Quotes and Sayings about Hens
"Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak."
- John Adams
(Related: Power, Soul)
"At Athens, wise men propose, and fools dispose."
- Alcuin
(Related: Men, Athens, Fools)
"The apostles were moved, not so much by an intellectual apprehension, as by a spiritual illumination. They met men, and the need of those men whom they met cried aloud to them."
- Roland Allen
(Related: Men, Spiritual)
"A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side."
- Aristotle
(Related: God, Religion, Gods, Appearance, Devotion, Treatment)
"All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar's teeth."
- Antonin Artaud
(Related: Language)
"It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage."
- Jane Austen
(Related: Marriage, Man, Woman)
"Not longer loved or fostered by religion, beauty is lifted from its face as a mask, and its absence exposes features on that face which threaten to become incomprehensible to man."
- Hans Urs von Balthasar
(Related: Beauty, Religion, Absence, Man)
"Wisdom is that apprehension of heavenly things to which the spirit rises through love."
- Honore de Balzac
(Related: Love, Wisdom, Spirit)
"But every act in consequence of our faith, strengthens faith."
- Anna Letitia Barbauld
(Related: Faith, Act)
"And this week, I am proposing legislation to strengthen our Open Records laws to make public access to our public records surer, faster, and more comprehensive."
- Roy Barnes
(Related: Laws, Legislation, Open, Public)
"We are weighed down, every moment, by the conception and the sensation of Time. And there are but two means of escaping and forgetting this nightmare: pleasure and work. Pleasure consumes us. Work strengthens us. Let us choose."
- Charles Baudelaire
(Related: Work, Time, Pleasure)
"There is an immense, painful longing for a broader, more flexible, fuller, more coherent, more comprehensive account of what we human beings are, who we are and what this life is for."
- Saul Bellow
(Related: Life, Longing)
"Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality."
- Henri Bergson
(Related: Intellect, Reality)
"If we admit a thing so extraordinary as the creation of this world, it should seem that we admit something strange, and odd, and new to human apprehension, beyond any other miracle whatsoever."
- George Berkeley
(Related: Creation, World)
"Thus, the more succinctly a train of thought was expounded, and the more comprehensive the unity of its basic idea, the closer it would approximate to the prerequisites of the mathematical way of thinking."
- Max Bill
(Related: Thought, Idea, Thinking, Unity)
"The reason it takes us from November the second to December the sixth to certify is because we have a very tedious, very comprehensive process where we audit by precinct, across the state, every vote that was cast to make sure that every vote that was legally cast is counted."
- Kenneth Blackwell
(Related: December, Reason, State, Vote)
"The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency - the belief that the here and now is all there is."
- Allan Bloom
(Related: Belief, Failure, Vision, Books, Now)
"While farmers generally allow one rooster for ten hens, ten men are scarcely sufficient to service one woman."
- Giovanni Boccaccio
(Related: Men, Hens, Service, Woman)
"To be immortal is commonplace; except for man, all creatures are immortal, for they are ignorant of death; what is divine, terrible, incomprehensible, is to know that one is immortal."
- Jorge Luis Borges
(Related: Death, Man)
"The American people know that every day 3,000 kids begin to smoke, 1,000 of them die an early death. They're not going to allow us to go forward this year and not have comprehensive bipartisan legislation. It's in everybody's best interest."
- Erskine Bowles
(Related: Death, People, American, Day, Interest, Kids, Legislation)
"My disorder has been attended with several symptoms of a consumption; and I have been at times apprehensive that my great change was at hand: yet blessed be God, I have never been affrighted; but, on the contrary, at times much delighted with a view of its approach."
- David Brainerd
(Related: Change, God, Disorder)
"A few of the sublimest geniuses of Rome and Athens had some faint discoveries of the spiritual nature of the human soul, and formed some probable conjectures, that man was designed for a future state of existence."
- David Brainerd
(Related: Nature, Soul, Athens, Existence, Future, Man, Rome, Spiritual, State)
"Incomprehensible jargon is the hallmark of a profession."
- Kingman Brewster, Jr.
(Related: Jargon, Profession)
"I certainly wanted to write a book that was honest about New Orleans without explaining it to death, so much so that the first draft contained references absolutely incomprehensible to anyone who hasn't lived here for several years."
- Poppy Z. Brite
(Related: Death, Draft, First, Years)
"This death cult has no reason and is beyond negotiation. This is what makes it so frightening. This is what causes so many to engage in a sort of mental diversion. They don't want to confront this horror. So they rush off in search of more comprehensible things to hate."
- David Brooks
(Related: Death, Causes, Hate, Horror, Negotiation, Reason, Want)
"If my training goes well and according to plan I feel that I am capable of a top 8 finish in Athens. It will be a very difficult and technical course which will be to my advantage."
- Jonathan Brown
(Related: Athens, Training, Will)
"Somehow in the 20th Century an idea has developed that music is an activity or skill which is not comprehensible to the man in the street. This is an arrogant assertion and not necessarily a true one."
- Gavin Bryars
(Related: Music, Idea, Man, Skill)
"But if Russia is to be part of this larger zone of peace it cannot bring into it its imperial baggage. It cannot bring into it a policy of genocide against the Chechens, and cannot kill journalists, and it cannot repress the mass media."
- Zbigniew Brzezinski
(Related: Peace, Policy, Genocide, Media, Russia, Zone)
"The world is not comprehensible, but it is embraceable: through the embracing of one of its beings."
