“ You can literally travel around inside the mummy's head,... You can see the hair is still on the child. You can see the pool of resin in the back of her head. ”
- Paul Brown- Copy
- 3.5K
“ Man would be "otherwise." That's the essence of the specifically human. ”
- Antonio Machado- Copy
- 3.9K
“ No president who performs his duties faithfully and conscientiously can have any leisure. ”
- James Polk- Copy
- 873
“ If we all did the things we are really capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves. ”
- Thomas A. Edison- Copy
- 3.3K
“ The word democracy comes from the Greek and means, literally, government by the people. ”
- Robert Welch- Copy
- 1.8K
“ Where the law is most strictly administered, it sometimes causes the greatest wrong. ”
- Legal Maxim- Copy
- 934
“ Any road followed precisely to its end leads precisely nowhere. Climb the mountain just a little bit to test it's a mountain. From the top of the mountain, you cannot see the mountain. ”
- Frank Herbert- Copy
- 3.9K
“ We can remember minutely and precisely only the things which never really happened to us. ”
- Eric Hoffer- Copy
- 935
“ University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small. ”
- Henry Kissinger- Copy
- 1.5K
“ One should never know too precisely whom one has married. ”
- Friedrich Nietzsche- Copy
- 618
“ I…have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is. I only know that people call me a feminist when I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat, or a prostitute. ”
- Rebecca West- Copy
- 3.3K
“ Humans have a knack for choosing precisely the things that are worst for them. ”
- J. K. Rowling- Copy
- 3.6K
“ I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat. ”
- Rebecca West- Copy
- 226
“ A major source of objection to a free economy is precisely what that group thinks they ought to want. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself. ”
- Milton Friedman- Copy
- 2.4K
“ A man's personal defects will commonly have with the rest of the world precisely that importance which they have to himself. If he makes light of them, so will other men. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
- 118
“ A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does not triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which destroy him. ”
- George Orwell- Copy
- 2K
“ Ambition is a Dead Sea fruit, and the greatest peril to the soul is that one is likely to get precisely what he is seeking. ”
- Edward Dahlberg- Copy
- 3.2K
“ Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult. ”
- Warren G. Bennis- Copy
- 371
“ Civilization exists precisely so that there may be no masses but rather men alert enough never to constitute masses. ”
- Georges Bernanos- Copy
- 977
“ Comedy deflates the sense precisely so that the underlying lubricity and malice may bubble to the surface. ”
- Paul Goodman- Copy
- 3.4K
“ Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one. ”
- Thomas Carlyle- Copy
- 3.9K
“ Freedom, morality, and the human dignity of the individual consists precisely in this; that he does good not because he is forced to do so, but because he freely conceives it, wants it, and loves it. ”
- Mikhail Bakunin- Copy
- 3.8K
“ In prison, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all. ”
- Eldridge Cleaver- Copy
- 1.4K
“ Intuition becomes increasingly valuable in the new information society precisely because there is so much data. ”
- John Naisbitt- Copy
- 2.5K
“ It is not known precisely where angels dwell — whether in the air, the void, or the planets. It has not been God's pleasure that we should be informed of their abode. ”
- Francois Marie Arouet de Voltaire- Copy
- 2.1K
“ It is precisely the purpose of the public opinion generated by the press to make the public incapable of judging, to insinuate into it the attitude of someone irresponsible, uninformed. ”
- Walter Benjamin- Copy
- 3.1K
“ It's precisely the disappointing stories, which have no proper ending and therefore no proper meaning, that sound true to life. ”
- Max Frisch- Copy
- 2.7K
“ Live not in yesterdays, Look back and you may sorrow. Live precisely for today, Look forward to tomorrow. ”
- J.J. Hulsgen- Copy
- 2.2K
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4