“ Nothing is so fragile as thought in its infancy; an interruption breaks it: nothing is so powerful, even to overturning empires, when it reaches its maturity. ”
- Christian Nestell Bovee- Copy
- 3K
“ Baseball, it is said, is only a game. True. And the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona. Not all holes, or games, are created equal. ”
- George Will- Copy
- 3.9K
“ Life is made up of small pleasures. Happiness is made up of those tiny successes. The big ones come too infrequently. And if you don't collect all these tiny successes, the big ones don't really mean anything. ”
- Norman Lear- Copy
- 3.6K
“ The great thing is, if one can, to stop regarding all the unpleasant things as interruptions in one's "own" or "real" life. The truth is, of course, that what one regards as interruptions are precisely one's life. ”
- C.S. Lewis- Copy
- 3.4K
“ Darkness is to space what silence is to sound; i.e., the interval. ”
- Marshall McLuhan- Copy
- 2.8K
“ With freedom comes responsibility, and I can think of no responsibility greater than putting on a U.S military uniform and standing in the gap between an enemy threat and civilian life. ”
- Zack Wamp- Copy
- 2.7K
“ Baseball, it is said, is only a game. True. And the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona. Not all holes, or games, are created equal. ”
- George F. Will- Copy
- 667
“ There is no wider gulf in the universe than yawns between those on the hither and thither side of vital experience. ”
- Rebecca West- Copy
- 2.3K
“ Few things tend more to alienate friendship than a want of punctuality in our engagements. I have known the breach of a promise to dine or sup to break up more than one intimacy. ”
- William Hazlitt- Copy
- 1.4K
“ It ain't no sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don't break any. ”
- Mae West- Copy
- 2.9K
“ It ain't sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don't break any. ”
- Mae West- Copy
- 810
“ Generation Gap: A chasm, amorphously situated in time and space, that separates those who have grown up absurd from those who will, with luck, grow up absurd. ”
- Bernard Rosenberg- Copy
- 1.8K
“ If you practice an art, be proud of it and make it proud of you It may break your heart, but it will fill your heart before it breaks it; it will make you a person in your own right. ”
- Maxwell Anderson- Copy
- 1.4K
“ I found myself having to explain away to prospective employers a twenty-seven year gap in my r'sum'. ”
- Peter Malkin- Copy
- 2.8K
“ I'll take thy word for faith, not ask thine oath; Who shuns not to break one will sure crack both. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
- 1.6K
“ Should the whole frame of nature round him break In ruin and confusion hurled, He, unconcerned, would hear the mighty crack, And stand secure amidst a falling world. ”
- Joseph Addison- Copy
- 2.8K
“ Art, after all, is traditionally displayed against vacancies: paintings on dun walls, sculptures in empty spaces, music in quiet halls. ”
- John Hart- Copy
- 167
“ Time-space as commonly understood, in the sense of the distance measured between two time-points, is the result of time calculation. ”
- Martin Heidegger- Copy
- 2K
“ Probably the closest things to perfection are the huge absolutely empty holes that astronomers have recently discovered in space. If there's nothing there, how can anything go wrong? ”
- richard brautigan- Copy
- 440
“ The historian does simply not come in to replenish the gaps of memory. He constantly challenges even those memories that have survived intact. ”
- Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi- Copy
- 3.3K
“ The beauty myth moves for men as a mirage; its power lies in its ever-receding nature. When the gap is closed, the lover embraces only his own disillusion. ”
- Naomi Wolf- Copy
- 2.3K
“ Perhaps the best definition of progress would be the continuing efforts of men and women to narrow the gap between the convenience of the powers that be and the unwritten charter. ”
- Nadine Gordimer- Copy
- 696
“ Either God is in the whole of nature, with no gaps, or He's not there at all. ”
- L. A. Coulson- Copy
- 291
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