- Martin Buber
(Related: World)
"If enough people openly engage in conduct once considered reprehensible, we rewrite the rule book and assume that God, as a good democrat, will go along."
- James L. Buckley
(Related: God, People, Will)
"Some of my instincts are reprehensible."
- William F. Buckley, Jr.
"He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper."
- Edmund Burke
(Related: Nerves, Skill)
"He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper."
- Edmund Burke
(Related: Nerves, Skill)
"It is critical that we have a comprehensive energy plan to provide affordable and reliable supplies of energy so that our economy will not be dependent on foreign sources of energy."
- Richard Burr
(Related: Economy, Energy, Will)
"Teaching man his relatively small sphere in the creation, it also encourages him by its lessons of the unity of Nature and shows him that his power of comprehension allies him with the great intelligence over-reaching all."
- Annie Jump Cannon
(Related: Intelligence, Nature, Power, Creation, Man, Teaching, Unity)
"I cannot but be grieved to go from my native land, and especially from that part of it for whom and with whom I desired only to live; yet the dreadful apprehensions I have of what is coming upon this land may help to make me submissive to this providence, though more bitter."
- Donald Cargill
(Related: Help, Land, May, Providence)
"My sisters and I were fortunate to travel through Asia and Europe at very young ages. We confronted extraordinary beauty in Athens and unspeakable poverty in India."
- Mary Chapin Carpenter
(Related: Beauty, Travel, Athens, Europe, Poverty, Sisters)
"Reform of the medical liability system should be considered as part of a comprehensive response to surging medical malpractice premiums that endanger Americans' access to quality medical care."
- Lincoln Chafee
(Related: Medical, Quality, Americans, Care, Reform)
"We need to help students and parents cherish and preserve the ethnic and cultural diversity that nourishes and strengthens this community - and this nation."
- Cesar Chavez
(Related: Community, Diversity, Help, Nation, Parents, Students)
"All of life and human relations have become so incomprehensibly complex that, when you think about it, it becomes terrifying and your heart stands still."
- Anton Chekhov
(Related: Life, Heart)
"The founding fathers were not only brilliant, they were system builders and systematic thinkers. They came up with comprehensive plans and visions."
- Ron Chernow
(Related: Fathers, Founding, Visions)
"For far too long, America has been without a comprehensive energy plan, and today consumers are paying the price - literally - at the pump and in their heating bills."
- Chris Chocola
(Related: America, Energy, Today)
"Democrats believe we must have comprehensive health care reform that includes giving the federal government authority to negotiate lower prices with drug companies."
- Jim Clyburn
(Related: Government, Health, Authority, Care, Democrats, Giving, Reform)
"If you can help other people understand those truths - and in my mind, the only way I know to do that is with large scale, multi-year research projects, where you start with a question and then very rigorously and comprehensively answer that question."
- James Collins
(Related: People, Help, Mind, Projects, Question, Research)
"Reconciliation cannot be used to pass comprehensive health care reform. It won't work because it was never designed for that kind of significant legislation; it was designed for deficit reduction."
- Kent Conrad
(Related: Health, Work, Care, Legislation, Reform)
"Should we attempt border security first, which I believe we should, we still need to face the fact that comprehensive reform is necessary. This must include a guest worker program and dealing with the 11 million people who are here today that are contributing to our economy."
- Jim Costa
(Related: People, Economy, Fact, First, Guest, Reform, Security, Today)
"We want a vernacular in art. No mere verbal or formal agreement, or dead level of uniformity but that comprehensive and harmonizing unity with individual variety which can be developed among people politically and socially free."
- Walter Crane
(Related: Art, People, Agreement, Unity, Variety, Want)
"Indubitably, magic is one of the subtlest and most difficult of the sciences and arts. There is more opportunity for errors of comprehension, judgment and practice than in any other branch of physics."
- Aleister Crowley
(Related: Opportunity, Errors, Judgment, Magic, Physics, Practice)
"As in Athens, the right to participate was restricted to men, just as it was also in all later democracies and republics until the twentieth century."
- Robert A. Dahl
(Related: Men, Athens, Right)
"Cast away care, he that loves sorrow Lengthens not a day, nor can buy tomorrow; Money is trash, and he that will spend it, Let him drink merrily, fortune will send it."
- Thomas Dekker
(Related: Money, Care, Day, Fortune, Sorrow, Tomorrow, Will)
"The Bush administration and Congressional Republicans have failed to bring up comprehensive energy reform or any piece of legislation for that matter that would lower gas prices, opting instead to give massive subsidies to the oil and gas industry."
- Rosa DeLauro
(Related: Energy, Legislation, Oil, Reform, Republicans)
"We need comprehensive reform that will make America the best place in the world to invest and do business."
- Jim DeMint
(Related: Business, America, Reform, Will, World)
"A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art."
- Benjamin Disraeli
(Related: Art, Faith, Quality, Idea, Athens, Conquest, Man, Memory, Rome, World)
"There are two problems in my life. The political ones are insoluble and the economic ones are incomprehensible."
- Alec Douglas-Home
(Related: Life, Problems)
"I was apprehensive. I feared every time I talked about poetry, it would be filtered through the lens of race, sex, and age."
- Rita Dove
(Related: Age, Time, Poetry, Sex, Race)
"Travel, instead of broadening the mind, often merely lengthens the conversation."
- Elizabeth Drew
(Related: Travel, Conversation, Mind)
"Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversation."
- Elizabeth Drew
(Related: Travel, Conversation, Mind)
"Human life is beyond comprehension."
