Most expositions of Aristotle's doctrines, when they have not been dictated by a spirit of virulent detraction, or unsympathetic indifference, have carefully… — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
They gutted the book, making an action movie for 15-25 year olds. Tolkien became...devoured by his popularity and absorbed by the absurdity… — Christopher Tolkien Copy Share Image
I'm not a religious person. I don't have any desire. To me it's imitative of a conventional culture. I'm all for it… — Lily Tomlin Copy Share Image
I learned, too, how it was possible with the help of the picture and action to transform an apparently insignificant violin passage… — Anton Seidl Copy Share Image
I think there are a number of reasons, not least of which is the personality of the Queen [ Elizabeth II]. It's… — Bob Hawke Copy Share Image
I don't want any colour to be noticeable... I don't want it to operate in the modernist sense as colour, something independent...… — Lucian Freud Copy Share Image
The Oriental philosophy approaches easily loftier themes than the modern aspires to; and no wonder if it sometimes prattle about them. It… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Nay, are there many situations more sublimely tragic than the struggle of the soul with the demand to renounce a work which… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
If 'god' is a metaphysical term, then it cannot be even probable that a god exists. For to say that 'God exists'… — A.J. Ayer Copy Share Image
And people who do not know the Lord ask why in the world we waste our lives as missionaries. They forget that… — Nate Saint Copy Share Image
I dislike the phrase ‘Internet friends,’ because it implies that people you know online aren’t really your friends, that somehow the friendship… — John Green Copy Share Image
“It's not about outward appearances but inward significance. A grandeur in the world, but not of the world, a grandeur that the… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
My kitchen is a mystical place, a kind of temple for me. It is a place where the surfaces seem to have… — Pearl Bailey Copy Share Image
“This was Beethoven’s great significance, not through form or musical language, but in recalibrating what music was for. Single-handedly he turned it… — Howard Goodall Copy Share Image
I know I can not paint a flower, I can not paint the sun on the desert on a bright summer morning… — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
In achieving the depersonalization of childbirth and at the same time solving the problem of pain, our society may have lost more… — Sheila Kitzinger Copy Share Image
The word 'Italy' is a geographical expression, a description which is useful shorthand, but has none of the political significance the efforts… — Klemens von Metternich Copy Share Image
All peoples are struggling to blast a way through the industrial monopoly of races and nations, but the Negro as a whole… — Marcus Garvey Copy Share Image
I have never collected an object or figure from Africa or Oceania because of anything curious about it or because of its… — Frank Crowninshield Copy Share Image
The chief significance of Alpha Phi Alpha lies in its purpose to stimulate, develop, and cement an intelligent, trained leadership in the… — Jewel Copy Share Image
... no scientific worker has a fixed level of significance at which from year to year, and in all circumstances, he rejects… — Ronald Fisher Copy Share Image
A wedding isn't for the bride and groom, it's for the family and friends. The B. and G. are just props, silly… — Susan Cheever Copy Share Image
This high proportion of history's decisive campaigns, the significance of which is enhanced by the comparative rarity of the direct approach, enforces… — B. H. Liddell Hart Copy Share Image
When we depend on anything smaller than God to provide us with the security, significance, meaning, and value that we long for,… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
Tomorrow and plans for tomorrow can have no significance at all unless you are in full contact with the reality of the… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Truth needs meditative eyes. If you don't have meditative eyes, then the whole life is just dull dead facts, unrelated to each… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
My pictures are devoid of objects; like objects, they are themselves objects. This means that they are devoid of content, significance or… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
“Haven’t you grasped the significance of this discovery? In the Telluric Navel you place the most powerful valve, which enables you to… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
It is that happy stretch of time when the lovers set to chronicling their passion. When no glance, no tone of voice… — Ahdaf Soueif Copy Share Image
There's something that intervenes and is very important which has to do with value. Value in the true biological sense, which is… — Antonio Damasio Copy Share Image
I believe that without looking at each other as rivals or as competitors, in a democratic India, operating in the framework of… — Manmohan Singh Copy Share Image
But, actually, so many of the clerics that I've met, particularly the Church of England clerics, are people of such extraordinary smugness… — Rowan Atkinson Copy Share Image
No one fully understands spinors. Their algebra is formally understood but their general significance is mysterious. In some sense they describe the… — Michael Atiyah Copy Share Image
The assumption that animals are without rights, and the illusion that our treatment of them has no moral significance, is a positively… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
For the person trying to do everything alone, the game really is over. If you want to do something big, you must… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
In my opinion, neither organisms nor organizations evolve slowly and surely into something better, but drift until some small change occurs which… — Edwin Land Copy Share Image
I've praised Obama's record on same-sex equality as enthusiastically as anyone: it's one area where his record has been impressive. I understand,… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
There can be no reproach to pain unless we assume human dignity, there is no reason for restraints on pleasure unless we… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
A stage set should not make a pretty picture of its own. The empty stage should look formal and pleasing, but should… — G. Wilson Knight Copy Share Image
Much is missed if we have eyes only for the bright colors. Nature should be viewed without distinction... She makes no choice… — Eliot Porter Copy Share Image