My eyes are vague blue, like the sky, and change all the time; they are indiscriminate but fleeting, entirely specific and disloyal,… — Frank O'Hara Copy Share Image
The traveller must, of course, always be cautious of the overly broad generalisation. But I am an American, and a paucity of… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
A politician must often talk and act before he has thought and read. He may be very ill informed respecting a question:… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
Boys have their soft and gentle moods too. You would suppose by the morning racket that nothing could be more foreign to… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Since I didn't spend a great amount of time on writing the lyrics, some people would argue that they're too vague or… — Jack Tatum Copy Share Image
Moreover, behind this vague tendency to treat religion as a side issue in modern life, there exists a strong body of opinion… — Christopher Dawson Copy Share Image
Solaristics, wrote Muntius, is a substitute for religion in the space age. It is faith wrapped in the cloak of science; contact,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The camera has an interest in turning history into spectacle, but none in reversing the process. At best, the picture leaves a… — Denis Donoghue Copy Share Image
It is not so much in buying pictures as in being pictures, that you can encourage a noble school. The best patronage… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Vague promises of savings from cutting waste, enhancing prevention and wellness, installing electronic medical records and improving quality are merely lipstick cost… — Ezekiel Emanuel Copy Share Image
But as Van casually directed the searchlight of backthought into that maze of the past where the mirror-lined narrow paths not only… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“While they prefer to avoid cracks and flaws, many choose to recalibrate their lives, weigh, and assess what they perceive. Distrusting vague… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
The concept of the "information society" is both vague and all-embracing. Different participants meant different things by it. In practice, though, World… — David Souter Copy Share Image
Children of God should not make a general confession by acknowledging their innumerable sins in a vague manner, because such confession does… — Watchman Nee Copy Share Image
I am far from any intention to limit curiosity, or confine the labours of learning to arts of immediate and necessary use.… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Return to Shaoshan I regret the passing, the dying, of the vague dream: my native orchards thirty-two years ago. Yet red banners… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
She envied Ralph his dying, for if one were thinking of rest that was the most perfect of all. To cease utterly,… — Henry James Copy Share Image
When we put the pen to paper, we articulate things in our life that we may have felt vague about. Before you… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
I cannot favour laws such as that of Idaho, which allows sterilization of 'mental defectives, epileptics, habitual criminals, moral degenerates, and sex… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Often, feelings of sadness, uneasiness, and loneliness are vague and unattached to specific events. This makes it more challenging to find ways… — G. Alan Marlatt Copy Share Image
A person talks in such generalities that everyone can understand him and it's considered to be some deep philosophy. However, I would… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
It is indubitable that a 50-year-old mathematician knows the mathematics he learned at 20 or 30, but has only notions, often rather… — Jean Dieudonne Copy Share Image
The knowledge that mankind needs is not the way or principle which has an absolute existence, but the particular truths for here… — Hu Shih Copy Share Image
We tried war, we tried aggression, we tried intervention. None of it works. Why don't we try peace, as a science of… — Dennis Kucinich Copy Share Image
We cannot sacrifice innocent human life now for vague and exaggerated promises of medical treatments thirty of forty years from now. There… — Ernest Istook Copy Share Image
I do have aspirations when it comes to directing, I suppose, but in a sort of a vague way. It would probably… — Guy Pearce Copy Share Image
There was a misconception about me when I started off because I had my hair greased up and I have some vague… — Chris Isaak Copy Share Image
I grew up in Alice, Texas, a small oil town with one theater that only showed Roy Rogers movies. So when I… — Lois Chiles Copy Share Image
By the time you kill and mount what you catch, it has lost that very thing that made it worth having. I… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
You really need to have that discipline. It's not even discipline. I just put down these rules. It's not like a vague,… — Kumail Nanjiani Copy Share Image
During the campaign for re-election, Barack Obama at least made vague references to a willingness to accept $3 trillion of reduced spending… — Bob Beauprez Copy Share Image
Jefferson found in the religion phrases of the First Amendment no vague or fuzzy language to be bent or shaped or twisted… — Edwin Gaustad Copy Share Image
A vague uncritical idealism always lends itself to ridicule and too much of it might be a danger to mankind, leading it… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
In the expressions we adopt to prescribe physical phenomena we necessarily hover between two extremes. We either have to choose a word… — Arthur Schuster Copy Share Image
You know... that a blank wall is an apalling thing to look at... The wall of a museum - a canvas -… — Edward Steichen Copy Share Image
The average, vague understanding of being can be permeated by traditional theories and opinions about being in such a way that these… — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
The idea of freedom is quite in accord with a general, though vague, sentiment among us; it is an idea of fair… — Charles Horton Cooley Copy Share Image
My muse is my wife. It's not some vague thing that flutters around the astrosphere or wherever it is. Sometimes as a… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
The feedback women are getting at work is amazingly ineffective or vague. You need to signal to your boss or senior colleagues… — Sylvia Ann Hewlett Copy Share Image
The hands that help are better far / Than lips that pray. / Love is the ever gleaming star / That leads… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
