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literature privilege reason
Religion is dogmatic. Politic is ideological. Reason must be logical, but literature has a privilege of being equivocal. Carlos Fuentes
literature civility
The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none. Charles Dickens
literature potatoes poultry
Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prism, are all very good words for the lips.
literature made should
I made a compact with myself that in my person literature should stand by itself, of itself, and for itself.
literature stealing plagiarism
If we steal thoughts from the moderns, it will be cried down as plagiarism; if from the ancients, it will be cried up as erudition. Charles Caleb Colton
literature prudence
There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence.
literature fool religious-bigotry
Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost.
literature speech giants
The Grecian’s maxim would indeed be a sweeping clause in Literature; it would reduce many a giant to a pygmy; many a speech to a sentence; and many a folio to a primer.
literature action conflict
Those that are the loudest in their threats are the weakest in their actions.
conversation adam difficult
Conversation between Adam and Eve must have been difficult at times because they had nobody to talk about. Agnes Repplier
conversation funds merit might mutual next ten
There is conversation that over the next ten years, hedge funds would become like mutual funds, ... There is some merit to that conversation, but I think there might be some lag time. Charles Gradante
conversation either perform
When I'm singing I feel like I'm talking to someone. I'm in conversation when I perform - either with myself or with whomever is listening. Laura Marling
conversation
When I was 17, I met many artists, and it started to become this conversation with artists out of which all of my exhibitions grew.
conversation cultural feature love nominated people point role type
I would love to be nominated for an award at some point or do something that at least engenders the type of cultural conversation that a role like Giancarlo Esposito on 'Breaking Bad,' or actually any of the people on 'Breaking Bad.' I would love to have a role in a feature film that was a cultural talking point. Stephen Amell
conversation entire five liberal life pray quiet religion social talked worker
My grandparents used to pray five times a day, but they were quiet about their own thing. Completely liberal day by day; my grandmother was a social worker and my grandfather was an engineer, but they never talked about religion. My entire life I couldn't remember one conversation I had with them about religion. Mohsin Hamid
conversation current full issues major point politics support understand unhappy
We are at a point where the major issues are moot. Those formerly unhappy now, from what we understand in conversations, support our current efforts. The politics is such where we feel it's an important conversation with the full board.
conversation known since struck
We struck up a conversation right then like we'd known each other for years. Since then, it'd been that way. Terry Pendleton
conversation fragments future hear mean store
I have a magpie mind, by which I mean I see and hear little things - photos, fragments of conversation - and store them away for future use.
madmen jackets sane
When a madman appears thoroughly sane, indeed, it is high time to put him in a straight jacket. Edgar Allan Poe
madmen
He's right: They have to put madmen with madmen. Alexandre Dumas
madmen run saint self worst zeal
For virtue's self may too much zeal be had; the worst of madmen is a saint run mad. Alexander Pope
madmen autobiography
History is the autobiography of a madman. Alexander Herzen
madmen
Every madman considers everyone else a madman. Publilius Syrus
madmen
Victor Hugo was a madman who thought he was Victor Hugo Jean Cocteau
madmen pursue impossibility
It is the act of a madman to pursue impossibilities . Marcus Aurelius
madmen has-beens
Would Alexander, madman as he was, have been so much a madman, had it not been for Homer? Samuel Richardson