Endowing Quotes

18 quotes by 14 authors

In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human… — George Santayana
From her gospel-singing mother Cissy Houston, her legendary pop-diva cousin Dionne Warwick, and her Queen of Soul godmother Aretha Franklin, she [Whitney Houston] inherited gifts… — Aberjhani
We attach our feelings to the moment when we were hurt, endowing it with immortality. And we let it assault us every time it comes… — Lewis B. Smedes
Kafka would surely have been impressed by the twin ambitions of the modern empathetic state: the need to set up hyper-regulatory bodies preventing you from… — Mark Steyn
The spectacle we find in true religions has as its purpose enchantment, not entertainment. The distinction is critical. By endowing things with magic, enchantment is… — Neil Postman
Typography is the craft of endowing human language with a durable visual form, and thus with an independent existence. Its heartwood is calligraphy - the… — Robert Bringhurst
Companies like Enron have learned that small investments in endowing chairs, sponsoring research programs or hiring moonlighting professors can return big payoffs in generating books,… — Ralph Nader
YOUTH, n. The Period of Possibility, when Archimedes finds a fulcrum, Cassandra has a following and seven cities compete for the honor of endowing a… — Ambrose Bierce
To read great books does not mean one becomes â€˜bookishâ€™; it means that something of the terrible insight of Dostoyevsky, of the richly-charged imagination of… — John Cowper Powys
When the poet makes his perfect selection of a word, he is endowing the word with life. — John Drinkwater
In The Earthwise Herbal, Matthew Wood has revived the richness, depth, and dignity of the herbal medicine of the old masters, while at the same… — Rudolph Ballentine
The artist, depicting man disdainful of the storm and stress of life, is no less reconciling and healing than the poet who, while endowing Nature… — Bernard Berenson
Typography is the craft of endowing human language with a durable visual form. — Robert Bringhurst
The Bhagavad-Gita is the most systematic statement of spiritual evolution of endowing value to mankind. It is one of the most clear and comprehensive summaries… — Aldous Huxley
This result could have been achieved either by his [God] endowing my intellect with a clear and distinct perception of everything about which I would… — Rene Descartes
YOUTH, n. The Period of Possibility, when Archimedes finds a fulcrum, Cassandra has a following and seven cities compete for the honor of endowing a… — Ambrose Bierce
The Bhagavad-Gita is the most systematic statement of spiritual evolution of endowing value to mankind. The Gita is one of the clearest and most comprehensive… — Aldous Huxley

Who Wrote These Endowing Quotes

14 authors contributed a total of 18 Endowing Quotes as follows: