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“I have a certain sensibility that I bring to my writing that comes from knowing two things: what I as a reader like to read, and what as a writer I am capable of. I know my own limits. I know there are things I cannot do.”

Knows Writing Two Certain My Own Knowing Reader Limits Capable Two Things Sensibility

Author:Paullina Simons

“Commemoration of Gilbert of Sempringham, Founder of the Gilbertine Order, 1189 Some there are who presume so far on their wits that they think themselves capable of measuring the whole nature of things by their intellect, in that they esteem all things true which they see, and false which they see not. Accordingly, in order that man's mind might be freed from this presumption, and seek the truth humbly, it was necessary that certain things far surpassing his intellect should be proposed to man by God.”

Thinking Men Should Mind Whole Might Certain Order Capable All Things Intellect Wit Esteem Founders Measuring Presumption Surpassing Commemoration

Author:Thomas Aquinas

“I think of the people who commit these acts as children. They're in their 20s, but like certain children, they have been told only one story, over and over. Like most children, they believe in an easily identifiable good and evil, and like most children, they are capable of unthinkable cruelty.”

People Thinking Believe Children Has Beens Stories Certain Evil Capable Commit Cruelty Good And Evil Unthinkable

Author:Michael Cunningham

“There is an elasticity in the human mind, capable of bearing much, but which will not show itself, until a certain weight of affliction be put upon it; its powers may be compared to those vehicles whose springs are so contrived that they get on smoothly enough when loaded, but jolt confoundedly when they have nothing to bear.”

Mind Humans May Enough Shows Certain Bears Capable Spring Weight Adversity Human Mind Vehicle Affliction Loaded Elasticity

Book:Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan

Source: Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan

“My father died when I was two years old. But my mother was quite capable. She raised three children with his war pension which was peanuts. Yet we did not want for anything. We grew up with a certain parsimony, which is a nice thing. Then if life gives you more good, otherwise you get used to. I'm still thrifty.”

“Our mind, by virtue of a certain finite, limited capability, is by no means capable of putting a question to Nature that permits a continuous series of answers. The observations, the individual results of measurements, are the answers of Nature to our discontinuous questioning.”

Mind Mean Certain Individual Answers Results Virtue Capable Series Observation Permit Capability Questioning Finite Measurement

Author:Erwin Schrodinger

“It was both fascinating and appalling to learn that chimpanzees were capable of hostile and territorial behavior that was not unlike certain forms of primitive human warfare.”

Humans Form Certain Behavior Capable Fascinating Primitive Warfare Hostile Chimpanzees Territorial

Book:Reason for Hope: A Spiritual Journey

Source: Reason for Hope: A Spiritual Journey

“It might be a good idea to have government totally by the people - that each person takes four or five hours of the week doing some kind of government job - in other words, along with what you do you also help maintain the government so no one person has total control - I might go down to an office for four hours and do whatever I'm capable of doing - writing out receipts for food distribution in a certain area - but it's all actually a monstrous secretarial job and that's all I think it should be.”

People Thinking Should Writing Kind Persons Ideas Helping Government Might Jobs Certain Hours Five Four Week Office Capable Areas Good Ideas Distribution Monstrous Receipts Government Jobs

Author:Grace Slick

“I realize that there are certain hardships that only females must endure, such as childbirth, waiting in lines for public-restroom stalls, and a crippling, psychotic obsession with shoe color. Also, females tend to reach emotional maturity very quickly, so that by age 7 they are no longer capable of seeing the humor in loud inadvertent public blasts of flatulence, whereas males can continue to derive vast enjoyment from this well into their 80s.”

“It is hard to mesmerize ourselves, to whip our own top; but through sympathy we are capable of energy and endurance. Concert fires people to a certain fury of performance they can rarely reach alone.”

People Hard Certain Energy Fire Capable Performances Endurance Concerts Fury Whips

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)

“We often tend to think that the executive wishes to maintain standard, wishes to reach a certain quality of production, and that the worker has to be goaded in some way to do this. Again and again we forget that the worker is often, usually I think, equally interested, that his greatest pleasure in his work comes from the satisfaction of worthwhile accomplishment, of having done the best of which he was capable.”

“Certain souls seem hard because they are capable of strong feelings, and they sometimes go to rather extreme lengths; their apparent unconcern and cruelty are but ways, known only to themselves, of feeling more strongly than others.”

Way Soul Sometimes Hard Feelings Wisdom Seems Certain Time Strong Change Ability Known Knowledge Strength Capable Extremes Cruelty Length Strong Feeling

Book:The 120 days of Sodom and other writings

Source: The 120 days of Sodom and other writings

“We will never be enlightened unless we realize and own what our capacity, from the best of the best to the worst of the worst because then we have more empathy, more compassion, more sympathy for others who do things that are hurtful and harmful and we see, given certain situations, I'm capable of that myself. So, I'm less judgmental.”

Certain Given Peace Realizing Compassion Situation Worst Capable Empathy Capacity Enlightened Judgmental Hurtful Best Of The Best

Author:Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

“At certain periods of history it is only poetry that is capable of dealing with reality by condensing it into something graspable, something that otherwise wouldn't be retained by the mind.”

Mind Reality Certain Periods Capable

Author:Joseph Brodsky

“It is an odd fact of evolution that we are the only species on Earth capable of creating science and philosophy. There easily could have been another species with some scientific talent, say that of the average human ten-year-old, but not as much as adult humans have; or one that is better than us at physics but worse at biology; or one that is better than us at everything. If there were such creatures all around us, I think we would be more willing to concede that human scientific intelligence might be limited in certain respects.”

