Corrective Quotes

46 quotes by 42 authors

I am glad that the country world...retains a power to use our English tongue. It is a part of its sense of reality, of its… — Henry Beston
What is the cat?" he exclaimed. "It is a corrective. God, having made the mouse, said, 'I've made a blunder.' And he made the cat.… — Victor Hugo
Several of the energy companies want to do the right thing. It's a matter of leveling the playing field though for them and that's why… — Ed Royce
Philosophy is a corrective against sadness. Yet there still are people who believe in the profundity of philosophy! — Emile M. Cioran
What Joe Hamilton lacked more than anything else in the world was some one to kick him. Many a man who might have lived decently… — Paul Laurence Dunbar
The world gets older, without getting either better or worse and so does literature. But I do think that the drab current phenomenon that passes… — Harold Bloom
Chinese landscape paintings often include tiny figures - as if to emphasize the grandeur of nature of which humankind is one small part. Think of… — Barbara Ann Kipfer
Light itself is a great corrective. A thousand wrongs and abuses that are grown in darkness disappear, like owls and bats, before the light of… — James A. Garfield
Christopher Ryan and Cacilda Jetha have written the essential corrective to the evolutionary psychology literature... — Stanton Peele
An interval of meditation, serious and grateful, was the best corrective of everything dangerous in such a high-wrought felicity; and she went to her room,… — Jane Austen
To offer women something that feels more about investing in something and less about being disposable is a complete corrective to the world we live… — Phoebe Philo
A nervous excitability, a chronic exaltation of the passion, in which commingle the inferior life of the individual and its exterior manifestations, a state in… — Kadmi Cohen
Today's Constitution is a realistic document of freedom only because of several corrective amendments. Those amendments speak to a sense of decency and fairness that… — Thurgood Marshall
An interval of meditation, serious and grateful, was the best corrective of everything dangerous. — Jane Austen
Autumn is the eternal corrective. It is ripeness and color and a time of maturity; but it is also breadth, and depth, and distance. What… — Hal Borland
Laughter is the corrective force which prevents us from becoming cranks. — Henri Bergson
Skillful conversationalists can explore disagreements and make points in ways that feel constructive and positive rather than combative or corrective. — Gretchen Rubin
Suffering is a corrective to point out a lesson which by other means we have failed to grasp, and never can it be eradicated until… — Edward Bach
Probably a few weeks after I was born I started having casts put on my legs to straighten them out. After that corrective shoes and… — Kristi Yamaguchi
Positive corrective approach to wrong done has positive affect on self empowerment. — Anil Sinha

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