- Friedrich Durrenmatt
(Related: Life)
"The consequence of a world full of nuclear powers to me is so incomprehensible in terms of the dangers that that implies."
- Lawrence Eagleburger
(Related: World)
"I think the biggest challenge for Somalia has been the sense that it is a hopeless case of incomprehensible internal conflicts and there is nothing we can do."
- Jan Egeland
(Related: Challenge, Nothing, Sense)
"Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone."
- Albert Einstein
(Related: Science, Ideas, Language, May)
"That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God."
- Albert Einstein
(Related: God, Power, Idea, Conviction, Deep, Universe)
"One may say the eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility."
- Albert Einstein
(Related: May, Mystery, World)
"The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible."
- Albert Einstein
(Related: World)
"There could be no fairer destiny for any physical theory than that it should point the way to a more comprehensive theory in which it lives on as a limiting case."
- Albert Einstein
(Related: Destiny, Theory)
"If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying as to make the thought of global war include almost a sentence for suicide, you would think that man's intelligence and his comprehension... would include also his ability to find a peaceful solution."
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
(Related: Intelligence, Men, War, Thought, Ability, Man, Solution, Suicide, Weapons)
"Well, I think we still have to verify whatever declaration we will get and make sure that it is comprehensive and accurate. So, that would take care of the past activities."
- Mohamed ElBaradei
(Related: Care, Past, Will)
"Grief has limits, whereas apprehension has none. For we grieve only for what we know has happened, but we fear all that possibly may happen."
- Pliny the Elder
(Related: Fear, Grief, Limits, May)
"All human language draws its nature and value from the fact that it both comes from the Word of God and is chosen by God to manifest himself. But this relationship is secret and incomprehensible, beyond the bounds of reason and analysis."
- Jacques Ellul
(Related: Nature, God, Fact, Language, Reason, Value, Word)
"Senator Kerry voted to undermine the troops in the field, and that is not only inexcusable, it is reprehensible."
- John Ensign
(Related: Troops)
"It was appointed by law in Athens, that the obsequies of the citizens who fell in battle should be performed at the public expense, and in the most honorable manner."
- Edward Everett
(Related: Athens, Battle, Law, Public)
"He played the King as though under momentary apprehension that someone else was about to play the ace."
- Eugene Field
(Related: Play)
"Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it."
- Thomas Fuller
(Related: Love, Absence)
"In cities like Athens, poor houses lined narrow and tortuous streets in spite of luxurious public buildings."
- Stephen Gardiner
(Related: Athens, Cities, Houses, Poor, Public)
"There are heads of royal families who control hereditary fortunes that defy comprehension."
- Paul Getty
(Related: Control)
"I hadn't accepted he was seriously ill. The idea that someone so close to you couldn't wake up was utterly incomprehensible. Then the doctor came in... Maurice had no brain left. There wasn't any activity at all."
- Robin Gibb
(Related: Idea)
"We must have a relentless commitment to producing a meaningful, comprehensive energy package aimed at conservation, alleviating the burden of energy prices on consumers, decreasing our country's dependency on foreign oil, and increasing electricity grid reliability."
- Paul Gillmor
(Related: Burden, Commitment, Conservation, Country, Electricity, Energy, Oil)
"How great are the dangers I face to win a good name in Athens."
- Alexander the Great
(Related: Athens, Name)
"Autobiography is now as common as adultery and hardly less reprehensible."
- John Grigg
(Related: Adultery, Autobiography, Now)
"The majority of surveys throughout this Nation show that the American people are advocating for a comprehensive and realistic approach to immigration reform."
- Raul Grijalva
(Related: People, American, Majority, Nation, Reform)
"I love food and I love everything involved with food. I love the fun of it. I love restaurants. I love cooking, although I don't cook very much. I love kitchens."
- Alma Guillermoprieto
(Related: Food, Love, Cooking, Fun, Restaurants)
"I cannot imagine a context that would some day, in some manner, make the monstrous crime of September 11 an understandable or comprehensible political act."
- Jurgen Habermas
(Related: Act, Crime, Day)
"Fortunately, it's still not too late to develop a comprehensive global strategy to eliminate our real enemy."
- David Hackworth
(Related: Strategy, Enemy)
"Foreign policy will require a strategic agility that, whenever possible, gets ahead of problems, strengthens U.S. security and alliances, and promotes American interests and credibility."
- Chuck Hagel
(Related: Policy, American, Credibility, Foreign policy, Problems, Security, Will)
"When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again."
- Edith Hamilton
(Related: Athens, Freedom, Responsibility)
"U.S. officials and outside experts agree that China is undertaking a comprehensive modernization of its military. The Chinese military has gotten smaller but smarter."
- Lee H. Hamilton
(Related: Experts, Military)
"A nickname is the heaviest stone that the devil can throw at a man. It is a bugbear to the imagination, and, though we do not believe in it, it still haunts our apprehensions."
- William Hazlitt
(Related: Imagination, Devil, Man)
"A proof of really great art is that it is generally true - it seldom falls into the misapprehensions to which minor art is liable."
- Lafcadio Hearn
(Related: Art, Proof)
"In short, it may be said that on paper the obligations to settle international disputes peacefully are now so comprehensive and far-reaching that it is almost impossible for a state to resort to war without violating one or more solemn treaty obligations."
- Arthur Henderson
(Related: War, May, Now, State)
"Here is bread, which strengthens man's heart, and therefore is called the staff of Life."
