Clear Quote by Edith Wharton

“It is necessary to write, that much is clear, and to write in a way quite unlike any way which I have employed before.”

— Iris Murdoch

Until the raw ingredients of a pudding make a pudding, I shall never believe that the raw material of sensation and thought can make…

— Edith Wharton

It is less mortifying to believe one's self unpopular than insignificant, and vanity prefers to assume that indifference is a latent form of unfriendliness.

— Edith Wharton

You know, it's trying to put toothpaste back in the tube. Not only are there a lot of outsiders intervening but this also involves…

— John Kasich

Weight is caused by one element being situated in another; and it moves by the shortest line towards its centre, not by its own…

— Leonardo da Vinci

Our senses enable us to perceive only a minute portion of the outside world. Our hearing extends to a small distance. Our sight is…

— Nikola Tesla

Government intervention is not solving the problems, and in fact the governments around the world that are intervening the most in their economies are…

— Oliver DeMille

For healthy adult people, the really big thing we can foresee are ways of intervening in the ageing process, either by slowing or reversing…

— Nick Bostrom

It's something that's difficult to explain but I think all writers work this way to some extent, whether we're aware of it or not.…

— Mary J. Miller

[Concerning monotheistic religions] The only thing these hysterical cults have in common is the belief that this world will be consumed, and deservedly so,…

— Christopher Hitchens

In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or a century intervening between the perception that something ought…

— H. G. Wells

A number of Iraqis told us they had welcomed the U.S. forces as liberators initially but in the intervening months, they had come to…

— Bruce Cockburn