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“Among the people, there will be someone like poetry, like imagination that is neither perceived as real nor present to the senses, when it comes true and visible, it is a Divine gift and reward of one's inner wishes, desires, and prayers.”
“Among the people to whom he belonged, nothing was written or talked about at that time except the Serbian war. Everything that the idle crowd usually does to kill time, it now did for the benefit of the Slavs: balls, concerts, dinners, speeches, ladies' dresses, beer, restaurants—all bore witness to our sympathy with the Slavs.
With much that was spoken and written on the subject Konyshev did not agree in detail. He saw that the Slav question had become one of those fashionable diversions which, ever succeeding one another, serve to occupy Society; he saw that too many people took up the question from interested motives. He admitted that the papers published much that was unnecessary and exaggerated with the sole aim of drawing attention to themselves, each outcrying the other. He saw that amid this general elation in Society those who were unsuccessful or discontented leapt to the front and shouted louder than anyone else: Commanders-in-Chief without armies, Ministers without portfolios, journalists without papers, and party leaders without followers. He saw that there was much that was frivolous and ridiculous; but he also saw and admitted the unquestionable and ever-growing enthusiasm which was uniting all classes of society, and with which one could not help sympathizing. The massacre of our coreligionists and brother Slavs evoked sympathy for the sufferers and indignation against their oppressors. And the heroism of the Serbs and Montenegrins, fighting for a great cause, aroused in the whole nation a desire to help their brothers not only with words but by deeds.
Also there was an accompanying fact that pleased Koznyshev. It was the manifestation of public opinion. The nation had definitely expressed its wishes. As Koznyshev put it, ' the soul of the nation had become articulate.' The more he went into this question, the clearer it seemed to him that it was a matter which would attain enormous proportions and become epoch-making.”
Source: ANNA KARENINA
“Among the planets of the arts, architecture is the dark side of the moon.”
Source: Architecture as space: how to look at architecture
“Among the plastic saints of our times, Jesus has to do all the dying, and all we want to hear is another sermon about his dying.”
“Among the poor, the approach of dissolution is usually regarded with a quiet and natural composure, which it is consolatory to contemplate, and which is as far removed from the dead palsy of unbelief as it is from the delirious raptures of fanaticism. Theirs is a true, unhesitating faith, and they are willing to lay down the burden of e weary life, in the sure and certain hope of a blessed immortality.”
“Among the popular and representative systems of government I do not approve of the federal system: it is too perfect; and it requires virtues and political talents much superior to our own.”
“Among the principles of the Ahlus Sunnah wal Jama'ah lie the attitude of peace and purity of their heart and tongue towards the Sahaba(Companions) of the Prophet (saw).”
“Among the problems with shame was that it in fact did not make you shorter or quieter or less visible. You just felt like you were.”
Source: Lover Enshrined: A Novel of The Black Dagger Brotherhood
“Among the rain and lights I saw the figure 5 in gold on a red firetruck moving tense unheeded to gong clangs siren howls and wheels rumbling through the dark city.”
Source: The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams
“Among the real heroines in the world who will come into the Church are women who are more concerned with being righteous than with being selfish. These real heroines have true humility, which places a higher value on integrity than on visibility. Remember, it is as wrong to do things just to be seen of women as it is to do things to be seen of men. Great women and men are always more anxious to serve than to have dominion.”
Source: Blueprints for living: perspectives for Latter-day Saint women
“Among the reasons marriages fail, sex ranks no higher than fourth, behind money, having only one bathroom, and an inability to communicate, reasons one, two and three.”
Source: This 'n That
“Among the reasons people keep sad stories to themselves is that they do not want anyone to feel sorry for them.”
Source: Fat Girl: A True Story
“Among the reasons that you go into journalism, I suppose, are some rather idealistic, even foolish reasons. In my case one of the reasons was I wanted to explain how things really work, how political power really works.”
“Among the rednecks of America, which there are many more than people seem to realize, it was terribly damaging. I got blamed for O.J.'s acquittal.”
“Among the remedies which it has pleased Almighty God to give to man to relieve his sufferings, none is so universal and so efficacious as opium.”
“Among the repulsions of atheism for me has been its drastic un-interestingness as an intellectual position. Where was the ingenuity, the ambiguity, the humanity of saying that the universe just happened to happen and that when we're dead we're dead?”
Source: Self-consciousness: memoirs
“Among the repulsions of atheism for me has been its drastic uninterestingness as an intellectual position.”
Source: Self-consciousness: memoirs
“Among the rich you will never find a really generous man even by accident. They may give their money away, but they will never give themselves away; they are egotistic, secretive, dry as old bones. To be smart enough to get all that money you must be dull enough to want it.”
“Among the roles Ive played on stage, television and in films were politicos as diverse as Abe Lincoln, Juan Peron, Herman Goering, George Wallace and both Roosevelts.”
“Among the rugged terrain, there is no need to question, for faith is found in silence and answers lay in places that do not speak back.”
Source: The Codex Bellum III: The Observer Effect
“Among the sayings and discourses imputed to him (i.e. Jesus) by his biographers, I find many passages of fine imagination, correct morality, and of the most lovely benevolence; and others again of so much ignorance, so much absurdity, so much untruth, charlatanism, and imposture, as to pronounce it impossible that such contradictions should have proceeded from the same being.”
“Among the scenes which are deeply impressed on my mind, none exceed in sublimity the primeval [tropical] forests, ... temples filled with the varied productions of the God of Nature. No one can stand in these solitudes unmoved, and not feel that there is more in man than the mere breath of his body.”
