The missionary is no longer a man, a conscience. He is a corpse, in the hands of a confraternity, without family, without… — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
The reason why so few good books are written is, that so few people that can write know anything. In general an… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
A mother is a blend of strength and survivorship, experience and insight, fancy and reflection. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There's no greater tragedy than an equal intensity, in the same soul or the same man, of the intellectual sentiment and the… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
In a democratic society, as Max Weber said, what is possible is only possible because some people have demanded the impossible. The… — Eric Foner Copy Share Image
A mother is neither cocky nor proud because she knows the school principle may call at any minute to report that her… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Someone with a fresh mind, one not conditioned by upbringing and environment, would doubtless look at science and the powerful reductionism that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Artists have no less talents than ever, their taste, their vision, their sentiment are often interesting; they are mighty in their independence… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
A full-dressed ecclesiastic is a sort of go-cart of divinity; an ethical automaton. A clerical prig is, in general, a very dangerous… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
“The philosophy that prepares a revolution and the sentiment that underpins the philosophy have, in every case the two pillars of nihilism… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
The campaign against polygamy, around which a lot of anti-Mormon sentiment was organized, seems horrific to me. — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
Many priests say that retirement is more identified with freedom from meetings, budgets, personnel conflicts, and "dealing with the Chancery." Even as… — Wilton Daniel Gregory Copy Share Image
Given a blank we can’t help trying to fill it in along lines of customary seeing or saying. But the best poetic… — Heather McHugh Copy Share Image
Poetry does not consist of words alone; there must be sentiment and fancy, combination and arrangement. — Samuel Prout Copy Share Image
As not every instance of similitude can be considered as a proof of imitation, so not every imitation ought to be stigmatised… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Poems infatuated with their own smarts and detached from any emotional grounding can leave the reader feeling lonely, empty and ashamed for… — Tracy K. Smith Copy Share Image
Revenge is a way of life and definitely some thing that we identify with. We all feel cheated in some way about… — Radha Mitchell Copy Share Image
If I should go out of church whenever I hear a false sentiment, I could never stay there five minutes. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The secret of attraction is to love yourself. Attractive people judge neither themselves nor others. They are open to gestures of love.… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
The policy of dollar diplomacy is one that appeals alike to idealistic humanitarian sentiments, to dictates of sound policy, and strategy, and… — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
It is with a rush of home-sickness that the thought of death presents itself.... Such sentiment is the eternal stock of all… — Walter Pater Copy Share Image
What I wanted was to die among strangers, untroubled, beneath a cloudless sky. And yet my desire differed from the sentiments of… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
Some people will tell you there is a great deal of poetry and fine sentiment in a chest of tea. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
