“England is perhaps the only great country whose intellectuals are ashamed of their own nationality. In left-wing circles it is always felt that there is something slightly disgraceful in being an Englishman and that it is a duty to snigger at every English institution, from horse racing to suet puddings. It is a strange fact, but it is unquestionably true that almost any English intellectual would feel more ashamed of standing to attention during God save the King than of stealing from a poor box.” FeelsCountryFactsLeftFeltPoorAttentionStrangeDutyKingsIntellectualStandingHorseEnglandInstitutionsWingsBoxesCirclesStealingAshamedRacingNationalityEnglishmenLeft WingGreat CountryPuddingDisgracefulHorse Racing Book:A Collection of Essays Source: A Collection of Essays
“My principal work now lies in tracing out the exact nature and conditions of utility. It seems strange indeed that economists have not bestowed more minute attention on a subject which doubtless furnishes the true key to the problems of economics.” ProblemSeemsLyingAttentionMinutesConditionsSubjectsStrangeKeysEconomicsPrincipalEconomistUtilityTracing Book:The Theory of Political Economy Source: The Theory of Political Economy
“Avan was as religious as the next young dragon with his way to make in the world-which is to say that he held many traditional beliefs which he had never paused to examine, attended church because it would have seemed strange not to, rarely paid much attention when he was there, and found piety out of the pulpit thoroughly misplaced.” WorldWayYoungNextFoundBeliefChurchReligiousAttentionStrangePaidTraditionalDragonsPietyPulpitMisplaced Book:Tooth and Claw Source: Tooth and Claw
“I've noticed that the children of other nations always seem precocious. That's because the strange manners of their elders have caught our attention most and the children echo those manners enough to seem like their parents.” ChildrenEnoughSeemsNationsParentAttentionStrangeCaughtMannersEchoesEldersPrecocious Author:F. Scott Fitzgerald
“When quite young I can remember I had no thought or wish of surpassing others. I was rather taken with a liking of little arts and bits of learning. My mother carefully fostered a liking for botany, giving me a small microscope and many books, which I yet have. Strange as it may seem, I now believe that botany and the natural system, by exercising discrimination of kinds, is the best of logical exercises. What I may do in logic is perhaps derived from that early attention to botany.” GivingBelieveKindMayLittlesArtI CanBookSeemsRememberYoungMotherWishBitsNaturalAttentionTakenStrangeExerciseLogicDiscriminationLogicalMicroscopesSurpassingBotany Author:William Stanley Jevons
“... every time you look at the world and the people in it closely, lovingly, imaginatively, it changes you. The world, under the microscope of your attention, opens up like a beautiful, strange flower and gives itself back to you in ways you could never imagine.” PeopleWorldWayGivingLooksBeautifulAttentionImagineStrangeFlowerMicroscopes Author:Kate DiCamillo
“There's a rhythm to the words combined with the pictures [in a comic]. Whenever I'm working on a comic strip I re-read it, probably hundreds of times through to pay attention to how all of those things work. Sometimes even changing the angle of a character's eyebrow can really, seriously alter the effect and overall interpretation of a scene. And the insertion of a pause or a cough or a sniff, and all these things that we do in conversation, can bring it to life in a strange way.” WaySometimesCharacterPayAttentionEffectsStrangeSceneConversationRhythmComicPay AttentionInterpretationPausesAngleEyebrowsComic Strips Author:Chris Ware
“Attention is a strange sort of being, anyway, the idea of attention if someone appreciates your work. It's always nice that someone appreciates your work.” IfsIdeasAttentionNiceStrangeAppreciateWorking ItAppreciate You Author:Johnny Depp
“People must have renounced, it seems to me, all natural intelligence to dare to advance that animals are but animated machines.... It appears to me, besides, that such people can never have observed with attention the character of animals, not to have distinguished among them the different voices of need, of suffering, of joy, of pain, of love, of anger, and of all their affections. It would be very strange that they should express so well what they could not feel.” PeopleNeedsFeelsShouldWellsDifferentCharacterSeemsWould BePainJoySufferingHumanityVoiceNaturalAnimalAttentionStrangeMachinesPhilosophicalAffectionDareCrueltyVeganAnimal RightsDistinguishedAnimatedAnimal WelfareAnimal CrueltyAnimal WorldAnimal LifeAnimal EthicsAnimal TestingKindness To AnimalsDifferent VoicesDifferent AnimalsAnimal SufferingAnimal IntelligenceNatural Intelligence Author:Voltaire
“The Universal Presence is a fact. God is here. And He is no strange or foreign God, but the familiar Father of our Lord Jesus Christ who love has for thousands of years enfolded the sinful race of men. And always He is trying to get our attention, to reveal Himself to us, to communicate with us. We have within us the ability to know Him if we will but respond to His overtures.” IfsKnowsMenTryingYearsFactsFatherJesusChristAbilityRaceAttentionLordStrangeJesus ChristUniversalCommunicateFamiliarOur LordLord Jesus ChristOur Lord Jesus Christ Author:Aiden Wilson Tozer