The only kind of sublimity which a painter or sculptor should aim at is to express by certain proportions and positions of… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
When the reality of power has been surrendered, it's playing a dangerous game to seek to retain the appearance of it; the… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
We look at the dance to impart the sensation of living in an affirmation of life, to energize the spectator into keener… — Martha Graham Copy Share Image
Thou mayest as well expect to grow stronger by always eating as wiser by always reading. Too much overcharges Nature, and turns… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
The linguistic clumsiness of tourists and students might be the price we pay for the linguistic genius we displayed as babies, just… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Satire, whilst envy and ill-humor sway The mind of man, must always make her way; Nor to a bosom, with discretion fraught,… — Charles Churchill Copy Share Image
Plants of great vigor will almost always struggle into blossom, despite impediments. But there should be encouragement, and a free genial atmosphere… — Margaret Fuller Copy Share Image
Do not be afraid because the, community teems with excitement. Silence and death are dreadful. The rush of life, the vigor of… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
A race preserves its vigor so long as it harbors a real contrast between what has been and what may be; and… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Look here we shall die! Bear this in mind always & then the spirit within will wake up. Only then will meanness… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Youth is the spirit of adventure and awakening. It is a time of physical emerging when the body attains the vigor and… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
On the set you just have to listen very closely, listen to everyone around you, absorb everything and try to be what… — Joan Leslie Copy Share Image
What sun is there within us that shoots his rays with so sudden a vigor? To see the soul flash in the… — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image
It is a medical fact that children can have a better chance in life with better looks, better health and more vigor… — George Eastman Copy Share Image
The mind, by its very nature, persistently tries to live forever, resisting age and attempting to give itself a form... . When… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
Those people who are always improving never become great. Greatness is an eminence, the ascent to which is steep and lofty, and… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Corrupt influence is itself the perennial spring of all prodigality, and of all disorder; it loads us more than millions of debt;… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Ah, afflicted one, your disabilities were meant to unite with God's enablings, your weakness to mate His power. God's grace is at… — F.B. Meyer Copy Share Image
There is no doubt of the essential nobility of that man who pours into life the honest vigor of his toil, over… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
In European thought in general, as contrasted with American, vigor, life and originality have a kind of easy, professional utterance. American --… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
Exercise ferments the humors, casts them into their proper channels, throws off redundancies, and helps nature in those secret distributions, without which… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Few things are sadder than encountering a person who knows exactly what he should do, yet cannot muster enough energy to do… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
Baseball is the exponent of American Courage, Confidence, Combativeness, American Dash, Discipline, Determination, American Energy, Eagerness, Enthusiasm, American Pluck, Persistency, Performance, American… — Albert Goodwill Spalding Copy Share Image
It is in vain to dream of a wildness distant from ourselves. There is none such. It is the bog in our… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Today is an opportunity to do something positive. Today is your chance to add new value to your life and to your… — Ralph Marston Copy Share Image
[T]he great American statesman devotes his energy, ability, and wisdom to conforming himself and this people to the moral principles that gave… — Alan Keyes Copy Share Image
If physical exercise were combined with mental exertion, the blood would be quickened in its circulation, the action of the heart would… — Ellen G. White Copy Share Image
I love art, and I love history, but it is living art and living history that I love. It is in the… — William Morris Copy Share Image
In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion; in order to serve others better, one… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
To grasp organizational life as it is, read novels (!) … It is my fervent belief that we will never design rational… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
The influence of prayer on the human mind and body is as demonstrable as that of secreting glands. Its results can be… — Alexis Carrel Copy Share Image
Yoo's theory promotes frank discussion of the national interest and makes it harder for politicians to parade policy conflicts as constitutional crises.… — David B. Rivkin Copy Share Image
Plants are the young of the world, vessels of health and vigor; but they grope ever upward towards consciousness; the trees are… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A flower's fragrance declares to all the world that it is fertile, available, and desirable, its sex organs oozing with nectar. Its… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
Perhaps it won't matter, in the end, which country is the sower of the seed of exploration. The importance will be in… — Neil Armstrong Copy Share Image
Facts are to the mind what food is to the body. On the due digestion of the former depend the strength and… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
The very uprightness of the pines and maples asserts the ancient rectitude and vigor of nature. Our lives need the relief of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
What sort of tree is there which will not, if neglected, grow crooked and unfruitful; what but Will, if rightly ordered, prove… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
This is the equivalent of an “internal shower”. As the spring freshness born of the heavy rains and vast masses of melting… — Joseph Pilates Copy Share Image
The strength of an individual is not in his extreme freedom and libertine lifestyle, but in the stalwartness of his character and… — Ali Sina Copy Share Image