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epigram frivolous meant misses thinks
He misses what is meant by epigram - who thinks it only frivolous flimflam Marcus Aurelius
epigram light men morality sent stream time wise
The wise men of old have sent most of their morality down the stream of time in the light skiff of apothegm and epigram Edwin Whipple
epigram flashes light reason regions shines
An epigram often flashes light into regions where reason shines but dimly
light chocolate want
When I want comfort food, I buy Maltesers. I like all chocolates, but especially those. You can eat them, and because they're so light, you can convince yourself that they are not actually that fattening. David Walliams
light godmother haste
You've got to make haste while it's still light of day. Ben Vereen
light work-out long
You've got to make haste while it's still light of day. My godmother used to say, I don't want to rust out, I just want to work out. If you stand still long enough, people will throw dirt on you.
light quality literature
The quality of light by which we scrutinize our lives has direct bearing upon the product which we live, and upon the changes which we hope to bring about through those lives. Audre Lorde
light vegetables play
Composing a concert is like composing a menu.... If you start with light pieces and play a 45-minute sonata after the interlude, it's like starting dinner with hors d'oeuvres and dessert and finishing with a Châteaubriand and vegetables. Arthur Rubinstein
light order break-through
The theater, which is in no thing, but makes use of everything - gestures, sounds, words, screams, light, darkness - rediscovers itself at precisely the point where the mind requires a language to express its manifestations. To break through language in order to touch life is to create or recreate the theatre. Antonin Artaud
light noise ruins
The fixation of the theater in one language--written words, music, lights, noises--betokens its imminent ruin.
light gowns gremlins
Couture gowns are like gremlins; you can't expose them to bright light or get them wet. Diablo Cody
light america fire
Some said America took a step forward electing a black president. In light of the unconstitutiona l expansion of powers, lack of transparency and fueling the fires of unrest that clearly hasn't been the case. Vote based on merits, not to fill a racial quota. Denzel Washington
men clothes keys
We sort of expect to see men in women's clothes. It's part of our culture. The key thing is, it has to be done quite badly.
men culture debt
Social Science … led us to the fallacy that, since all men have their being in culture and as a result of culture, they owe a debt to that culture which even a lifetime of altruism could not repay. David Riesman
men frustrated jam
Drivers in a traffic jam, frustrated by each others presence, are not the most amiable of men.
men class different
Men are created different; they lose their social freedom and their individual autonomy in seeking to become like each other.
men pay commodity
I have endeavoured to show that the ability to pay taxes depends, not on the gross money value of the mass of commodities, nor on the net money value of the revenue of capitalists and landlords, but on the money value of each man's revenue compared to the money value of the commodities which he usually consumes. David Ricardo
men opera roles
Why, in the Peking Opera, are women's roles played by men?...Because only a man knows how a woman is supposed to act. David Henry Hwang
men vanity missing
In their vanity men focus on what they wish to hear and miss the hidden meaning, the lurking threat. David Hewson
men israel racism
For many Washington liberals, terrorism was not the instrument of political fanatics and evil men, but was the product of social conditions - poverty, racism and oppression - for which the Western democracies, including Israel were always ultimately to blame. David Horowitz
men ideas needs
No other question has ever moved so profoundly the spirit of man; no other idea has so fruitfully stimulated his intellect; yet no other concept stands in greater need of clarification than that of the infinite David Hilbert
morality difficult new-yorkers
It is difficult to offend a New Yorker. Alan Dershowitz
morality ought whole
I ought, or I ought not, constitute the whole of morality. Charles Darwin
morality reason process
A rational process is a moral process. Ayn Rand
morality common
Morality has nothing in common with politics. Bob Dylan
morality thou thousands thy
Morality, thou ly bane, Thy tens o' thousands thou has slain! Robert Burns
morality
Morality is moral only when it is voluntary. Lincoln Steffens
morality obsolete objections
I've no objection to morality, except that it's obsolete. Brian Aldiss
morality memories-dreams-reflections
Without freedom there can be no morality. Carl Jung
morality individual source
Is there one specific source that determines correct morality and everybody should follow that? Or should individuals come up with following that source or not depending on their situation? Asghar Farhadi
sentimental vain cases
Accuracy is, in every case, advantageous to beauty, and just reasoning to delicate sentiment. In vain would we exalt the one by depreciating the other. David Hume
sentiments reasoning
All our reasoning boils down to yielding to sentiment. Blaise Pascal
sent takes taking time toilet
One time I was taking a little too long in the toilet and Mr. Zanuck sent for me. And he said, what are you doing that takes so long? Maureen O'Hara
sent
She sent a laser in there. You look for breaks, you look for bounces, and we got one on that first goal. Mark Johnson
sentence
My daughter's first sentence was, 'Dada no hair.' And I was, like, 'No Jasmine, Dada does have hair, Dada just shaves his head.' Nigel Barker
sentimentality
Sentimentality about nature denatures everything it touches. Jane Jacobs
sentiment
Orientals, and the Malays in particular, are a sensitive people: delicacy of sentiment is predominant with them. Jose Rizal
sentimental covering brutality
Sentimentality is a superstructure covering brutality.
