Otherwise Quotes

2652 Otherwise quotes by 1879 unique authors

I don't believe that the big men, the politicians and capitalists alone, are guilty of war. Oh no, the little man is just as guilty,… — Anne Frank
Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism. — Jean Cocteau
What strange impulse is it which induces otherwise truthful people to say they like music when they do not, and thus expose themselves to hours… — Agnes Repplier
Many thoughts are so dependent upon the language in which they are clothed that they would lose half their beauty if otherwise expressed. — John Ruskin
Go to the pine if you want to learn about the pine, or to the bamboo if you want to learn about the bamboo. And… — Matsuo Basho
Whatever creature comes to you, human or otherwise, treat it with consideration. — Sai Baba
I feel a reassuring oneness with other people when I find that even my most intimate, anguished, socially inadmissible emotions and desires are known to… — Yi-Fu Tuan
People think that writing is writing, but actually writing is editing. Otherwise, you're just taking notes — Chris Abani
Dignity, high station, or great riches, are in some sort necessary to old men, in order to keep the younger at a distance, who are… — Jonathan Swift
There is no law of progress. Our future is in our own hands, to make or to mar. It will be an uphill fight to… — William Ralph Inge
Christianity, above all, consoles; but there are naturally happy souls who do not need consolation. Consequently Christianity begins by making such souls unhappy, for otherwise… — Andre Gide
A dirty joke is not, of course, a serious attack on morality, but it is a sort of mental rebellion, a momentary wish that things… — George Orwell
If one must do a wrong, it's best to do it pursuing power-otherwise, let's have virtue. — Euripides
Labor, in itself, is neither elevating or otherwise. It is the laborer's privilege to ennoble his work by the aim with which he undertakes it,… — Lucy Larcom
Poets, not otherwise than philosophers, painters, sculptors, and musicians, are, in one sense, the creators, and, in another, the creations, of their age. — Percy Bysshe Shelley
I write, or used to write, to explain to myself situations I couldn't otherwise solve or understand. Meditation comes very naturally to me. — Anne Stevenson
Philosophical theories or ideas, as points of view, instruments of criticism, may help us to gather up what might otherwise pass unregarded by us. — Walter Pater
An adversarial family law system raises the stakes unnecessarily high, exacerbates the antagonism of the couples concerned, and is directly responsible for making it impossible… — Louis de Bernieres
The greater part of the people we assign to educate our sons we know for certain are not educated. Yet we do not doubt that… — Giacomo Leopardi
By afflictions God is spoiling us of what otherwise might have spoiled us. When he makes the world too hot for us to hold, we… — John Powell
The one regret I have about my own abortions is that they cost money that might otherwise have been spent on something more pleasurable, like… — Barbara Ehrenreich
The label of liberalism is hardly a sentence to public ignominy: otherwise Bruce Springsteen would still be rehabilitating used Cadillacs in Asbury Park and Jane… — Barbara Ehrenreich
It's perfectly obvious that somebody's responsible and somebody's innocent. Otherwise it [justice] makes no sense at all. — Ugo Betti
I feel like my honesty gives people the freedom to talk about things they wouldn't otherwise. — Jane Fonda
There must be something unique about man because otherwise, evidently, the ducks would be lecturing about Konrad Lorenz, and the rats would be writing papers… — Jacob Bronowski

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