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“From the moment I start a new novel, life's just one endless torture. The first few chapters may go fairly well and I may feel there's still a chance to prove my worth, but that feeling soon disappears and every day I feel less and less satisfied.”

Feels Firsts Wells May Stills Moments Feelings Chance Novel Prove Disappear Endless Satisfied Torture Just One Chapters Dissatisfaction

Author:Emile Zola

“I usually have an immediate recognition of the potential image, and I have found that too much concern about matters such as conventional composition may take the edge off the first inclusive reaction.”

Firsts May Matter Found Too Much Concern Edges Reactions Recognition Conventional Composition

Author:Ansel Adams

“In our amusements a certain limit is to be placed that we may not devote ourselves to a life of pleasure and thence fall into immorality.”

May Certain Fall Pleasure Limits Amusement Immorality

Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero

“As paradoxical as it may seem a great sculptor is as much a colourist as the best painter, or rather the best engraver. He plays so skillfully with all the resources of relief, he blends so well the boldness of light with the modesty of shadow, that his sculptures please one, as much as the most charming etchings.”

Wells May Play Light Seems Please Shadow Resources Painter Relief Modesty Charming Sculpture Boldness Sculptors Paradoxical Etching

Book:Rodin on Art and Artists

Source: Rodin on Art and Artists

“Logic is a system whereby one may go wrong with confidence.”

May Logic

Author:Charles Kettering

“There are many persons of whom it may be said that they have no other possession in the world but their character, and yet they stand as firmly upon it as any crowned king.”

World May Persons Said Character Kings Possession

Book:Character

Source: Character

“All experiences of life seems to prove that the impediments thrown in the way of the human advancement may for the most part be overcome by steady good conduct, honest zeal, activity, perseverance and above all, by a determined resolution to surmount.”

Way Humans May Seems Honest Activity Prove Overcoming Perseverance Determined Thrown Resolution Steady Advancement Zeal Impediments

Book:Self-help: With Illustrations of Character and Conduct

Source: Self-help: With Illustrations of Character and Conduct

“Fly away, pretty moth, to the shade Of the leaf where you slumbered all day; Be content with the moon and the stars, pretty moth, And make use of your wings while you may. . . . . But tho' dreams of delight may have dazzled you quite, They at last found it dangerous play; Many things in this world that look bright, pretty moth, Only dazzle to lead us astray.”

World Looks May Play Use Dream Lasts Found Stars Dangerous This World Moon Wings Delight Shade Leafs Moths Fly Away Dazzle

Book:Songs, Ballads, and Other Poems

Source: Songs, Ballads, and Other Poems

“My career as a critic still lay in the future but unconsciously I may have been preparing for it. They were not easy companions, these intellectuals I was now getting to know. They were overbearing and arrogant, excessively competitive; they lacked magnanimity and often they lacked common courtesy. But they were intellectually energetic and - this particularly attracted me - they were proof against cant.”

Source: The Beginning of the Journey: The Marriage of Diana and Lionel Trilling

“A false mind is false in everything, just as a cross eye always looks askant. But one may err once, nay, a hundred times, without being double-minded. There can never be mental duplicity where there is sincerity.”

Mind Looks May Eye Hundred Crosses Deceit Sincerity Duplicity Double Minded

Book:Pensées of Joubert

Source: Pensées of Joubert

“The art of saying well what one thinks is different from the faculty of thinking. The latter may be very deep and lofty and far- reaching, while the former is altogether wanting.”

Thinking Wells May Art Different Former Reaching Latter Faculty Eloquence Lofty Very Deep

Book:Pensées of Joubert

Source: Pensées of Joubert

“Necessity may render a doubtful act innocent, but it cannot make it praiseworthy”

May Praise Innocent Doubtful Praiseworthy

Book:Pensées of Joubert

Source: Pensées of Joubert

“Feminist art may... though perhaps our imaginations are so mutilated now that we are incapable even of the ambition, introduce a new theme... should we call it 'joy'?”