- Matthew Henry
(Related: Life, Heart, Man)
"It is hard to understand addiction unless you have experienced it."
- Ken Hensley
(Related: Addiction)
"When we were making vinyl records we had a lot of time limitations for each record so songs were left off for a number of reasons. Now, with CDs, much more music can be included."
- Ken Hensley
(Related: Music, Time, Limitations, Now, Songs)
"When I left HEEP I didn't know what I wanted! It took me a long time to adjust to life away from the band and the only thing I knew was that I didn't want to repeat my mistakes!"
- Ken Hensley
(Related: Life, Time, Want)
"Visible Faith is an expression of my Christian faith which must be visible to be real! I gave the name to the collection of musicians who worked with me on the record."
- Ken Hensley
(Related: Faith, Christian, Expression, Musicians, Name)
"The past has infinite value if one learns from it."
- Ken Hensley
(Related: Infinite, Past, Value)
"THE GODS was my first professional band and I learned a lot during that time. It was very cool playing with so many great musicians as it helped me to learn."
- Ken Hensley
(Related: Time, Gods, First, Musicians)
"The band projects just took natural priority. I didn't really have a solo career, just wanted to share the music in another way and to learn more about writing, recording, etcetera."
- Ken Hensley
(Related: Music, Career, Projects, Writing)
"People often forget this - a vinyl album could only contain a maximum of 20 minutes per side!"
- Ken Hensley
(Related: People, Forget)
"It was both exciting and frustrating to work with an orchestral group."
- Ken Hensley
(Related: Work)
"I actually never knew Peter Green but I do respect his early work very much."
- Ken Hensley
(Related: Work, Respect)
"If you want to capitulate to what commercial needs are, you can always be commercially valuable, but I'm not interested in being that."
- Ken Hensley
(Related: Being, Needs, Want)
"I lived in an area where there were a lot of rock musicians, and we got together regularly in our studios."
- Ken Hensley
(Related: Musicians)
"I know why I am here and my only real focused goal is to live each day to the fullest and to try and honor God and be an encouragement to others. What the future holds is firmly in God's hands, and I am very happy about that!"
- Ken Hensley
(Related: God, Goal, Day, Encouragement, Future, Honor)
"I have never learned to read or write music so I am not a virtuoso musician like the others you mentioned. I am completely unable to play like them because I never learned classical music, I just developed my own crazy style!"
- Ken Hensley
(Related: Music, Play)
"I didn't know that you were supposed to tune the guitar to an open chord, and I learned to play slide with a normal tuning. I think it's a little more melodic that way and doesn't sound so bluesy. Of course, if I could play like David Lindley or Ry Cooder, I'd be a happy man!"
- Ken Hensley
(Related: Guitar, Open, Play, Sound)
"I am, first of all, a Christian and, secondly, a person with very very serious personal opinion, so I'm motivated by many many things and, certainly, not by the need or desire to satisfy other people's ideas of who I am."
- Ken Hensley
(Related: People, Ideas, Christian, Desire, First, Opinion)
"I always write lyrics first and the rhythm and the melody come from the lyrics. It always comes from the lyrics: words have rhythm and words have melody."
- Ken Hensley
(Related: First, Words)
"It is always encouraging and kind when people say nice things about my work but I know that it is not me that did it then and it is not me that is doing it now. It is God living in me and for that I will always be grateful."
- Ken Hensley
(Related: Work, God, People, Encouraging, Living, Now, Will)
"All of us would like for everybody to be the kind of person we want them to be."
- Ken Hensley
(Related: Want)
"My Mom is a ballet director, so I had this idea in me that classical training is the best foundation for anything you do, so I wanted to get a classical background and voice."
- Shuler Hensley
(Related: Mom, Idea, Ballet, Training, Voice)
"The most important thing about my profession is finding the truth, finding the reality of these shows."
- Shuler Hensley
(Related: Truth, Profession, Reality)
"I'm really an actor first. I'd love to do more straight plays."
- Shuler Hensley
(Related: Love, Actor, First)
"I love film and TV, the medium of them, just because it's such a smaller screen. It's much more precise. Ideally, I'd like to do maybe a film a year of some sort and use that to work more in the theatre because theatre really is my first love."
- Shuler Hensley
(Related: Love, Work, Film, First, First love, Theatre)
"I knew from a young age that I could sing and it was impressed upon me that if I got a classically trained education in voice, it would serve as a foundation for whatever I chose to do."
- Shuler Hensley
(Related: Age, Education, Voice)
"I'm a character actor at heart."
- Shuler Hensley
(Related: Heart, Character, Actor)
"When I was young, my ambition was to be one of the people who made a difference in this world. My hope is to leave the world a little better for having been there."
- Jim Henson
(Related: People, Hope, Ambition, Difference, World)
"My hope still is to leave the world a bit better than when I got here."
- Jim Henson
(Related: Hope, World)
"You're assisting the audience to understand; you're giving them a bridge or an access. And if you don't give them that, if you keep it more abstract, it's almost more pure. It's a cooler thing."
- Jim Henson
(Related: Giving)
"No, there's not much competition between puppeteers in general because everybody's working their own style."
- Jim Henson
(Related: Competition, Style)
"Somebody like a Piggy or a Kermit, there needs to be several versions and so there will be several of them."
- Jim Henson
(Related: Needs, Will)
"The most sophisticated people I know - inside they are all children."
- Jim Henson
(Related: People, Children)
"There was a little afternoon show that was called Afternoon. Back in those days in television, most local stations had a midday show for housewives that had a series of things. It was like a variety show for midday."
