Quotes:It is well that we have hobbies and crafts, not only do they give a
sense of purpose but they have a purpose of themselves, too.
View quotes by Phyllis GeorgeAnimals... don't have a
sense of time. You just have to do things over and over with animals until they happen to do it right because they don't really know what you want.
View quotes by Bruce GreenwoodRape is highly reprehensible, both in a moral
sense and in its almost total contempt for the personal integrity and autonomy of the female victim and for the latter's privilege of choosing those with whom intimate relations are to be established.
View quotes by Byron R WhiteIn the true
sense one's native land, with its background of tradition, early impressions, reminiscences and other things dear to one, is not enough to make sensitive human beings feel at home.
View quotes by Emma GoldmanThe function of literature, through all its mutations, has been to make us aware of the particularity of selves, and the high authority of the self in its quarrel with its society and its culture. Literature is in that
sense subversive.
View quotes by Lionel TrillingPrime minister's questions with Tony Blair there is some sort of light and shadow and he's got a
sense of humour... I'm not sure with Gordon Brown how many light moments there will be.
View quotes by David CameronAny person, brought into the presence of this fact, stops for a few moments and remains pensive and silent; and then generally leaves, carrying with him forever a sharper, keener
sense of our incessant motion through space.
View quotes by Leon FoucaultThe superior gratification derived from the use and contemplation of costly and supposedly beautiful products is, commonly, in great measure a gratification of our
sense of costliness masquerading under the name of beauty.
View quotes by ThucydidesIt reminds me [Waterloo by Abba] of the happy childhood I had at home before going off for seven years to boarding school in Sept 1974. It evokes a
sense of childhood innocence and naivety.
View quotes by David DelargyReject your
sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.
View quotes by Marcus AureliusThe great thing about the 600,000 people who bought the last record, they bought it because they liked it, because they heard it was good. It got no radio airplay at all in America, and the
sense of achievement you have in selling 600,000 albums is pretty amazing
View quotes by Neil TennantArresting a single drunk or a single vagrant who has harmed no identifiable person seems unjust, and in a
sense it is. But failing to do anything about a score of drunks or a hundred vagrants may destroy an entire community.
View quotes by James WilsonFor those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a
sense of death (or of anything else) as natural, death is the obscene mystery, the ultimate affront, the thing that cannot be controlled. It can only be denied.
View quotes by Susan SontagOur people receive the news of his death with a deep
sense of grief and loss.
He was a holy champion of the Filipino family and of profound Christian values that make everyone of us contemplate... what is just, moral and sacred in life.
[on Pope John Paul II]
View quotes by Gloria ArroyoAuthority is not a quality one person 'has,' in the
sense that he has property or physical qualities. Authority refers to an interpersonal relation in which one person looks upon another as somebody superior to him.
View quotes by Erich FrommIf you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular
sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.
View quotes by Frank HerbertI will probably leave [Edgbaston] with the most vivid memory that I will replay in my mind for the rest of my life.
There's maybe a
sense of pride but initially there's disappointment. In a lot of ways it's cruel to get that close and just miss out in the end. [on losing to England, Edgbaston, 2005 Ashes]
View quotes by Michael KasprowiczOn good friend Nicole Kidman:
'I've never worked with her. I met her through a couple good girlfriends of mine. She has a great
sense of humor. She laughs easily. I like hanging out with people who laugh easily. Contrary to popular opinion, I like to be a little silly.'
View quotes by Russell CroweMiracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In this
sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
View quotes by Marianne Williamson'It is by no means enough that an officer be capable...He should be a gentleman of liberal education, refined, manners, punctilious courtesy, and the nicest
sense of personal honor... No meritorious act of a subordinate should escape his attention, even if the reward be only one word of approval. Conversely, he should not be blind to a single fault in any subordinate.'
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