeeper, the faithful wife, the earnest scholar get little of our attention… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
The scholar may be sure that he writes the tougher truth for the calluses on his palms. They give firmness to the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Study the Bible like a soldier on a mission, not a scholar on a sabbatical. — Mark Driscoll Copy Share Image
To talk in public, to think in solitude, to read and to hear, to inquire and answer inquiries, is the business of… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Good scholars struggle to understand the world in an integral way (pedants bite off tiny bits and worry them to death). These… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Only the fairy tale equates changelessness with happiness...Permanence means paralysis and death. Only, in movement, with all its pain, is life. — Jacob Burckhardt Copy Share Image
The old man was peering intently at the shelves. 'I'll have to admit that he's a very competent scholar.' Isn't he just… — David Eddings Copy Share Image
Noah is the battle of justice versus mercy. In Genesis it says that Noah was righteous in his times. You think you… — Darren Aronofsky Copy Share Image
A scholar can hardly be better employed than in destroying a fear. — Clifford Geertz Copy Share Image
Every day, the sun; and, after sunset, night and her stars. Ever the winds blow; ever the grass grows. Every day, men… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
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