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book night men
Although I am an old man, night is generally my time for walking. Charles Dickens
book reading writing
There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.
book knowledge men
Mathematicians have sought knowledge in figures, Philosophers in systems, Logicians in subtleties, and Metaphysicians in sounds. It is not in any nor in all of these. He that studies only men, will get the body of knowledge without the soul, and he that studies only books, the soul without the body. Charles Caleb Colton
book reading advice
When in reading we meet with any maxim that may be of use, we should take it for our own, and make an immediate application of it, as we would of the advice of a friend whom we have purposely consulted.
book merit lovers
We should choose our books as we would our companions, for their sterling and intrinsic merit.
book reading writing
Some read to think, these are rare; some to write, these are common; and some read to talk, and these form the great majority.
book reading writing
Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them.
book writing companion
With books, as with companions, it is of more consequence to know which to avoid, than which to choose, for good books are as scarce as good companions, and in both instances, all that we can learn from baad ones is, that some much time has been worse than thrown away.
book men soul
He that studies only men will get the body of knowledge without the soul; and he that studies only books, the soul without the body.
individual express-yourself circumstances
Circumstances beyond my individual control.
individual-effort achievement done
The greatest works are done by the ones. The hundreds do not often do much-the companies never; it is the units-the single individuals, that are the power and the might. Individual effort is, after all, the grand thing. Charles Spurgeon
individual enjoyment incapable
Nothing satisfies an individual incapable of enjoyment. Alan Watts
individual circumstances values
Life's values originate in circumstances over which the individual has no control. Charles Lindbergh
individuality apes firsts
It was their individuality combined with the shyness of their behavior that remained the most captivating impression of this first encounter with the greatest of the great apes. Dian Fossey
individual-effort generations lifetime
The very worst impulses of humankind can survive generations, centuries, even millennia. And the best of our individual efforts can die with us at the end of a single lifetime. Elizabeth Kostova
individual ends made
The sobering thought is that individuals and societies are not, in the end, remembered for how they made their money, but for how they spent it. Charles Handy
individual promising recognized
What's so promising about this is that we have all recognized as individual organizations that we can't do this alone. Bret Bicoy
individuality promise fruit
They are a very extensive minority who have suffered discrimination and who have the same right to participation in the promise and fruits of society as every other individual. Bella Abzug
curious capability
I'm definitely curious about what the new iPhone and it's video editing capabilities will lend to that. Casey Neistat
curious harp medicine music office poet poets tune
The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, because the office of medicine is but to tune the curious harp of man's body. Francis Bacon
curious innocence joy time tony work
Tony Curtis was a joy to work with. He had a curious innocence that is very young and wise at the same time. Nicolas Roeg
curious damn experiment figure full next physics somebody whether works
I'm doing physics because I'm curious about how it works - full speed ahead, damn the torpedoes, don't worry about whether somebody is going to be able to do an experiment next week, just figure it out. Leonard Susskind
curious nearly people since three turned
Since I've been doing this I've only been turned down three times, once nearly by gunpoint, ... Most people are curious to see if there was something on their property.
curious everybody happens year
We're as curious as everybody else to see what happens when the new year starts.
curious poets satisfy terribly
While I don't satisfy my curiosity about the way I work, I'm terribly curious about the way other poets work. But I would think that's true about many of us. Thom Gunn
curious expect genes logical lots might seemed
We were curious to see where these things might come from in the first place, so it seemed that was a logical place to start. I expect lots of these (drug-resistant) genes are peppered all over the microbial community.
curious growing human mad matter respect subject truest whatever
The things that I have said when I was young and curious about whatever the subject matter was, I respect those - those are growing pains. Even if you make mistakes, I go back to those things, my not-so-great moments because those are my truest moments; those are my human moments. I'm not even mad at the things I said that were a little dicey. Nas