Source: What Mr. Darwin Saw in His Voyage Round the World in the Ship
“Among the sensations that inwardly torture us to the point of becoming pleasurable, the disquiet provoked by the world's mystery is one of the most common and complex.”
Source: The Book of Disquiet
“Among the sentiments of most powerful operation upon the human heart, and most highly honorable to the human character, are those of veneration for our forefathers and of love for our posterity.”
“Among the several cloudy appellatives which have been commonly employed as cloaks for misgovernment, there is none more conspicuous in this atmosphere of illusion than the word Order.”
Source: Works
“Among the several kinds of beauty, the eye takes most delight in colors.”
Source: The spectator
“Among the small number of things that I have liked and known how to do well, what I have assuredly known how to do best is drink. Even though I have read a lot, I have drunk even more. I have written much less than most people who write; but I have drunk much more than most people who drink.”
Source: Panegyric
“Among the smaller duties of life I hardly know any one more important than that of not praising where praise is not due.”
Source: Wit and Wisdom of the Rev. Sydney Smith
“Among the social sciences, economists are the snobs. Economics, with its numbers and graphs and curves, at least has the coloration and paraphernalia of a hard science. It's not just putting on sandals and trekking out to take notes on some tribe.”
“Among the songs I love best were those that I see as historically important, and helped change and develop my taste.”
“Among the songs I love best were those that I see as historically important, which help to change and develop my taste.”
“Among the Spartans all newly born children were subject to a careful examination or selection. All those that were weak, sickly, or affected with any bodily infirmity, were killed. Only the perfectly healthy and strong children were allowed to live, and they alone afterwards propagated the race.”
Source: The History of Creation: Or The Development of the Earth and Its Inhabitants by the Action of Natural Causes. A Popular Exposition of the Doctrine of Evolution in General, and of that of Darwin, Goethe, and Lamarck in Particular. From the 8th German Ed. of Ernst Haeckel ... The Translation Rev. by E. Ray Lankester
“Among the strongest memories of her past, she went on, was watching her mother in the kitchen. Agnes had tried revisiting this place in her painting - that blue kitchen of her childhood and adolescence, which was both a physical and an emotional landscape.”
Source: White on White
“Among the sufis, one attains purity not by ritual ablution, not by faith and worship, not by deed or merit, but by direct knowledge, experience, certainty, the drunkenness of ecstatic realization. Only this intoxication truly purifies the soul, because with this "wine" one becomes lost, and finds oneself, within the heart. One loses all separative delusions, the dirt of a muffled consciousness, and attains the One. This is to wander nude in the bazaar, like a naked Qalandar. But if the bazaar is shocked, then scandal belongs to the bazaar, not the dervish. Like a drunkard, the suf loses his reputation in the world because the world has lost its reputation with him. The petty bazaar stands accused of hypocrisy; the naked man stands before God.”
Source: Scandal: Essays in Islamic Heresy
“Among the supporters was Jack, who shouted, jeered and hurled abuse with hundreds of other like-minded dead souls.”
Source: New Reform
“Among the tales of sorrow and of ruin that came down to us from the darkness of those days there are yet some in which amid weeping there is joy and under the shadow of death light that endures. And of these histories most fair still in the ears of the Elves is the tale of Beren and Lúthien”
Source: The Silmarillion
“Among the things Billy Pilgrim could not change were the past, the present, and the future.”
Source: Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-five
“Among the things she said: "Women seem to possess all the natural gifts essential to a good portraitist ... such as personality, patience and intuition. The sitter ought to be the predominating factor in a successful portrait. Men portraitist are apt to forget this; they are inclined to lose the sitter in a maze of technique luxuriating in the cleverness and beauty of their own medium."”
“Among the things that have made my life so fulfilling are the people I have met and built relationships with on six continents.”
Source: Do More Good: Inspiring Lessons from Extraordinary People
“Among the things that you, and you alone, are the absolute and final judge of is whether or not you are a success.”
“Among the things you can give and still keep are your word, a smile, and a grateful heart.”
“Among the thousand white persons, I am a dark rock surged upon, and overswept.”
Source: I Love Myself when I Am Laughing ... and Then Again when I Am Looking Mean and Impressive: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader
“Among the Tibetans, one wife has many husbands, because men are too poor to support a whole wife.”
Source: The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell
“Among the top Google searches of 2014 were Ebola and the movie 'Frozen.' One leaves you with something highly infectious that's impossible to get out of your system. The other is Ebola.”
“Among the tortures and devestations of life is this then - our friends are not able to finish their stories.”
Source: The Waves
“Among the tramps were some real bruisers, that was certain, but there were also men who had been badly bruised.”
Source: Rolling Nowhere: Riding the Rails with America's Hoboes
“Among the trees, I have come to find that there is no age limit to exploration. There is no end to learning.”
Source: The Magic of Trees
“Among the types of thoughts that affect action, none is more central or pervasive than people's judgments of their capabilities to deal effectively with different realities”
Source: Social foundations of thought and action: a social cognitive theory
“Among the unexpected features of AI has been a lot of thinking about what a "job" is (versus a task). In an ideal world, we'd all end up working less & earning more money--yet somehow I have my doubts we'll structure things that way.”
“Among the unhappiest and most miserable people on earth are those, for reasons best known to them alone, pretend to be happy when indeed they are not.”