To believe in 'the greater good' is to operate, necessarily, in a certain ethical suspension. — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
Good composition is like a suspension bridge - each line adds strength and takes none away. — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
(on Warner Brothers) This studio has more suspensions than the Golden Gate Bridge. — Humphrey Bogart Copy Share Image
Faith means the purposeful suspension of critical thinking. It’s nothing to be admired. — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
Suspension of disbelief and that whole question is part of the heart of the 'Leaves of Grass'movie. — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
My writing time needs to surround itself with empty stretches, or at least unpeopled ones, for the writing takes place in an… — Maxine Kumin Copy Share Image
It's absolutely fine when Wile E. Coyote walks in with a band-aid on his head, after a 3,000-pound rock is dropped on… — Johnny Depp Copy Share Image
Any suggestion that the most open and diverse society on the planet is likely to in any way resemble Russia requires a… — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
Other people singing my songs is something that I've never been casual about. I've always been very touched by it and I… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
He felt himself in suspension between the two worlds, the warm, neat civilization behind his back, the cool, dark mystery outside. We… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
What is essential here is the presence of the spirit of dialogue, which is in short, the ability to hold many points… — David Copy Share Image
I want to regard my public as infinitely intelligent, as understanding notions of the suspension of disbelief and as realising all the… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
The infrastructure of the US is a long-term suspension of disbelief that such things won't be exploded deliberately by people who don't… — Dave Winer Copy Share Image
Waiting is a large part of living. Great, passive, negative chunks of our time are consumed by waiting, from birth to death.… — Ada Louise Huxtable Copy Share Image
The first time I thought about attempting a body suspension was after watching a documentary on rites-of-passage ceremonies from other cultures. I… — Criss Angel Copy Share Image
One thing that does seem to me to be fairly consistent is that presidents who restrict civil liberties, even in wartime, are… — David Greenberg Copy Share Image
“To wait for someone else, or to expect someone else to make my life richer, or fuller, or more satisfying, puts me… — Karen Casey Copy Share Image
One of my favorite moments is onstage, when you see a dancer leap, and you think they're flying, and then they fall.… — Cate Blanchett Copy Share Image
Somewhere between the ages of eleven and fifteen, the average child begins to suffer from an atrophy, the paralysis of curiosity and… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
We're getting to the point where we're impinging on democratic institutions in this country and I think, you know, it takes a… — William Weld Copy Share Image
What the ordinary person means by a 'miracle' is some gross distortion or suspension of the laws of nature... but life itself… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
Faith always presented to the mind the idea of an abnormal intellectual condition, of the subversion or suspension of the critical faculties.… — William Edward Hartpole Lecky Copy Share Image
Suddenly it makes sense again. In no haze of mindfulness, staring down at this snow-covered quilt of America, I am the stars… — Andrew McMahon Copy Share Image
Why suspend the habeas corpus in insurrections and rebellions? Examine the history of England. See how few of the cases of the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The art of the writer, like that of the player, is attained by slow degrees. The power of distinguishing and discriminating comick… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
[Science fiction is] that class of prose narrative treating of a situation that could not arise in the world we know, but… — Kingsley Amis Copy Share Image
Another error is an impatience of doubt and haste to assertion without due and mature suspension of judgment. For the two ways… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
I definitely prefer the single camera better. For me it's the simple fact that I enjoy working in front of an audience,… — Jonathan Groff Copy Share Image
Learning to pause is the first step in the practice of Radical Acceptance. A pause is a suspension of activity, a time… — Tara Brach Copy Share Image
RECONCILIATION, n. A suspension of hostilities. An armed truce for the purpose of digging up the dead. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
I accept my punishment and will begin serving my suspension immediately. — Chris Davis Copy Share Image
The more you can create that magic bubble, that suspension of disbelief, for a while, the better. — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
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