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A full-dressed ecclesiastic is a sort of go-cart of divinity; an ethical automaton. A clerical prig is, in general, a very dangerous as well as… — William Hazlitt
There is a sort of subjection which is the peculiar heritage of largeness and of love; and strength is often only another name for willing… — George Eliot
These warriors of the Sacred Band were inscrutable; they loved their war and death and picking through the bones of time to sort out right… — Janet Morris
Not even the visionary or mystical experience ever lasts very long. It is for art to capture that experience, to offer it to, in the… — Salman Rushdie
I really, really enjoy fitting words together - but I only enjoy it when it's easy, when it sort of rolls along by itself. I… — Fiona Apple
When I wrote the song, I had the sea near Bombay in mind. We stayed at a hotel by the sea, and the fishermen come… — Ray Davies
Nothing more clearly shows how little God esteems his gift to men of wealth, money, position and other worldly goods, than the way he distributes… — Jean de la Bruyere
Marriage is treated by all civilized societies as a peculiar and favored contract. It is in its origin a contract of natural law . .… — Joseph Story
Nothing can be more depressing than to expose, naked to the light of thought, the hideous growth of argot. Indeed it is like a sort… — Victor Hugo
I think a lot of my interest in history now isn't so much in places and names and texts and public figures, but more in… — Sufjan Stevens
Happiness is a sort of action. — Aristotle
In my own time there have been inventions of this sort, transparent windows tubes for diffusing warmth equally through all parts of a building short-hand,… — Seneca the Younger
Sometimes apparent resemblance of character will bring two men together and for a certain time unite them. But their mistake gradually becomes evident, and they… — Nicolas Chamfort
I sort of recognize it, as opposed to shaping it. Oh, that's a good idea, that's a good line. I wonder where I can use… — Paul Simon
The words come. Usually, it's a long time before they come. And then when they start to come, it doesn't take so long for it… — Paul Simon
These days I keep a journal, so I'm constantly sketching down my thoughts, or lines that come to me...ideas for songs. And then when I… — Ani DiFranco
My writing just kind of exists out there in the air-it's all sort of intended as spoken, or sung, word. So, to commit them to… — Ani DiFranco
['Fire and Rain'] is sort of almost uncomfortably close. Almost confessional. The reason I could write a song like that at that point, and probably… — James Taylor
It is a negative sort of achievement, she thinks, to have spent a life warding something off. — Adam Haslett
He realized now that a lot of the problem had been his own mind, which was usually moving at a speed ten or twenty times… — Stephen King

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