Quotes 2261 till 2280 of 3972.
-
Photography can only represent the present. Once photographed, the subject becomes part of the past.
-
Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body; it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity.
Sports Illustrated Vol 13, Is. 13 (26-12-1960) -
Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory.
-
Planning ahead is a measure of class. The rich and even the middle class plan for future generations, but the poor can plan ahead only a few weeks or days.
-
Play the game for more than you can afford to lose... only then will you learn the game.
-
Pleasure may come from illusion, but happiness can come only of reality.
-
Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit, to become delightful happiness must be tainted with poison.
-
Pleasures are all alike simply considered in themselves: he that hunts, or he that governs the commonwealth, they both please themselves alike, only we commend that, whereby we ourselves receive some benefit.
-
Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.
-
Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those we have personality and emotion know what it means to want to escape from these things.
-
Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before.
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (2012) 38 -
Poets have said that the reason to have children is to give yourself immortality. Immortality? Now that I have five children, my only hope is that they are all out of the house before I die.
-
Political liberty is to be found only in moderate governments.
-
Politics are almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war, you can only be killed once. But in politics many times.
-
Politics is a contest among people of diverse backgrounds and philosophies, advocating different solutions to common problems. The system only works when principled, energetic people participate.
-
Politics is a thing that only the unsophisticated can really go for.
-
Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
All english-only famous quotes and sayings you will always find on greatest-quotations.com (page 114)