- Jim Henson
(Related: Television, Variety)
"We thought it would be fun to try to design a show that would work well internationally and so that' s what we're intending to do with Fraggle Rock, and we are indeed now selling it around the world."
- Jim Henson
(Related: Design, Work, Thought, Selling, Fun, Now, World)
"Yeah, we pretty much had a form and a shape by that time - a style - and I think one of the advantages of not having any relationship to any other puppeteer was that it gave me a reason to put those together myself for the needs of television."
- Jim Henson
(Related: Time, Needs, Pretty, Reason, Style, Television)
"When I was a kid, I never saw a puppet show. I never played with puppets or had any interest in them."
- Jim Henson
(Related: Interest)
"When The Muppet Show ended, we all sat around and said, what kind of television show would we like to do. We felt the need these days are for some quality children's programming."
- Jim Henson
(Related: Quality, Children, Programming, Television)
"Yeah, I did some small parts in high school and the first year of college and then fairly soon thereafter I settled into the backstage scenery, and then at the University of Maryland I was doing posters for their productions."
- Jim Henson
(Related: College, First, School, University)
"Yeah, I think we did the term Muppets before we got the show Sam and Friends - a few months after I started working."
- Jim Henson
(Related: Friends, Months)
"Yeah, well when I first started working, it was $5 a show; it was probably a little higher by the time I got to my own show, but I remember that they put me under contract at $100 a week, which to me was really an astronomical price."
- Jim Henson
(Related: Time, First)
"Life's like a movie, write your own ending. Keep believing, keep pretending."
- Jim Henson
(Related: Life, Ending)
"Well, Detroit Institute is kind of a key - probably the largest permanent collection of puppets in the US."
- Jim Henson
(Related: Key)
"At the University of Maryland, my first year I started off planning to major in art because I was interested in theatre design, stage design or television design."
- Jim Henson
(Related: Art, Design, First, Planning, Television, Theatre, University)
"NBC was trying to convert all of their local programming to color right away to encourage the sale of the sets, so I barely remember working in black and white, although I do know that I did do it, but there was not a major difference, though."
- Jim Henson
(Related: Difference, Programming, Right, Trying)
"It's into the same bag as E.T. and Yoda, wherein you're trying to create something that people will actually believe, but it's not so much a symbol of the thing, but you're trying to do the thing itself."
- Jim Henson
(Related: People, Symbol, Trying, Will)
"Actually the copies of characters is something I don't particularly like to talk about in articles but just for your information, most characters there's only one."
- Jim Henson
(Related: Information, Talk)
"At the time of Polaroid - and I did a couple of other commercials just before I stopped doing that stuff - at that point I was at the level where they respect you and your opinion and all that sort of thing."
- Jim Henson
(Related: Time, Opinion, Respect)
"But with The Dark Crystal, instead of puppetry we're trying to go toward a sense of realism - toward a reality of creatures that are actually alive and we're mixing up puppetry and all kinds of other techniques."
- Jim Henson
(Related: Realism, Reality, Sense, Trying)
"I decided that what I really wanted to do was go off and paint."
- Jim Henson
"If you're doing a large, complicated character with radio controls, it might take a number of people several months to make it and if you're talking about a quick little hand puppet, it could be made in 2 days, so there's enormous range there, and no real easy generalities."
- Jim Henson
(Related: People, Character, Months, Quick, Talking)
"And also there wasn't much money in television in those days anyhow."
- Jim Henson
(Related: Money, Television)
"It has always been difficult to get Big Bird to be very pretty. Big Bird in England is much more gorgeous."
- Jim Henson
(Related: England, Pretty)
"I do remember doing shows strictly in black and white, too, so you're right."
- Jim Henson
(Related: Right)
"If anything, there's a difference in working with color in England and the color in the US."
- Jim Henson
(Related: Difference, England)
"I've never felt any sense of competition with anybody, and we're all friends; we're all good friends."
- Jim Henson
(Related: Competition, Friends, Sense)
"I was very interested in theatre, mostly in stage design. I did a little bit of acting."
- Jim Henson
(Related: Design, Acting, Theatre)
"I think my own strengths are in television production."
- Jim Henson
(Related: Production, Television)
"Cult recruiting methods based on dosing victims with the brain chemicals released during capture bonding would make cults even more of a problem than they are now."
- Keith Henson
(Related: Now, Victims)
"I can't think of anyone who is up on evolutionary psychology and related areas who is deluded enough to be called a utopian."
- Keith Henson
(Related: Psychology)
"Genetic studies in Iceland have found that many of the women who were the founding stock of Iceland came from England and what is now France. Some were probably captured and carried off in Viking raids only 40 generations ago."
- Keith Henson
(Related: Women, EnglFounding, France, Generations, Now)
"Fighting hard to protect yourself and your relatives is good for your genes, but when captured and escape is not possible, giving up short of dying and making the best you can of the new situation is also good for your genes."
- Keith Henson
(Related: Dying, Fighting, Giving, Relatives)
"Evolution acts slowly. Our psychological characteristics today are those that promoted reproductive success in the ancestral environmen."
- Keith Henson
(Related: Success, Evolution, Today)
"Even small cults are a serious cost on the world economy, to victims, their families, employers, friends, and credit-card companies."
- Keith Henson
(Related: Credit, Economy, Friends, Victims, World)
"Cults, or related social movements such as the Taliban in Afghanistan, result in massive military expenses."
