Quotes 141 till 160 of 882.
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But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be.
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But the imposition of morality onto science, - where it does not belong - has become rampant in recent years.
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But this is the great danger America faces. That we will cease to be one nation and become instead a collection of interest groups: city against suburb, region against region, individual against individual. Each seeking to satisfy private wants.
Speaking the truth with eloquent thunder -
But when the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service. They will become flatterers instead of legislators, the instruments, not the guides of the people.
Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790) -
But, you know, we have these entrenched entities - and I'm talking about both Republicans and Democrats - who believe that when you're elected to office, you become some kind of member of the aristocracy, and that anyone who challenges you is attacking you and is unpatriotic. This is foolishness.
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By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you will become a philosopher.
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By ratifying the Convention, governments become legally bound to implement the rights therein.
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By resisting almost any change aimed at improving our public schools, teachers' unions have become a ripe target for reformers across the ideological spectrum.
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By revolution we become more ourselves, not less.
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Can a woman become a genius of the first class? Nobody can know unless women in general shall have equal opportunity with men in education, in vocational choice, and in social welcome of their best intellectual work for a number of generations.
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Celebrities become divas because they get pampered so much, babied so much - then they get used to it.
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Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.
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Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
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Come September, the middle of September when the first frost comes, that's hunting season. Fishing poles are hung up and the hunting season starts. You've got to be careful, if you're a hunter, that it doesn't become an obsession.
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Commerce is so far from being beneficial to arts, or to empire, that it is destructive of both, as all their history shows, for the above reason of individual merit being its great hatred. Empires flourish till they become commercial, and then they are scattered abroad to the four winds.
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Culture is on the horns of this dilemma: if profound and noble it must remain rare, if common it must become mean.
The life of reason (1906) -
Dance never really goes away; it just reforms and reinvents, and it's become more athletic with new connection to fitness and sport. Dance used to have this exclusivity, but not any more.
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Decadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more than a term of abuse applied by critics to anything they do not yet understand.
Death in the Afternoon (1932) ch. 7 -
Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.
Set in motion: essays, interviews, and dialogues (1996 edition), Univ of Michigan Pr
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