“Who can confidently say what ignites a certain combination of words, causing them to explode in the mind? Who knows why certain notes in music are capable of stirring the listener deeply, though the same notes slightly rearranged are impotent? These are high mysteries, and this chapter is a mystery story, thinly disguised.”

Knows Mind Stories Certain Mystery Capable Notes Combination Chapters Listeners Stirring Ignite

Book:the elements of style

Source: the elements of style

“Photography has arrived at the point where it is capable of liberating painting from all literature, from the anecdote, and even from the subject. In any case, a certain aspect of the subject now belongs to the domain of photography. So shouldn't painters profit from their newly acquired liberty, and make use of it to do other things?”

Use Certain Literature Liberty Cases Subjects Painting Photography Capable Aspect Profit Painter Domain Liberating Anecdotes

Author:Pablo Picasso

“As some of the lowest organisms, in which nerves cannot be detected, are capable of perceiving light, it does not seem impossible that certain sensitive elements in their sarcode should become aggregated and developed into nerves, endowed with this special sensibility.”

Should Doe Light Seems Certain Impossible Special Elements Capable Sensitive Nerves Sensibility Organisms Lowest Natural Selection

Book:On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, Or The Preservation of Favored Races in the Struggle for Life

Source: On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, Or The Preservation of Favored Races in the Struggle for Life

“There are certain phrases in books of mine, and I don't know where they came from, or how I was capable of thinking up these formulations. It's only in the heat of composition that these things occur to you.”

Thinking Knows Book Certain Mines Capable Heat Phrases Composition

Author:Paul Auster

“Computers are only capable of a certain kind of randomness because computers are finite devices.”

Kind Certain Computer Capable Devices Finite Randomness

Author:Tristan Perich

“Acting is kind of a forced compassion, where you learn that given certain circumstances, you can feel and do things that you never thought yourself capable of. And so it stops you from being super-judgmental.”

Feels Kind Certain Given Acting Compassion Circumstances Capable Judgmental

Author:Susan Sarandon

“Still I believe that Hanna Arendt, she was wrong when she tried to say that we are all actually capable of this, it's not true. I think it's not true. There are certain things human beings are not capable of. I mean people, even normal human beings. You have to do certain things in order to become what the enemy was and I didn't accept her philosophical outlook on that.”

People Thinking Believe Humans Mean Stills Certain Order I Believe Human Beings Accepting Enemy Normal Capable Philosophical Outlook Mean People

Author:Elie Wiesel

“I'm fully capable of multitasking certain conceptual concerns within the work.”

Certain Capable Concern Multitasking

Author:Kehinde Wiley

“Perhaps only people who are capable of real togetherness have that look of being alone in the universe. The others have a certain stickiness, they stick to the mass.”

People Looks Real Certain Universe Mass Capable Sticks Togetherness

Book:Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)

“I did not believe him capable of love. That is an emotion in which tenderness is an essential part, but Strickland had no tenderness either for himself or for others; there is in love a sense of weakness, a desire to protect, an eagerness to do good and to give pleasure--if not unselfishness, at all events a selfishness which marvellously conceals itself; it has in it a certain diffidence.”

Ifs Giving Believe Desire Certain Pleasure Emotion Events Protect Essentials Capable Weakness Selfishness Tenderness Eagerness Unselfishness Diffidence

Book:The Moon and Sixpence

Source: The Moon and Sixpence

“Whatever is fitted in any sort to excite the ideas of pain and danger, that is to say, whatever is in any sort terrible, or is conversant about terrible objects, or operates in a manner analogous to terror, is a source of the sublime; that is, it is productive of the strongest emotion which the mind is capable of feeling... When danger or pain press too nearly, they are incapable of giving any delight, and are simply terrible; but at certain distances, and with certain modifications, they may be, and they are, delightful, as we every day experience.”

Giving Mind May Ideas Feelings Pain Certain Emotion Danger Objects Source Terrible Capable Presses Terror Delight Productive Strongest Incapable Sublime Delightful Modification Sublimity

Author:Edmund Burke

“Does he love me? “You’re asking the wrong question. What you need to know is are you in a position to give him the love he needs. And whatever happens or doesn’t happen will be equally gratifying, knowing that you are capable of love is enough. If it isn’t him, it will be someone else… Don’t try to keep a safe distance so as to see what happens. Don’t wait to be certain before you take a step. What you give, you will receive, although it might sometimes come from the place you least expect.”

Ifs Knows Love Needs Giving Trying Doe Sometimes Enough Might Happens Certain Waiting Love Is Steps Knowing Position Safe Capable Asking Distance Whatever Happens

Author:Paulo Coelho

“To truly esteem oneself means that one must be capable of feeling shame or self-disgust when one does not live up to a certain standard”

Mean Doe Self Feelings Certain Capable Standards Shame Oneself Esteem Disgusting

Book:The End of History and the Last Man

Source: The End of History and the Last Man

“There is little hope of the repentance and redemption of certain some until they have committed one or another of the many wrong things of which they are daily, through a course of unrestrained selfishness, becoming more and more capable.”

Littles Certain Courses Becoming Capable Committed Redemption Selfishness Repentance Wrong Things Becoming More

Book:Delphi Complete Works of George MacDonald (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of George MacDonald (Illustrated)

“All great fighting is the same, Eragon, even as all great warriors are the same. Past a certain point, it does not matter whether you wield a sword, a claw, a tooth or a tail. It is true, you must be capable with your weapon, but anyone with the time, and the inclination can acquire technical proficiency. To achieve greatness, though, that requires artistry. That requires imagination and thoughtfulness, and it is those qualities that the best warriors share, even if, on the surface, they appear completely different.”

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