Should May Art Joy Imagination Ambition Feminist Theme Introducing Incapable Flawless Creeks Feminist Art

Author:Andrea Dworkin

“As you may know, KFC is under worldwide pressure to eliminate its cruelest abuses of chickens, such as cutting the beaks off baby birds; breeding chickens to grow so large, so quickly that many suffer crippling injuries; and slitting the birds' throats or dropping them into tanks of scalding-hot water while they are still alive and able to feel pain.”

Knows Feels May Stills Able Pain Suffering Grows Water Cutting Alive Baby Bird Abuse Pressure Hot Injury Chickens Throat Dropping Tanks Breeding Hot Water Beaks Kfc

Author:Pamela Anderson

“Spring goeth all in white, / Crowned with milk-white may: / In fleecy flocks of light / O'er heaven the white clouds stray.”

May Light Heaven White Spring Clouds Milk Flocks Goeth White Clouds

Book:Poetical Works Of Robert Brides Excluding The Eight Dramas

Source: Poetical Works Of Robert Brides Excluding The Eight Dramas

“Stones of small worth may lie unseen by day, But night itself does the rich gem betray.”

May Doe Lying Night Rich Stones Betray Unseen Jewels Gems

Book:The Works ... Re-edited. - London, G. Kearsley 1806

Source: The Works ... Re-edited. - London, G. Kearsley 1806

“Ah, yet, e'er I descend to th' grave, May I a small House and a large Garden have. And a few Friends, and many Books both true, Both wise, and both delightful too. And since Love ne'er will from me flee, A mistress moderately fair, And good as Guardian angels are, Only belov'd and loving me.”

May Book House Wise Angel Fairs Garden Possession Graves Delightful Guardian Mistress Guardian Angel Few Friends Loving Me

Author:Abraham Cowley

“Time may enhance what seems simply dogged or lacking in fantasy now because we are too close to it, because it resembles too closely our own everyday fantasies, the fantastic nature of which we don't perceive. We are better able to enjoy a fantasy as a fantasy when it is not our own.”

May Seems Able Enjoy Fantasy Everyday Fantastic Perceive Lacking

Book:A Susan Sontag reader

Source: A Susan Sontag reader

“A single inattention may lose a chess game, whereas a single successful approach to a problem, among many which have been relegated to the wastebasket, will make a mathematician's reputation.”

May Has Beens Problem Games Loses Successful Approach Chess Reputation Mathematician Chess Game Inattention

Book:Ex-prodigy: My Childhood and Youth

Source: Ex-prodigy: My Childhood and Youth

“I am almost sure to be blotted out by death, but sometimes I think it is not impossible that I may continue to live in some other manner after my physical death . Or, as Hamlet wonders, what dreams will come when we leave this body?”

Thinking May Sometimes Dream Body Wonder Impossible Impossibility

Book:Jorge Luis Borges: Conversations

Source: Jorge Luis Borges: Conversations

“From powerful causes spring the empiric's gains, Man's love of life, his weakness, and his pains; These first induce him the vile trash to try, Then lend his name, that other men may buy.”

Men Trying Firsts May Pain Names Causes Powerful Spring Weakness Gains Love Life Trash Quackery

Book:The Poetical Works with His Letters and Journals and His Life by His Son. - London, John Murray 1834

Source: The Poetical Works with His Letters and Journals and His Life by His Son. - London, John Murray 1834

“No-one can compel me to be happy in accordance with his conception of the welfare of others, for each may seek his happiness in whatever way he sees fit, so long as he does not infringe upon the freedom of others to pursue a similar end which can be reconciled with the freedom of everyone else within a workable general law ? i.e. he must accord to others the same right as he enjoys himself.”

Way May Long Doe Ends Law Enjoy Fit Pursue Welfare Conception Accord

Book:Kant: Political Writings

Source: Kant: Political Writings

“Encourage virtue in whatever heart it may have been driven into secrecy and sorrow by the shame and terror of the world.”

World Heart May Has Beens Virtue Sorrow Shame Terror Driven Secrecy

Book:The Time of Your Life

Source: The Time of Your Life

“Let us waste no further time looking for the secret of success or the key to happiness. Already the door is open and whosoever will, may enter.”

