Quotes 1021 till 1040 of 12035.
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A word is a bud attempting to become a twig. How can one not dream while writing? It is the pen which dreams. The blank page gives the right to dream.
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A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged, it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and the time in which it is used.
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A word to the wise is not sufficient if it doesn't make sense.
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A work can become modern only if it is first postmodern. Postmodernism thus understood is not modernism at its end but in the nascent state, and this state is constant.
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A world without newspapers or a world where the newspapers are purely electronic and you read them on a screen is not a very appealing world.
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A writer is not a confectioner, a cosmetic dealer, or an entertainer. He is a man who has signed a contract with his conscious and his sense of duty.
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A young and vital child knows no limit to his own will, and it is the only reality to him. It is not that he wants at the outset to fight other wills, but that they simply do not exist for him. Like the artist, he goes forth to the work of creation, gloriously alone.
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A young man who does not have what it takes to perform military service is not likely to have what it takes to make a living.
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Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today's world do not have.
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Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire.
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Absence does not make the heart grow fonder, but it sure heats up the blood.
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Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
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Absence of proof is not proof of absence.
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Abundance is not something we acquire. It is something we tune into.
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Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.
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Acceptance is appreciation, and the high value of appreciation is such that to appreciate appreciation seems to be the fundamental prerequisite for survival. Mankind will not die for lack of information; it may perish for lack of appreciation.
Who Is Man? (1965) -
Acceptance is not love. You love a person because he or she has lovable traits, but you accept everybody just because they're alive and human.
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Accepting your own mortality is like eating your vegetables: You may not want to do it, but it's good for you.
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Accidents will occur in the best-regulated families; and in families not regulated by that pervading influence which sanctifies while it enhances... in short, by the influence of Woman, in the lofty character of Wife, they may be expected with confidence, and must be borne with philosophy.
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