Capacious Quotes

16 quotes by 16 authors

Why should a novelist not also be a historian? To force unnatural divisions within the English language is to work against its capacious and accommodating… — Peter Ackroyd
A comparably capacious embrace of beauty and pleasure - an embrace that somehow extends to death as well as life, to dissolution as well as… — Stephen Greenblatt
I like you and your book, ingenious Hone! In whose capacious all-embracing leaves The very marrow of tradition 's shown; And all that history, much… — Charles Lamb
In first place we must observe that the universe is spherical. This is either because that figure is the most perfect, as not being articulated,… — Nicolaus Copernicus
At one time, the earth was supposed to be flat. Well, so it is, even today, from Paris to Asnieres. But that fact doesn't prevent… — Vincent Van Gogh
Collective freedom provides the basic conditions for people to narrate their own lives, hold power accountable, and embrace a capacious notion of human dignity. — Henry Giroux
When humans act like animals, they become the most dangerous of animals to themselves and other humans, and this is because of another critical difference… — Wendell Berry
Fate with impartial hand turns out the doom of high and low; her capacious urn is constantly shaking the names of all mankind. — Horace
You left me boundaries of pain Capacious as the sea, Between eternity and time, Your consciousness and me. — Emily Dickinson
Ourselves are cosmic and capacious beyond conjecture, and to experience some notion of the planetary perspective is the richest income from travelling. It takes all… — Amos Bronson Alcott
I have found that, in the composition of the human body as compared with the bodies of animals, the organs of sense are duller and… — Leonardo da Vinci
Why should I cumber myself with regrets that the receiver is not capacious? It never troubles the sun that some of his rays fall wide… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Suppose within each book there is another book, and within every letter on every page another volume constantly unfolding; but these volumes take no space… — Hilary Mantel
There comes an end to all things; the most capacious measure is filled at last; and this brief condescension to evil finally destroyed the balance… — Robert Louis Stevenson
I do not have, nor do I believe I have seen, a vision capacious and convincing enough to propound as an organizing principle for the… — Laurence Tribe
Cultivate the frontal portion of her brain as much as that of man is cultivated, and she will stand his equal at least. Even now,… — Ernestine Rose

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