May Happiness Secret Doors Keys Waste Secret To Success Key To Happiness

Book:The Science of Mind: The Definitive Edition

Source: The Science of Mind: The Definitive Edition

“Fashion--a word which knaves and fools may use, Their knavery and folly to excuse.”

May Use Fashion Fool Excuse Folly Knaves Knavery

Author:Charles Churchill

“The Word of God must be Read and Heard with Diligence that so you may arrive to the Knowledge that is needful for you.”

May Heard Word Of God Diligence

Author:Cotton Mather

“In Africa people learn to serve each other. They live on credit balances of little favors that they give and may, one day, ask to have returned.”

People Giving May Littles Asks Balance One Day Credit Favors

Book:The Illustrated West with the Night

Source: The Illustrated West with the Night

“In this era of world leadership, the metal detector is the altar and the minicam may be god.”

World May Technology Eras Metals Altars World Leader Metal Detectors

Author:Hugh Sidey

“Kings may be judges of the earth, but wise men are the judges of kings.”

Men May Wisdom Earth Wise Judging Kings

Author:Solomon Ibn Gabirol

“Friendly satire may be compared to a fine lancet, which gently breathes a vein for health's sake.”

May Fine Sake Breathe Friendly Satire Veins

Author:Samuel Richardson

“Sheep are not considered the most intelligent animals but British scientist say humans may have underestimated the woolly creatures. In fact, the British scientific community is even suggesting that the animals might even be "Irish-smart.".”

Humans May Facts Might Community Animal Creatures Smart Scientist Intelligent British Sheep Suggesting Underestimated Being Irish

Author:Jon Stewart

“Now you may do it badly, you may do it well, some people like you, some people hate you, all the rest of it - but you have got a real motivating life purpose. [on being Prime Minister”

People Wells May Real Purpose Hate Like You Ministers Prime Purpose Of Life Prime Minister Hate You

Author:Tony Blair

“No theoretician, no writer on art, however interesting he or she might be, could be as interesting as Picasso. A good writer on art may give you an insight to Picasso, but, after all, Picasso was there first.”

Giving Firsts May Art Might Interesting Masters Insight Good Writers

Book:Hockney on photography: conversations with Paul Joyce

Source: Hockney on photography: conversations with Paul Joyce

“It must be an independent House, having a free action of its own, for it is only valuable as being a regulating body, calmly considering the legislation initiated by the popular branch, and preventing any hasty or ill considered legislation which may come from that body, but it will never set itself in opposition against the deliberate and understood wishes of the people.”

People May Body Action House Wish Understood Independent Ill Valuable Branches Opposition Considering Legislation Deliberate Preventing Hasty

Author:John A. Macdonald

“There is, first, the desire for strength, for achievement, for adequacy, for confidence in the face of the world, and for independence and freedom. Secondly, we have what we may call the desire for reputation or prestige”

World Firsts May Faces Desire Fame Achievement Independence Reputation Prestige Independence And Freedom Adequacy

Book:A Theory of Human Motivation

Source: A Theory of Human Motivation

“You may boldly say, you did not plough Or trust the barren and ungrateful sands With the fruitful grain of your religious counsels.”

May Religious Failure Sand Grain Barren Ungrateful

Book:The bandman. The renegado. The parliament of love. The Roman actor. The great Duke of Florence

Source: The bandman. The renegado. The parliament of love. The Roman actor. The great Duke of Florence

“It becomes possible to admit that plainness may coexist with nobility of nature, and fine features with baseness; and yet to hold that mental and physical perfection are fundamentally connected, and will, when the present causes of incongruity have worked themselves out, be ever found united.”

May Found Causes United Beauty Fine Perfection Connected Features Nobility Coexist Baseness Incongruity Plainness

Author:Herbert Spencer

“It is frequently more rewarding merely to ask pertinent questions. It may get someone to go and look for an answer.”

Looks May Asks Answers Pertinent Pertinent Questions

Author:Prince Philip

“If we desire to live securely, comfortably, and quietly, that by all honest means we should endeavor to purchase the good will of all men, and provoke no man's enmity needlessly; since any man's love may be useful, and every man's hatred is dangerous.”

