To live is not to breathe but to act. It is to make use of our organs, our senses, our faculties, of… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Literature is the voice of the age and the state; the character, energy, and resources of the country are reflected and imaged… — Edward Everett Copy Share Image
Said an opponent to me after my last protest was sent in, what party would you vote for, if you could? Neither.… — Harriot Kezia Hunt Copy Share Image
What Congress and the popular sentiment approve is rarely defeated by reason of constitutional objections. I trust the measure will turn out… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
The friendship of fine-hearted, generous boys, nurtured amid the romance-engendering comforts and elegancies of life, sometimes transcends the bounds of mere boyishness,… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Of all ennobling sentiments, patriotism may be the most easily manipulated. On the one hand, it gives powerful expression to what is… — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
I didn't want to give the white reader an opportunity to think of racism as imaginary - a sentiment that is already… — Vivek Shraya Copy Share Image
The highest condition of the religious sentiment is when. . . the worshiper not only sees God everywhere, but sees nothing which… — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
There is always in the healthy mind an obscure prompting that religion teaches us rather to dig than to climb; that if… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Manchester is a city which has witnessed a great many stirring episodes, especially of a political character. Generally speaking, its citizens have… — Emmeline Pankhurst Copy Share Image
Sex becomes violent when you eliminate all the sentiments... voila, it gets crude. — Bruno Dumont Copy Share Image
A more secret, sweet, and overpowering beauty appears to man when his heart and mind open to the sentiment of virtue. Then… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The things that the flag stands for were created by the experiences of a great people. Everything that it stands for was… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
The fact is, Scripture is filled with divine actions that don't fit our human standards of logic or morality. But they don't… — Francis Chan Copy Share Image
If sentiment doesn't ultimately make fibbers of some people, their natural abominable memories almost certainly will. — J. D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“A mind can be empty of thoughts but a heart cannot be void of feelings.” — Raheel Farooq Copy Share Image
It is the duty of all men in society, publicly, and at stated seasons, to worship the SUPREME BEING, the great Creator… — John Adams Copy Share Image
I grew up with sentiments such as, "Do what will make you happy, troubles are God's redirections that something good will come… — Bernie Siegel Copy Share Image
Frivolity, under whatever form it appears, deprives attention of its power, thought of its originality, and sentiment of its depth. — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
There has been a controversy started of late, much better worth examination, concerning the general foundation of Morals; whether they be derived… — David Hume Copy Share Image
At least since the first petals of the counterculture bloomed across Europe and the United States in the 1960s, it has been… — Stephen Prothero Copy Share Image
I have this very moment finished reading a novel called The Vicar of Wakefield [by Oliver Goldsmith].... It appears to me, to… — Fanny Burney Copy Share Image
There is something about guitars—maybe something magical—when played right, which evokes past, mysterious, barely-conscious sentiments, both individual and universal. — John Fahey Copy Share Image
