Society is a more level surface than we imagine. Wise men or absolute fools are hard to be met with, as there… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The single biggest change in middle-distance running, from the 1500 metres to 10,000 metres, has been the track surface. — Herb Elliott Copy Share Image
It's not unusual to find big political shifts that take place beneath the surface before they're visible above the surface. — Al Gore Copy Share Image
Comedy deflates the sense precisely so that the underlying lubricity and malice may bubble to the surface. — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
A few feet under the ground reigns so profound a silence, and yet so much tumult on the surface! — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
There's another world out there just beyond the world we're in. It's just on the other side of that translucent, semitransparent surface. — Bill Viola Copy Share Image
We with our lives are like islands in the sea... The islands also hang together through the ocean's bottom. — William James Copy Share Image
All you'll get from strangers is surface pleasantry or indifference. Only someone who loves you will criticize you. — Judith Crist Copy Share Image
Let it them be put into any clean oven vessel of china or stoneware which should be wider at the top than… — James Lind Copy Share Image
If things look right on the surface the underside is rarely questioned. However, things may be great in reality, but if one… — Aleatha Romig Copy Share Image
The modern airplane creates a new geographical dimension. A navigable ocean of air blankets the whole surface of the globe. There are… — Wendell Willkie Copy Share Image
As trans advocacy has institutionalized and developed, the context of the undemocratic nature of US non-profits and the ways that white, wealthy… — Dean Spade Copy Share Image
I believe that photography can only reproduce the surface of things. The same applies to a portrait. I take photographs of people… — Thomas Ruff Copy Share Image
The attributes of God, though intelligible to us on their surface yet, for the very reason that they are infinite, transcend our… — John Henry Newman Copy Share Image
Ideas are so much flat psychological surface unless some mirrored matter gives them cognitive lustre. This is why as a pragmatistI have… — William James Copy Share Image
The essence of religion is the knowledge of God which is eternal life. That and nothing less than that is religion. Everything… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
And yet we constantly reclaim some part of that primal spontaneity through the youngest among us, not only through their sorrow and… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“If you draw the full length of the blade through the fish in one gentle sweep, the resulting cross section is smooth… — Tetsu Kariya Copy Share Image
“The wise man believes profoundly in silence, the sign of a perfect equilibrium. Silence is the absolute poise or balance of body,… — Charles Alexander Eastman Copy Share Image
For although nepenthe has calmed me, I know always that I am an outsider; a stranger in this century and among those… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When you look at some faces, you can see the turbulence of the infinite beginning to gather to the surface. This moment… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
I know, perhaps as well as anyone, what depression means, and what it is to feel myself sinking lower and lower. Yet… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
What's it like, Lexy? You wake up and you feel - what? Heaviness, an ache inside, a weight, yes. A soft crumpling… — Carolyn Parkhurst Copy Share Image
Storytelling is more like a skin. You start with the outermost layer, what it's going to look like, then you kind of… — Charlie Jane Anders Copy Share Image
We get discouraged sometimes when people look at surface only and neglect the message. — Dawn Angelique Copy Share Image
No emotions are bad. But if they stay for long, then it is bad. Emotions should be like a line drawn on… — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Copy Share Image
Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience. — Randolph Bourne Copy Share Image
You have no idea how unimportant is all that the teacher says or does not say on the surface, and how important… — Rudolf Steiner Copy Share Image
When the time comes that a man has had his dinner, then the true man comes to the surface — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
No matter how horrid a person may appear on the surface, if you dig deeper, you will find some nice, unexpected little… — Brooke Astor Copy Share Image
I'm strong on the surface, not all the way through. I've never been perfect, but neither have you. — Linkin Park Copy Share Image
The camera can't see space. It sees surfaces. People see space, which is much more interesting. — David Hockney Copy Share Image
Here, beside this great black surface that is my desk, I feel as though I am on a desert island. — Etty Hillesum Copy Share Image
What an awful thing life is, isn’t it? It’s like soup with lots of hairs floating on the surface. You have to… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Realize that the surface personality has no interest in anything which might disturb its darling delusions. — Vernon Howard Copy Share Image
I don’t abstract from anything.…I am involved with real space, the room itself, real light, and real surface. — Robert Ryman Copy Share Image
No one in this country has any root anywhere; we don't live in America, we board here, we are like spiders that… — Van Wyck Brooks Copy Share Image
Students present themselves...like a succession of CDs whose shimmering surface gives no clue to their contents without the equipment to play them. — John Updike Copy Share Image
Clear communication between selves - the surface self and the deep self - is the enemy of self-doubt. It slays confusion. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“The surface world may be as much a myth to the subterraneans as the underworld is to us.” — Priscilla Vogelbacher Copy Share Image
