Observed Quotes

606 Observed quotes by 476 unique authors

Every man may be observed to have a certain strain of lamentation, some peculiar theme of complaint on which he dwells in his moments of… — Samuel Johnson
The essential fault of surrealism is that it invents without discovering. To make a clam play an accordion is to invent not to discover. The… — Wallace Stevens
Too much idleness, I have observed, fills up a man's time more completely and leaves him less his own master, than any sort of employment… — Edmund Burke
I have a theory that women are generally given space and appointed to jobs when the situation is tough. I've observed that in many instances.… — Christine Lagarde
It is observed at sea that men are never so much disposed to grumble and mutiny as when least employed. Hence an old captain, when… — Samuel Smiles
Once my hand has drawn something my eye has observed, I know it by heart, and I can draw it again without a model. — David Hockney
It is a commonly observed fact that the enslavement of women is invariably associated with a low type of social life, and that, conversely, her… — Herbert Spencer
Line is so versatile - you can do a fine, tight, closely observed description or simply put a line around an idea - like a… — Stan Smith
Intellect begins with the observation of nature, proceeds to memorize and classify the facts thus observed, and by logical deduction builds up that edifice of… — Herbert Read
The custom of the Church has very great authority and ought to be jealously observed in all things. — Thomas Aquinas
So the horns of the stag are sharp to offend his adversary, but are branched for the purpose of parrying or receiving the thrusts of… — Erasmus Darwin
The most conspicuous thing about suffering is, as W.H. Auden once observed, its banality. The day is green, the sun is shinging, someone is eating,… — Michael Jackson
You cannot stay on the summit forever; you have to come down... So why bother in the first place? Just this: What is above knows… — Joseph Jaworski
A man receives only what he is ready to receive... The phenomenon or fact that cannot in any wise be linked with the rest of… — Henry David Thoreau
If Henry James were still with us, he'd not only approve of Paris, He Said, he could have written it himself, though without his serpentine… — Rosellen Brown
We tend to overestimate what we can do in a short period, and underestimate what we can do over a long period, provided we work… — Gretchen Rubin
The first consideration is that the ceremonies of the Mosaic Law were abrogated by the coming of Christ and that they can no longer be… — Pope Benedict XIV
Sociologists have frequently observed that governments use punishment primarily as a tool of social control, and thus the extent or severity of punishment is often… — Michelle Alexander
It has already been observed that women, wherever placed, however high or low in the scale of cultivation, hold the destinies of human kind. Men… — Frances Wright
The instincts of the ant are very unimportant, considered as the ants; but the moment a ray of relation is seen to be a monitor,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The history of the Roman Empire is also the history of the uprising of the Empire of the Masses, who absorb and annul the directing… — Jose Ortega y Gasset
When you have arrived at your country house and have saluted your household, you should make the rounds of the farm the same day, if… — Cato the Elder
There is no quality of the mind, or of the body, that so instantaneously and irresistibly captivates, as wit. An elegant writer has observed that… — Charles Caleb Colton
It is indeed strange that with all the knowledge we have gained in the past hundred years we preserve and practice the methods of an… — Clarence Darrow
The First thing that strikes a traveler in the United States is the innumerable multitude of those who seek to emerge from their original condition;… — Alexis de Tocqueville

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