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538 Passages quotes by 451 unique authors

Ideas should be neutral. But man animates them with his passions and folly. Impure and turned into beliefs, they take on the appearance of reality.… — Emile M. Cioran
When I write, the story is always uppermost in my mind, and I feel that everything must be sacrificed to it. All elegant passages, all… — Paul Auster
Something that you should take particular notice of is the fact that the best scripts have very few explanatory passages. Adding explanation to the descriptive… — Akira Kurosawa
When I was young I had an elderly friend who used often to ask me to stay with him in the country. He was a… — W. Somerset Maugham
All the dark, intricate, puzzling providences at which we were sometimes so offended...we shall [one day] see to be to us, as the difficult passage… — John Flavel
Time brings an end to everything. We should not mistake for a tragedy what is no more than the passage of time. — Robert Breault
The Christian view that all intercourse outside marriage is immoral was, as we see in the above passages from St. Paul, based upon the view… — Bertrand Russell
But if you miss it, you will next be confronted with the angry deities, ... threatening you and barring your passage ... because you turned… — Gautama Buddha
And we must beg Homer and the other poets not to be angry if we strike out these and similar passages, not because they are… — Plato
Unnoticed, the passage has occurred; as I brood, autumn dusk dewdrops fall on my pillow. The voices of insects and the deer by the fence,… — Princess Shikishi
Old age and the passage of time teach all things. — Sophocles
It takes the passage of time before an image of a commonplace subject can be assessed. The great difficulty of what I attempt is seeing… — George A Tice
Awareness born of love is the only force that can bring healing and renewal. Out of our love for another person, we become more willing… — John Welwood
I see no reason why Indians who can give satisfactory proof of having by their own labor supported their families for a number of years,… — Rutherford B. Hayes
I went to America in the winter of 1872-73, authorised to secure, if I could, the passage of a bill demonetising silver. It was in… — Unknown Author
Biblical backing for Mormon behavior is easy to find, although Mark Twain is reported to have denied its legitimacy to a Mormon. The Mormon claimed… — Dennis McKinsey
Paul Martin talks eloquently about defending national sovereignty but the reality hasn't matched the rhetoric. When it comes to the United States, Mr. Martin says… — Stephen Harper
Idiom is larger than geography it is the hot breath of a people singing, slashing, explorative. Imagery becomes the magic denominator, the language of a… — Mari Evans
I was as secretive - indeed, as furtive - as any conspirator. Discovery, we knew, simply must not happen, or else all our time and… — Unknown Author
Before passage of this [Federal Reserve] Act, the New York Bankers could only dominate the reserves of New York. Now, we are able to dominate… — Unknown Author
After such knowledge, what forgiveness? Think now History has many cunning passages, contrived corridors And issues, deceives with whispering ambitions Guides us by vanities. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
One was a book I read by Mahatma Gandhi. In it was a passage where he said that religion, the pursuing of the inner journey,… — Satish Kumar
I find that the old Roman baths of this quarter, were found covered by an old burying ground, belonging to the Abbey; through which, in… — Tobias Smollett
I didn't really had a good answer, as so often -- is me. But then somebody sent me the other day, Isaiah 49:16, and you… — Sarah Palin
How has The Grand Illusion held up over the years? It is not enough to say that it has retained its power. Not only has… — Andre Bazin

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