The more pity, that fools may not speak wisely what wise men do foolishly. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
What a conception of art must those theorists have who exclude portraits from the proper province of the fine arts! It is… — August Wilhelm von Schlegel Copy Share Image
That's why we feel so disoriented, irritated even, when these touchstones from our past are altered. We don't like it when our… — Eric Weiner Copy Share Image
By 'socialism' I mean a classless society in which the State has disappeared, production is cooperative, and no man has political or… — Dwight Macdonald Copy Share Image
One of the goals of life is to try and be in touch with one's most personal themes-the values, the ideas, styles,… — Gloria Vanderbilt Copy Share Image
The American people have got a touchstone: Which party voted for the tools necessary to protect America and which party didn't? And… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
At the heart of that western freedom and democracy is the belief that the individual man...is the touchstone of value, and all… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
Like many other touchstones of twenty-first-century pop culture, 'The Sopranos' was hatched in the late Nineties, predicting a future that never arrived.… — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
Panics, in some cases, have their uses; they produce as much good as hurt. Their duration is always short; the mind soon… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Experience is, for me, the highest authority. The touchstone of validity is my own experience. No other person's ideas, and none of… — Carl Rogers Copy Share Image
the touchstone of a free act - from the decision to get out of bed in the morning or take a walk… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
I don't write songs that don't affect me on some level, because I figure if I am not moved by it, if… — Amy Grant Copy Share Image
My touchstone is just fear and anxiety and I know a lot about those two awful emotions. — Chris Pine Copy Share Image
Black women are the touchstone by which all that is human can be measured. — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
The ultimate touchstone of friendship is not improvement, neither of the other nor of the self: the ultimate touchstone is witness, the… — David Whyte Copy Share Image
Jesus tells us what the 'protocol' is, on which we will be judged. It is the one we read in chapter 25… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Validity is the touchstone of inference, and truth of judgment: the fact that vichyssoise is cold ratifies the judgment that vichyssoise is,… — David Berlinski Copy Share Image
Do certain events in our lives leave a permanent mark, freezing a piece of us in time, and that becomes a touchstone… — Mary E. Pearson Copy Share Image
The question of art songs always came up with Gastr del Sol. I think Jim O'Rourke had it right in being clear… — David Grubbs Copy Share Image
And, looking on it with lack-lustre eye, Says very wisely, "It is ten o'clock: Thus we may see," quoth he, "how the… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The model for me is a touchstone, it is a door which I must break open in order to reach the garden… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
