We are like dwarfs [the moderns] sitting on the shoulders of giants [the ancients]. Our glance can thus take in more things… — Bernard of Chartres Copy Share Image
The bread of bitterness is the food on which men grow to their fullest stature; the waters of bitterness are the debatable… — Ouida Copy Share Image
It is naïve to suppose that the acceptance of evolution theory depends upon the evidence of a number of so-called "proofs"; it… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
The taboos that constitute a man's intellectual stature, often sedimented experiences and unarticulated insights, always operate against inner impulses that he has… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
Body armor is meant to fit snug to the body to stop shrapnel and absorb a bullet's impact. Armor designed for a… — Niki Tsongas Copy Share Image
When the meal was over we all had a quiet rest in our rooms and I meditated on the race. This is… — Gordon Pirie Copy Share Image
It does not matter that only a few in each generation will grasp and achieve the full reality of man's proper stature-and… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Man is like a tree. If you stand in front of a tree and watch it incessantly, to see how it grows,… — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
At some point I started getting published, and experienced a meager knock-kneed standing in the literary world, and I started to get… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
It is only people of small stature who have to stand on their dignity. — Arnold Bennett Copy Share Image
As his country crumbled around him, Fidel Castro's stature diminished abroad and at home. — Tom Gjelten Copy Share Image
Almost anyone who has ever attained any kind of public stature in his or her profession can expect sometimes to see a… — Louella Parsons Copy Share Image
Lincoln's stature and strength, his intelligence and ambition - in short, all the elements which gave him popularity among men in New… — John George Nicolay Copy Share Image
My motivation for running for Senate was not for the stature of being a senator, but because I wanted to make a… — Herman Cain Copy Share Image
“Has he written to you?' 'He writes frequently.' 'Shew me his letters this instant, I order you'; and M. de Renal added… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
Is the U.S. better or is the world better? Is the U.S. better off today than we were four years ago? Obviously… — Montel Williams Copy Share Image
To make judgements about great and lofty things, a soul of the same stature is needed; otherwise we ascribe to them that… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
As modern society is formed against the backdrop of a permanent war zone, a carceral state and hyper-militarism, the social stature of… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
In order to persuade Britain to pack up, to compel her to make peace, it was essential to rob her of her… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
One of the things that first attracted me to chess is that it brings you into contact with intelligent, civilized people -… — Magnus Carlsen Copy Share Image
But as for me, Emperor, nature has not given me stature, age has marred my face, and my strength is impaired by… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
Children are people, and they should have to reach to learn about things, to understand things, just as adults have to reach… — Walt Disney Copy Share Image
We must accept life for what it actually is - a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
If within the last century art conceived as an autonomous activity has come to be invested with an unprecedented stature - the… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Why are we never quite at ease in the presence of a schoolmaster? Because we are conscious that he is not quite… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
Arthur, with his keen blue eyes and hair of burnished gold, his ready smile and guileless countenance. Wide and heavy of shoulder,… — Stephen R. Lawhead Copy Share Image
Obama is clearly a narcissist in the non-scientific use of the word. He is so self-involved, you see it from his rise.There’s… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
It seems to me that the thing that makes the theater worthwhile is the fact that it attracts so many people with… — Brooks Atkinson Copy Share Image
I am very picky with my career. I don't need to do it for the money or the fame. I'm very choosy,… — Kellan Lutz Copy Share Image
Financial innovation can be highly dangerous, though almost no one will tell you this. New financial products are typically created for sunny… — Seth Klarman Copy Share Image
I believe that the Jews have made a contribution to the human condition out of all proportion to their numbers: I believe… — Peter Ustinov Copy Share Image
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