Ifs Men Should May Mean Desire Honest Dangerous Hatred Every Man Endeavor Temper Provoking Good Will Enmity Desire To Live

Book:The Sermons and Expository Treatises of Isaac Barrow: With a Life of the Author

Source: The Sermons and Expository Treatises of Isaac Barrow: With a Life of the Author

“In autumn even though I may see it again, how can I sleep with the moon this evening?”

May Sleep Moon Evening Autumn

Author:Dogen

“Mother love has been much maligned. An over mothered boy may go through life expecting each new woman to love him the way his mother did. Her love may make any other love seem inadequate. But an unloved boy would be even more likely to idealize love. I don't think it's possible for a mother or father to love a child too much.”

Thinking Way May Children Has Beens Seems Would Be Mother Father Family Boys Too Much Expecting Inadequate Mother Love Unloved

Author:Frank Pittman

“As to posterity, I may ask what has it ever done to oblige me?”

May Done Asks Posterity

Book:The works of Thomas Gray

Source: The works of Thomas Gray

“It may well be that the pictures of Courbet, Manet, Monet and their like contain beauties which escape the notice of such old romantic heads as ours, already streaked with silver threads.”

Wells May Aging Silver Thread Monet

Author:Theophile Gautier

“They tend to be civil servants, often diplomats drawn from the Foreign Office, who may be very pleasant, intelligent people, but once they get inside the Palace they're riveted to the status quo and they lose track of public opinion in the real world.”

People World May Real Literature Loses Opinion Office Intelligent Track Servant Pleasant Real World Status Quo Public Opinion Palaces Diplomats Civil Servants

Author:Anthony Holden

“It is harder to avoid censure than to gain applause; for this may be done by one great or wise action in an age. But to escape censure a man must pass his whole life without saying or doing one ill or foolish thing”

Men May Done Whole Age Action Wise Gains Harder Ill Whole Life Foolish Applause Censure

Author:David Hume

“Luxury is a word of uncertain signification, and may be taken in a good as in a bad sense”

May Taken Luxury Uncertain

Book:Writings on Economics

Source: Writings on Economics

“I don't consider an actor a star if he's paid $20 million and grimaces in front of the camera and has a stunt man stand in for him. They may be fine actors, but they're not role models. The real stars are wearing body armor in 130-degree heat . . . They're getting shot at and they don't have any stunt doubles standing in for them.”

Ifs Men May Real Body Actors Stars Roles Millions Fronts Fine Degrees Models Shots Standing Paid Cameras Heat Role Models Armor Grimace

Author:Ben Stein

“Agriculture is for living; mind culture is for life. Skills are for shaping material things so that they cater more for the comfort of man; studies are for shaping attitudes, feelings, desires, emotions and impulses of man, so that they may confer more peace, more joy and more fortitude on man.”

Men Mind May Feelings Joy Desire Culture Emotion Attitude Study Materials Comfort Skills Impulse Agriculture Fortitude Material Things Life Skills

Author:Sathya Sai Baba

“Since I move about with you, eat like you, and talk with you, you are deluded in the belief that this is but an instance of common humanity. Be warned against this mistake. I am also deluding you by My singing with you, talking with you, and engaging Myself in activities with you. But, any movement, My Divinity may be revealed to you; you have to be ready, prepared for that moment.”

May Moments Moving Humanity Belief Common Mistake Talking Movement Ready Like You Activity Singing Prepared Instance Divinity That Moment Engaging Deluded Common Humanity

Author:Sathya Sai Baba

“Everyday, the mail brings the thousands of letters, and you hand over to Me personally hundreds more. Yet, I do not take the help of anyone else, even to open the envelopes. For, you write to me intimate details of your personal problems, believing that I alone will read them and having implicit confidence in Me. You write, each one only a single letter, that makes for Me a huge bundle a day; and I have to go through all of them. You may ask how I manage it? Well I do not waste a single moment.”

Writing Believe Wells May Moments Helping Problem Hands Asks Huge Waste Letters Everyday Details Manage Intimate Mail Single Mom Envelopes Bundles Implicit Personal Problems

Author:Sathya Sai Baba

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