What a gift of grace to be able to take the chaos from within and from it create some semblance of order. — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
Civilisation is hooped together, brought Under a rule, under the semblance of peace By manifold illusion. — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
No deceit is so veiled as that which lies concealed behind the semblance of courtesy. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
How delicious to corrupt, to stifle all semblances of virtue and religion in that young heart! — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
Like" and "like" and "like"--but what is the thing that lies beneath the semblance of the thing? — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Dialogue, contrary to popular view, is not a recording of actual speech; it is a semblance of speech, an invented language of… — Sol Stein Copy Share Image
We may be unable to maintain even a semblance of order in our urban schools, which increasingly resemble happy hour in Beirut.… — Don Feder Copy Share Image
Superstition moulds nature into an arbitrary semblance of the supernatural, and then bows down to the work of its own hands. — John Sterling Copy Share Image
Consciousness-raising is at the very least supposed to bring about an intimacy, but what it seems instead to bring about are the… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
At the heart of all that civilization has meant and developed is 'community' - the mutually cooperative and voluntary venture of man… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
One of the most marked characteristics of our day is a reckless neglect of principles, and a rigid adherence to their semblance. — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington Copy Share Image
Since we are all naturally prone to hypocrisy, any empty semblance of righteousness is quite enough to satisfy us instead of righteousness… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Thus grows up fashion, an equivocal semblance, the most puissant, the most fantastic and frivolous, the most feared and followed, and which… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
He who desires or attempts to reform the government of a state and wishes to have it accepted, must at least retain… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
It is not good for man to cherish a solitary ambition. Unless there be those around him, by whose example he may… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
While, politically, a mixed economy preserves the semblance of an organized society with a semblance of law and order, economically it is… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
If one fails to develop goals that give meaning to one’s existence, if one does not use the mind to it’s fullest,… — Dan Buettner Copy Share Image
It is worse for a liar to tell the truth than for a lover of truth to lie… There is a truth… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
The painter sees the semblance of things and repeats it. That is, without fabricating the things himself, he fabricates their semblance; and,… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
When asked if I am pessimistic or optimistic about the future, my answer is always the same: If you look at the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The manly pride of the Romans, content with substantial power, had left to the vanity of the East the forms and ceremonies… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
All my life long I have been sensible of the injustice constantly done to women. Since I have had to fight the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Without general elections, without unrestricted freedom of press and assembly, without a free struggle of opinion, life dies out in every public… — Rosa Luxemburg Copy Share Image
On the third day the friends of Christ coming at daybreak to the place found the grave empty and the stone rolled… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Humor has been a fashioning instrument in America, cleaving its way through the national life, holding tenaciously to the spread elements of… — Constance Rourke Copy Share Image
This generation may either be the last to exist in any semblance of a civilised world or that it will be the… — Richard St. Barbe Baker Copy Share Image
The challenges that young people are mobilizing against oppressive societies all over the globe are being met with a state-sponsored violence that… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
The fact of our deriving constant pleasure from whatever is a type or semblance of divine attributes, and from nothing but that… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
It was many years ago that I got out of a crewtruck in the national forest and ran toward a large glowing… — Travis Walton Copy Share Image
If thou art wise, incline to truth; for truth, not the semblance, remains in its place. — Saadi Copy Share Image
My pride and identity is wrapped up in my big trips. But I can't always be on one - I need to… — Andrew Skurka Copy Share Image
Trade unions have been an essential force for social change, without which a semblance of a decent and humane society is impossible… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
The heart of the hypocrite is hid in his breast he masketh his words in the semblance of truth, while the business… — Akhenaton Copy Share Image
I think one of the best things you can do is write really sad songs that touch some semblance of... I guess… — Eric Bachmann Copy Share Image
A teddy bear does not depend upon mechanics to give him the semblance of life. He is loved - and therefore he… — Pam Brown Copy Share Image
Fashion is the veriest goddess of semblance and of shade; to be happy is of far less consequence to her worshippers than… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Progress is always the product of fresh thinking, and much of it thinking which to practical men bears the semblance of dreaming. — Robert Gordon Sproul Copy Share Image
