Quotes 701 till 720 of 12730.
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A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.
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A single man has not nearly the value he would have in a state of union. He is an incomplete animal. He resembles the odd half of a pair of scissors.
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A slave has but one master. An ambition man, has as many as there are people who helped him get his fortune.
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A small town is a place where there's no place to go where you shouldn't.
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A society in which all men and women would become people of substantive reason, whose independent reasoning would have structural consequences for their societies, its history and thus for their own life fates.
The Sociological Imagination (1959) -
A society must assume that it is stable, but the artist must know, and he must let us know, that there is nothing stable under heaven.
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A soldier of the Legion lay dying in Algiers, There was a lack of woman's nursing, there was dearth of woman's tears; But a comrade stood beside him, while his lifeblood ebbed away.
Bingen on the Rhine l. 1 (1850) -
A soul that is reluctant to share does not as a rule have much of its own. Miserliness is here a symptom of meagerness.
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A statesman who keeps his ear permanently glued to the ground will have neither elegance of posture nor flexibility of movement.
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A strict belief, fate is the worst kind of slavery; on the other hand there is comfort in the thought that God will be moved by our prayers.
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A structure becomes architectural, and not sculptural, when its elements no longer have their justification in nature.
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A style does not go out of style as long as it adapts itself to its period. When there is an incompatibility between the style and a certain state of mind, it is never the style that triumphs.
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A successful woman preacher was once asked what special obstacles have you met as a woman in the ministry? Not one, she answered, except the lack of a minister's wife.
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A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.
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A tradition without intelligence is not worth having. T. S. Eliot, After Strange Gods (1934) There is no creation without tradition. No one creates from nothing.
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A true measure of your worth includes all the benefits others have gained from your success.
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A wicked mortal is not the idea of God. He is little else than the expression of error. To suppose that sin, lust, hatred, envy, hypocrisy, revenge, have life abiding in them, is a terrible mistake. Life and Life's idea, Truth and Truth's idea, never make men sick, sinful, or mortal.
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A wind has blown the rain away and blown the sky away and all the leaves away, and the trees stand. I think, I too, have known autumn too long.
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A woman may have a witty tongue or a stinging pen but she will never laugh at her own individual shortcomings.
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