“Blessed the one who has kept the mastery of his eyelids and has not deceived himself with either mind or sense with regard to the skin of the flesh that after a little while oozes putrefaction.” MindLittlesSkinsRegardBlessedSaintFleshMasteryDeceivedEyelids Author:Ephrem the Syrian
“Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral. The size of the project means little in art, beyond the money matter. It is the quality of the character that really counts.” MeanLittlesArtMatterCharacterHouseQualityAdviceProjectsArt IsRegardSizeChickensDesirableCathedralsMoney Matters Book:Frank Lloyd Wright Collected Writings: 1930-1932 Source: Frank Lloyd Wright Collected Writings: 1930-1932
“Who can tell us of the inhabitants of this little planet that shines of an evening, called the moon?...when you inquire about the inhabitants of that sphere you find that the most learned are as ignorant in regard to them as the most ignorant of their fathers. So it is in regard to the inhabitants of the sun. Do you think it is inhabited? I rather think it is. Do you think there is any life there? No question of it; it was not made in vain. It was made to give light to those who dwell upon it, and to other planets; and so will this earth when it is celestialized” ThinkingGivingLittlesMadeLightEarthFatherSunPlanetsMoonRegardShiningIgnorantEveningVainSpheres Author:Brigham Young
“The great menace of civilization in the present is that we offer an education with too little regard for the roots.” LittlesCivilizationOffersRootsRegardGreat MenMenace Author:Vincent Massey
“We must remember that those mortals we meet in parking lots, offices, elevators, and elsewhere are that portion of mankind God has given us to love and to serve. It will do us little good to speak of the general brotherhood of mankind if we cannot regard those who are all around us as our brothers and sisters.” IfsLittlesRememberSpeakGivenMankindBrotherOfficeRegardMortalsBrotherhoodPortionsElsewhereBrothers And SistersParkingElevatorsParking Lot Author:Spencer W. Kimball
“I like to summarize what I regard as the pedestal-smashing messages of Darwin's revolution in the following statement, which might be chanted several times a day, like a Hare Krishna mantra, to encourage penetration into the soul: Humans are not the end result of predictable evolutionary progress, but rather a fortuitous cosmic afterthought, a tiny little twig on the enormously arborescent bush of life, which, if replanted from seed, would almost surely not grow this twig again, or perhaps any twig with any property that we would care to call consciousness.” IfsHumansLittlesSoulEndsMightCareGrowsResultsConsciousnessProgressRevolutionMessagesRegardPropertyFollowingSeedsTinyStatementsCosmicPredictableKrishnaMantrasPedestalEnd ResultsHaresSmashingTwigsPenetrationAfterthoughtFortuitousHare Krishna Author:Stephen Jay Gould
“Herbert Spencer is little read now. Philosophers do not regard him as a major thinker. Social Darwinism has long been in disrepute.” LittlesLongSocialMajorsRegardPhilosopherThinkerDarwinismSocial Darwinism Book:The Expanding Circle: Ethics, Evolution, and Moral Progress Source: The Expanding Circle: Ethics, Evolution, and Moral Progress
“We live thetime that a match flickers; we pop the corkof a ginger-beer bottle, and the earthquake swallows us on the instant. Is it not odd, is it not incongruous, is it not, in the highest sense of human speech, incredible, that we should think so highly of the ginger-beer, and regard so little the devouring earthquake?” ThinkingShouldHumansLittlesSpeechHighestRegardIncrediblesPopsBeerOddInstantBottlesEarthquakesFlickerDevouringGinger Author:Robert Louis Stevenson