Quotes 7141 till 7160 of 25590.
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I cannot discover that anyone knows enough to say definitely what is and what is not possible.
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I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every social advance as a first step toward revolution, and that they may absolutely refuse to move at all.
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I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty.
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I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat.
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I cannot pretend to feel impartial about colors. I rejoice with the brilliant ones and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.
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I cannot see how a man of any large degree of humorous perception can ever be religious - except he purposely shut the eyes of his mind and keep them shut by force.
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I cannot sleep for dreaming; I cannot dream but I wake and walk about the house as though I'd find you coming through some door.
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I care not so much what I am in the opinion of others, as what I am in my own; I would be rich of myself and not by borrowing.
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I care not, a man can die but once; we owe God and death.
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I celebrate myself, and sing myself.
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I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
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I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need. [when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues.]
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I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects.
The picture of Dorian Gray (1891) -
I claim my heart's desire, and I choose my direction. I will attain my chosen goal.
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I claim to be an average man of less than average ability. I have not the shadow of a doubt that any man or woman can achieve what I have, if he or she would make the same effort and cultivate the same hope and faith.
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I closed the box and put it in a closet. There is no real way to deal with everything we lose.
Faceboek (2011) -
I come from the theater, where the response to your work is immediate, and I suppose there's a part of me that still craves that.
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I conceive that pleasures are to be avoided if greater pains be the consequence, and pains to be coveted that will terminate in greater pleasures.
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I conceive there lies a clear rule in Titus that the elder women should instruct the younger and then I must have a time wherein I must do it.
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I confess I enjoy democracy immensely. It is incomparably idiotic, and hence incomparably amusing.
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