- Keith Henson
(Related: Afghanistan, Military, Result)
"Humans have evolved to be exquisitely sensitive to changes in status."
- Keith Henson
"Could people be trained to be less gullible? Or are you as stuck with gullibility as you are with skin colour?"
- Keith Henson
(Related: People, Skin)
"Children do not have to learn that streets are dangerous places by potentially fatal trial and error."
- Keith Henson
(Related: Children, Error)
"Brigham Young had 47 children, and over 50 women as wives."
- Keith Henson
(Related: Women, Children, Wives)
"Attention is the way social primates measure status. It is highly rewarding because it causes the release of brain chemicals such as dopamine and endorphins."
- Keith Henson
(Related: Attention, Causes, Measure)
"As for leadership, I am the kind who leads reluctantly and more by example than anything else. Someone had to be on the incorporation papers as president."
- Keith Henson
(Related: Leadership, Example, President)
"Anyone who has ever had the feeling of being higher than a kite after giving a public speech is well aware of the effects of attention."
- Keith Henson
(Related: Attention, Being, Feeling, Giving, Public, Speech)
"I much prefer the modern world."
- Keith Henson
(Related: World)
"Action leads to Attention. that in the short-term releases Rewarding brain chemicals and in the long term improves reproductive success."
- Keith Henson
(Related: Success, Action, Attention)
"Some people recovering from drugs or alcohol stay with the programs indefinitely, making the recovery program their family, a long-term source of attention rewards."
- Keith Henson
(Related: Family, People, Alcohol, Attention, Drugs)
"The rare person is still interested in new advances when they are adults. There is possibly a correlation with intelligence. In any case, you have to be fairly bright to keep learning and changing attitudes as you get older."
- Keith Henson
(Related: Intelligence, Learning)
"The information that is passed from person to person and from generation to generation is the primary factor that gives humans a competitive advantage over other animals."
- Keith Henson
(Related: Animals, Information)
"Successful cult memes induce intense social interaction behaviour between cult members. This trips the attention detectors."
- Keith Henson
(Related: Successful, Attention)
"Primates will continue to play social games without the least insight into what is killing them."
- Keith Henson
(Related: Games, Killing, Play, Will)
"People under the influence of cults is similar to that we observe in addicts. Typical behaviour for both includes draining bank accounts, neglecting children, destroying relations with family and losing interest in anything except the drug or cult."
- Keith Henson
(Related: Family, People, Children, Influence, Interest, Losing)
"People repeat behaviour that leads to flooding their brains with pleasurable chemicals. The short-term reward loop acts over hours to years, and the long-term reproductive success loop over generations."
- Keith Henson
(Related: Success, People, Generations, Reward, Years)
"I suspect that a substantial fraction of human problems in the world today, not just cults, result from the mismatch between the current environment and the environment in which we evolved."
- Keith Henson
(Related: Environment, Problems, Result, Today, World)
"Most of the suicide hijackers came from Saudi Arabia, a place not lacking in wealth. But due to rapid population growth, the wealth per capita has fallen by about half in a generation."
- Keith Henson
(Related: Growth, Wealth, Population, Suicide)
"Lie detection is like language; there is a learning window. Telling whoppers to small children seems to be a family tradition in many families."
- Keith Henson
(Related: Family, Lie, Children, Language, Learning, Tradition)
"The drug or cult has major if not exclusive sources of brain rewards."
- Keith Henson
"High status males had multiple wives or additional mating opportunities in the ancestral environment."
- Keith Henson
(Related: Environment, Wives)
"If anyone wonders why the airlines are not doing well it is because flying has been made such an unpleasant and degrading experience."
- Keith Henson
(Related: Experience, Flying, Wonders)
"People can undergo a sudden change of thinking and loyalties under threat of death or intense social pressure and isolation from friends and family."
- Keith Henson
(Related: Change, Death, Family, People, Friends, Isolation, Pressure, Thinking)
"I think I'm the first man to sit on top of the world."
- Matthew Henson
(Related: First, Man, World)
"It'll work, if God, wind, leads, ice, snow, and all the hells of this damned frozen land are willing."
- Matthew Henson
(Related: God, Work, Land, Snow, Wind)
"I was a tomboy right from the time I was a kid and loved to be like that. I'd hate all the girlie things. Well my best friends as a kid have been boys. I get along best with the opposite sex. I guess that's the case with most people though!"
- Natasha Henstridge
(Related: Time, Sex, People, Boys, Friends, Hate, Right)
"I think I have been very lucky as far as my acting career goes."
- Natasha Henstridge
(Related: Acting, Career)
"Where is this Hollywood scene, where is it? I'd like to find it one day... If I want to go out and have a good time, I go to New York."
- Natasha Henstridge
(Related: Time, Day, Hollywood, Want)
"When I started off, I didn't only ride to fame on my looks though many people I know think otherwise."
- Natasha Henstridge
(Related: People, Fame)
"Well, I have a couple of projects in the pipeline, but I'm taking things slow for now and being choosy about the roles I take up. One thing I can assure you of is that you are going to see a lot of me!"
- Natasha Henstridge
(Related: Being, Now, Projects)
"Today, I guess I give a lot more thought to the roles before I sign them."
- Natasha Henstridge
(Related: Thought, Today)
"The nude scenes were a little eerie and I felt a bit odd. Yeah, when the camera scanned up my body, I said to my friend, 'Now, that's a close-up.' I mean, you see every inch of my body. But I'm okay with it and so it was cool."
