In science one must search for ideas. If there are no ideas, there is no science. A knowledge of facts is only… — Vissarion Belinsky Copy Share Image
Loud wind, strong wind, sweeping o'er the mountains, Fresh wind, free wind, blowing from the sea, Pour forth thy vials like streams… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Copy Share Image
The present assault upon capital is but the beginning. It will be but a stepping-stone to others, larger and more sweeping, till… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In the late 60's I was enrolled at Occidental College majoring in philosophy and taking several studio art classes, but I dropped… — Stephen Beal Copy Share Image
It is not the rich man's son that the young struggler for advancement has to fear in the race for life, nor… — Andrew Carnegie Copy Share Image
I've had to make the transition from sweeping in for 15 minutes, doing my stuff and clearing out, to carrying a movie… — Philip Seymour Hoffman Copy Share Image
Sweeping gestures from the shoulder allow you to make generous marks, well suited to large scale work. You don't get anything simpler… — Stan Smith Copy Share Image
I assemble stories-me and a hundred million other people-at the sentence level. Not by coming up with a sweeping story line. — Amy Hempel Copy Share Image
We are to remember what an umpire Nature is; what a greatness, composure of depth and tolerance there is in her. You… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
You have a freckle here," he whispered, sweeping his tongue over a spot just under my jaw. "It drives me crazy every… — Tammara Webber Copy Share Image
In the west, Apollo and Dionysus strive for victory. Apollo makes the boundary lines that are civilization but that lead to convention,… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Before getting to my mother's house, I would always think of her on the porch or even on the street, sweeping. She… — Reinaldo Arenas Copy Share Image
A waft of wind came sweeping down the laurel-walk, and trembled through the boughs of the chestnut: it wandered away-away-to an indefinite… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
Can you hear the dreams crackling like a campfire? Can you hear the dreams sweeping through the pine trees and tipis? Can… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
While historians may go on attempting grand, sweeping and defining narratives, they work in a time when readers know that another narrative… — Colm Toibin Copy Share Image
His view of the world is one that keeps his blood pressure low, sweeping the cholesterol from his relaxed, freeway-sized arteries. Everyone… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
Auschwitz is outside of us, but it is all around us, in the air. The plague has died away, but the infection… — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
“A book about books is like a poem about poetry: Books are knowledge, paid for, all. Readers - horses in a stall.… — Will Advise Copy Share Image
Each state of the human mind has some parable in the physical creation by which it is shadowed forth; nor is it… — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
The scientific attitude of mind involves a sweeping away of all other desires in the interests of the desire to know-it involves… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The educated man pictures a horde of submen, wanting only a day's liberty to loot his house, burn his books, and set… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Recreation in the open is of the finest grade. The moral benefits are all positive. The individual with any soul cannot live… — Arthur Carhart Copy Share Image
The breezes of the West African night were intimate and shy, licking the hair, sweeping through cotton dresses with unseemly intimacy, then… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
In my reading of philosophy, I saw that there were innumerable problems that nobody was giving answers for. the Bible, it struck… — Francis Schaeffer Copy Share Image
The same law that shapes the earth-star shapes the snow-star. As surely as the petals of a flower are fixed, each of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Not since before Roe v. Wade has a law or court decision had the potential to devastate access to reproductive health care… — Nancy Northup Copy Share Image
If income tax is the price you have to pay to keep the government on its feet, alimony is the price we… — Groucho Marx Copy Share Image
What is needed now is a transformation of the major systems of production more profound than even the sweeping post-World War II… — Barry Commoner Copy Share Image
My mind shrank from the menace sweeping down on us, as children's do from belief in death and misfortune, vainly clinging to… — Sylvia Pankhurst Copy Share Image
The Grecian’s maxim would indeed be a sweeping clause in Literature; it would reduce many a giant to a pygmy; many a… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
What do I geek out about? What am I? Hmmm. I love movies. I watch movies. I like big, sweeping epics, like… — Chris Evans Copy Share Image
They say if u wanna get married and someone is sweeping the floor and they sweep ur feet on a accident u… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Making sweeping statements such as 'no sweets ever again' has never worked before, and it's not going to work now. You'll get… — Jude Bijou Copy Share Image
I made a dollar a day sweeping a laundry out. Then we made a record that was number two in Los Angeles.… — Dennis Wilson Copy Share Image
Lovely are the curves of the white owl sweeping Wavy in the dusk lit by one large star. Lone on the fir-branch,… — George Meredith Copy Share Image
The American agenda is sweeping everything before it, and although it's not perfect, the EU is better on environmental issues. It's a… — Ken Livingstone Copy Share Image
Journalists like to say I started off sweeping the pottery floors. But it was just a short-lived part time job doing that… — John Caudwell Copy Share Image
On the same day I was sworn in as Prime Minister of Canada, I announced the most sweeping reform ever undertaken in… — Kim Campbell Copy Share Image
Paul straightened, raking Elijah with a sweeping glance. “I’ve never seen a lycan shift so fast.” “Betcha never seen a lycan who’s… — Sylvia Day Copy Share Image
The bustle in a house The morning after death Is solemnest of industries Enacted upon earth,-- The sweeping up the heart, And… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
