A touchstone to determine the actual worth of an "intellectual" - find out how he feels about astrology. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Compassion is the litmus test and culminating touchstone of a spirituality of Earth. — James Conlon Copy Share Image
In a secularising world, art has replaced religion as a touchstone of our reverence and devotion. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
A child's hand in yours - what tenderness and power it arouses. You are instantly the very touchstone of wisdom and strength. — Marjorie Holmes Copy Share Image
Over the years, a lot of rappers - Lil' Wayne, Ice Cube - have used my name in their songs. I'm a… — Rodney King Copy Share Image
The more pity, that fools may not speak wisely what wise men do foolishly. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The touchstone of false friends is the day of need: by way of proof, ask a loan from your friends. — Saib Tabrizi Copy Share Image
The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures. — George Meredith Copy Share Image
Tyler Perry's brand is faith, family and this whole thing that I've built, while my company, 34th Street Films, is like Disney's… — Tyler Perry 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
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
If I know what something's about, and I can always have that touchstone, I feel like I can reach for really ridiculous… — Scott Snyder 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
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
Death is so genuine a fact that it excludes falsehoods, or betrays its emptiness; it is a touchstone that proves the gold,… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Art establishes the basic human truths which must serve as the touchstones of our judgement. The artist... faithful to his personal vision… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
The source of each accordant strain Lies deeper than the Poet's brain. First from the people's heart must spring The passions which… — Bayard Taylor 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
For me, reggae music and its aesthetic are touchstones in both simple and complex ways. Reggae's capacity to be a folk music… — Kwame Dawes Copy Share Image
Every man carries about him a touchstone, if he will make use of it, to distinguish substantial gold from superficial glitterings, truth… — John Locke Copy Share Image
Working- and Middle-class families sat down at the dinner table every night - the shared meal was the touchstone of good manners.… — Larry McMurtry Copy Share Image
Sit not down without assurance. Get alone, and bring thy heart to the bar of trial; force it to answer the interrogatories… — Richard Baxter Copy Share Image
I want to live darkly and richly in my femaleness. I want a man lying over me, always over me. His will,… — Anais Nin 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
The measure of our mindfulness, the touchstone for sanity in this society, is our level of productivity, our attention to responsibility, our… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
Most things are forgotten over time. Even the war itself, the life-and-death struggle people went through is now like something from the… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Most things are forgotten over time. Even the war itself, the life-and-death struggle people went through, is now like something from the… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
For honesty coupled to beauty, is to have honey a sauce to sugar. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