- Natasha Henstridge
(Related: Friend, Body)
"Even my parents are so cute, and they deal with every movie of mine excellently. They check with me ever so casually by asking 'Now how much of nudity are we going to see in this one?'"
- Natasha Henstridge
(Related: Cute, Nudity, Parents)
"I started off as a model and struggled for some time until I got a break as an actress. I was too stubborn to let go and was sure I was in the right place at the right time. I just fought and I think that's how I am where I am today."
- Natasha Henstridge
(Related: Time, Right, Today)
"My main aim has always been to do good quality films with roles that have some substance. With Power and Beauty there were loads of things that I liked about the movie, which made me opt for it."
- Natasha Henstridge
(Related: Beauty, Power, Quality)
"I never forget my old days and I never fly too high I have my feet fixed firmly on the ground!"
- Natasha Henstridge
(Related: Feet, Forget, Old)
"I guess Species was a movie made for me and hence I bagged the role. In fact even when acting, I never thought the outcome would be so good which I think it was! The entire role was a challenge. I was to be this strange yet sexy thing which was challenging!"
- Natasha Henstridge
(Related: Thought, Acting, Challenge, Fact)
"I believe that every role that I have done this far has had quality and content. My roles have been very demanding and every role has been a challenge and a learning experience that has helped me mature as an actress."
- Natasha Henstridge
(Related: Experience, Quality, Challenge, Content, Learning)
"I began as a model, but that did not really hold my interest for too long! I believe I stood out from the parade of models trying to make it in Hollywood, which helped launch my career beyond the one-night-stand horror movie."
- Natasha Henstridge
(Related: Career, Hollywood, Horror, Interest, Trying)
"We will never stop illegal immigration until this country has a comprehensive, realistic immigration policy."
- Ruben Hinojosa
(Related: Policy, Country, Will)
"They should hold themselves absolutely upon the immovable foundation of truth and nature, whereby alone they can save themselves from misapprehensions and from the danger of being entirely carried away from reality into mere dreams and fictions."
- Ethan A. Hitchcock
(Related: Dreams, Nature, Truth, Being, Danger, Reality)
"Nothing could make me forget what the Reagan years had actually been like."
- Christopher Hitchens
(Related: Forget, Nothing, Years)
"One of the many problems with the American left has been its image as something rather too solemn, mirthless, herbivorous, dull, monochrome, righteous, and boring."
- Christopher Hitchens
(Related: American, Problems)
"Ronald Reagan said that he sought a Star Wars defense only in order to share the technology with the tyrants of the U.S.S.R."
- Christopher Hitchens
(Related: Technology, Defense, Order)
"Ronald Reagan used to alarm his Soviet counterparts by saying that surely they'd both unite against an invasion from Mars."
- Christopher Hitchens
(Related: Saying)
"Ronald Reagan used to alarm other constituencies by speaking freely about the End Times foreshadowed in the Bible."
- Christopher Hitchens
(Related: Bible, End)
"Terrorism is the tactic of demanding the impossible, and demanding it at gunpoint."
- Christopher Hitchens
(Related: Terrorism)
"All propaganda has to be popular and has to accommodate itself to the comprehension of the least intelligent of those whom it seeks to reach."
- Adolf Hitler
(Related: Popular, Propaganda)
"For me as an American, the most painful aspect of this is that I believe that that administration has taken the events of 9/11 and has manipulated the grief of the country and I think that's reprehensible."
- Dustin Hoffman
(Related: American, Country, Events, Grief)
"It's quite ironic I suppose, it's that thing about being in a group when you all start out as friends and then invariably end up hating each other. So I just thought they needed telling really, in case they were labouring under the apprehension that they were still friends."
- Peter Hook
(Related: Thought, Being, End, Friends)
"Beauty is a relation, and the apprehension of it a comparison."
- Gerard Manley Hopkins
(Related: Beauty)
"Sometimes the only way to make palatable that which is appalling and apprehensive is to season it with some humor."
- Terrence Howard
(Related: Humor)
"History creates comprehensibility primarily by arranging facts meaningfully and only in a very limited sense by establishing strict causal connections."
- Johan Huizinga
(Related: History, Facts, Sense)
"The advantages found in history seem to be of three kinds, as it amuses the fancy, as it improves the understanding, and as it strengthens virtue."
- David Hume
(Related: History, Virtue, Fancy, Understanding)
"Under the auspices of peace, our comprehensive renaissance will be built, and it will be a model for those who wish to emulate it in the greater Arab homeland."
- King Hussein I
(Related: Peace, Will)
"It's clear that we need comprehensive immigration reform."
- Bob Inglis
(Related: Reform)
"Explanation separates us from astonishment, which is the only gateway to the incomprehensible."
- Eugene Ionesco
"I discovered that the study of past philosophers is of little use unless our own reality enters into it. Our reality alone allows the thinker's questions to become comprehensible."
- Karl Jaspers
(Related: Past, Questions, Reality, Study)
"Philosophy can only be approached with the most concrete comprehension."
- Karl Jaspers
(Related: Philosophy)
"Understanding does not cure evil, but it is a definite help, inasmuch as one can cope with a comprehensible darkness."
- Carl Jung
(Related: Cure, Darkness, Evil, Help, Understanding)
"Neither comprehension nor learning can take place in an atmosphere of anxiety."
- Rose Kennedy
(Related: Anxiety, Learning)
"Art must unquestionably have a social value; that is, as a potential means of communication it must be addressed, and in comprehensible terms, to the understanding of mankind."
- Rockwell Kent
(Related: Art, Communication, Mankind, Potential, Understanding, Value)
"Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent."
