Quotes 21 till 40 of 42.
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It is, alas, chiefly the evil emotions that are able to leave their photographs on surrounding scenes and objects and whoever heard of a place haunted by a noble deed, or of beautiful and lovely ghosts revisiting the glimpses of the moon?
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Men get opinions as boys learn to spell by reiteration chiefly.
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Movies are one of the bad habits that corrupted our century. Of their many sins, I offer as the worst their effect on the intellectual side of the nation. It is chiefly from that viewpoint I write of them - as an eruption of trash that has lamed the American mind and retarded Americans from becoming a cultured people.
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Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.
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Our greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within.
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Speak not too well of one who scarce will know himself transfigured in its roseate glow; Say kindly of him what is, chiefly, true, remembering always he belongs to you; Deal with him as a truant, if you will, But claim him, keep him, call him brother still!
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Such indeed is the superior longevity of the fair females of Surinam, compared to that of the males (owing chiefly, as I said, to their excesses of all sorts) that I have frequently known wives who have buried four husbands, but never met a man in this country who had survived two wives.
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The are of will-making chiefly consists in baffling the importunity of expectation.
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The first Rudiments of Morality, broach'd by skilful Politicians, to render Men useful to each other as well as tractable, were chiefly contrived that the Ambitious might reap the more Benefit from, and govern vast Numbers of them with the greater Ease and Security.
The Fable of the Bees An Enquiry into the Origin of Moral Virtue, p. 33 -
The greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within.
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The one book necessary to be understood by a divine, is the Bible; any others are to be read, chiefly, in order to understand that.
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The two qualities which chiefly inspire regard and affection [Are] that a thing is your own and that it is your only one.
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The world's battlefields have been in the heart chiefly, and there the greatest heroism has been secretly exercised.
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We are so captivated by and entangled in our subjective consciousness that we have forgotten the age-old fact that God speaks chiefly through dreams and visions.
The Symbolic Life (1953) -
When one cannot appraise out of one's own experience, the temptation to blunder is minimized, but even when one can, appraisal seems chiefly useful as appraisal of the appraiser.
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Where is Hollywood located? Chiefly between the ears. In that part of the American brain lately vacated by God.
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Zeal is fit for wise men, but flourishes chiefly among fools.
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All great masters are chiefly distinguished by the power of adding a second, a third, and perhaps a fourth step in a continuous line. Many a man had taken the first step. With every additional step you enhance immensely the value of your first.
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