sentence
I don't want someone taking half a sentence or paraphrasing me... Just too much risk. Jason Calacanis
stream
I can't have the mountain, but at least I've got the stream here.
streaming sucked time unplug
We get sucked into the Internet and streaming information, and it's time to just unplug and look within. Jonathan Cain
streaming
There is no longer one way to consume TV. Some shows you want to watch live, some shows you only discover through streaming, some shows you just feel you need to DVR. Shonda Rhimes
streaming episodes feels
Obviously, it's not cable, it's streaming, but it's the same format. It's the same 10 episodes. It feels like cable as opposed to network. Christian Cooke
stream unique
It's unique in that it is around a stream and trees.
time easier really-mean
Once a person says, "This is who I really am, what I am all about, what I was really meant to do," it is easier to decide how to spend one's time. David Viscott
time stress people
People overestimate what they can accomplish in the near term and underestimate what they can accomplish in the long term.
time real math
How thoroughly it is ingrained in mathematical science that every real advance goes hand in hand with the invention of sharper tools and simpler methods which, at the same time, assist in understanding earlier theories and in casting aside some more complicated developments.
time math should-have
Before beginning [to try to prove Fermat's Last Theorem] I should have to put in three years of intensive study, and I haven't that much time to squander on a probable failure.
time-management management commodity
Time is a perishable commodity.
time pain littles
Oh, how precious is time, and how it pains me to see it slide away, while I do so little to any good purpose. David Brainerd
time improvement be-careful
Be careful to make a good improvement of precious time.
time mean thinking
The second time I was there I met Marcel Duchamp, and we immediately fell for each other. Which doesn't mean a thing because I think anybody who met Marcel fell for him. Beatrice Wood
time youth sensitive
Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life. Arthur Rimbaud
wise philosophy jealous
It seems then, say I, that you leave politics entirely out of the question, and never suppose, that a wise magistrate can justly be jealous of certain tenets of philosophy, such as those of Epicurus, which, denying a divine existence, and consequently a providence and a future state, seem to loosen, in a great measure, the ties of morality, and may be supposed, for that reason, pernicious to the peace of civil society.
wise men enquiry
In our reasonings concerning matter of fact, there are all imaginable degrees of assurance, from the highest certainty to the lowest species of moral evidence. A wise man, therefore, proportions his belief to the evidence.
wise country religious
... superstitions, which, being unable to defend themselves on fair ground, raise these intangling brambles to cover and protect their weakness. Chased from the open country, these robbers fly into the forest, and lie in wait to break in upon every unguarded avenue of the mind, and overwhelm it with religious fears and prejudices. ... The idea of God, as meaning an infinitely intelligent, wise and good Being, arises from reflecting on the operations of our own mind, and augmenting, without limit, those qualities of goodness and wisdom.
wise opposites miracle
Convulsions in nature, disorders, prodigies, miracles, though the most opposite of the plan of a wise superintendent, impress mankind with the strongest sentiments of religion.
wise men age
It is harder to avoid censure than to gain applause; for this may be done by one great or wise action in an age. But to escape censure a man must pass his whole life without saying or doing one ill or foolish thing
wise long silence
Nothing is so convenient as a decisive argument ... which must at least silence the most arrogant bigotry and superstition, and free us from their impertinent solicitations. I flatter myself, that I have discovered an argument ... which, if just, will, with the wise and learned, be an everlasting check to all kinds of superstitious delusion, and consequently, will be useful as long as the world endures. For so long, I presume, will the accounts of miracles and prodigies be found in all history, sacred and profane.
wise men stronger
A wise man's kingdom is his own breast: or, if he ever looks farther, it will only be to the judgment of a select few, who are free from prejudices, and capable of examining his work. Nothing indeed can be a stronger presumption of falsehood than the approbation of the multitude; and Phocion, you know, always suspected himself of some blunder when he was attended with the applauses of the populace.
wise intelligent ideas
... The idea of God, as meaning an infinitely intelligent, wise and good Being, arises from reflecting on the operations of our own mind, and augmenting, without limit, those qualities of goodness and wisdom.
wise government people
Every wise, just, and mild government, by rendering the condition of its subjects easy and secure, will always abound most in people, as well as in commodities and riches.