- John Maynard Keynes
"That's the way it is with poetry: When it is incomprehensible it seems profound, and when you understand it, it is only ridiculous."
- Galway Kinnell
"It was all completely incomprehensible to me. I was fearful of the language. You had to look up every third word."
- Kevin Kline
(Related: Language, Word)
"An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible."
- Alfred A. Knopf
(Related: Man, Obvious, states)
"Persons who have been homeless carry within them a certain philosophy of life which makes them apprehensive about ownership."
- Jerzy Kosinski
(Related: Life, Ownership, Philosophy)
"The news media's silence, particularly television news, is reprehensible. If we knew as much about Darfur as we do about Michael Jackson, we might be able to stop these things from continuing."
- Nicholas D. Kristof
(Related: Media, News, Silence, Television)
"Whatever people in general do not understand, they are always prepared to dislike; the incomprehensible is always the obnoxious."
- Letitia Landon
(Related: People)
"For the past several years, the Meth Caucus has worked to engage the Office of National Drug Control Policy on this issue. We have tried to get their attention that meth requires a strong, comprehensive Federal policy."
- Rick Larsen
(Related: Policy, Control, Attention, Office, Past, Years)
"An allegory is not meant to be taken literally. There is a great lack of comprehension on the part of some readers."
- Naguib Mahfouz
"If a person studies too much and exhausts his reflective powers, he will be confused, and will not be able to apprehend even that which had been within the power of his apprehension. For the powers of the body are all alike in this respect."
- Maimonides
(Related: Power, Body, Respect, Will)
"Wink and shut their apprehensions up."
- John Marston
"We need a new Latin American policy that is bold - different. We need to focus on building civil society, focus on the lack of infrastructure. We need look at ways to foster economic opportunity.There needs to be a more comprehensive economic vision in the region."
- Mel Martinez
(Related: Society, Policy, Opportunity, Vision, American, Building, Focus, Needs)
"I brought together experts from health care, business, academic institutions, and the community to develop a comprehensive blueprint for eliminating racial and ethnic disparities in health care in the City of Boston."
- Thomas Menino
(Related: Health, Business, Boston, Care, Community, Experts)
"In 1973, America imported 30 percent of its crude oil needs. Today, that number has doubled to more than 60 percent. Gas prices are as high as they are now in part because we've had no comprehensive national energy policy for the past few decades."
- Gary Miller
(Related: Policy, America, Energy, Needs, Now, Oil, Past, Today)
"Throughout the time in which I am working on a canvas I can feel how I am beginning to love it, with that love which is born of slow comprehension."
- Joan Miro
(Related: Love, Time, Beginning)
"Discipline strengthens the mind so that it becomes impervious to the corroding influence of fear."
- Bernard Law Montgomery
(Related: Fear, Discipline, Influence, Mind)
"I taught for 17 years in an inner city comprehensive schools."
- Estelle Morris
(Related: Schools, Years)
"We can build new housing while preserving the quality and character of adjacent residential districts and ensuring infill development strengthens the surrounding neighborhood."
- Gavin Newsom
(Related: Quality, Development, Character)
"A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding."
- Isaac Newton
(Related: Man, May, Understanding)
"In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad."
- Friedrich Nietzsche
(Related: Education, Cooking, Public, Reason, states, Will)
"I try to keep a balance between conceptional or intellectual comprehension and emotional understanding."
- Alva Noto
(Related: Balance, Understanding)
"Having refuted, then, as well as we could, every notion which might suggest that we were to think of God as in any degree corporeal, we go on to say that, according to strict truth, God is incomprehensible, and incapable of being measured."
- Origen
(Related: God, Truth, Being)
"As a father and grandfather, I have witnessed firsthand the joy of new life entering the world. I know the pain and apprehension that goes along with premature births and birth defects."
- Solomon Ortiz
(Related: Life, Father, Joy, Pain, World)
"I was apprehensive about bringing off this Homer."
- Peter O'Toole
"The Christian notion of the possibility of redemption is incomprehensible to the computer."
- Vance Packard
(Related: Possibility, Christian, Computer)
"We were now, as I before mentioned, upon this St. Joseph's trail. It was evident, by the traces, that large parties were a few days in advance of us; and as we too supposed them to be Mormons, we had some apprehension of interruption."
- Francis Parkman
(Related: Now)
"It is incomprehensible that God should exist, and it is incomprehensible that he should not exist."
- Blaise Pascal
(Related: God)
"It is certain, indeed, that the sacred writers were apt to make great allowances for people with empty stomachs, and though I am well aware that the present profane ones think this very reprehensible, I venture to agree with the sacred writers."
- James Payn
(Related: People, Present, Writers)
"My biggest fight has been between those who wanted to do something incremental and those who wanted to do something comprehensive. We won that fight, and once we kick through this door, there'll be more legislation to follow."
- Nancy Pelosi
(Related: Fight, Legislation)
"The omission of good is no less reprehensible than the commission of evil."
- Plutarch
(Related: Evil)
"I am not going to let Athens affect the rest of my life."
- Paula Radcliffe
(Related: Life, Athens, Rest)
"Life provides material for its agitation which makes its general views comprehensible to the masses."
- Karl Radek
(Related: Life, Agitation)
"Apprehension is natural, but it must not be concluded that it is a threat. Certainly not."
- Sellapan Ramanathan
"The purpose of the ADA was to provide clear and comprehensive national standards to eliminate discrimination against individuals with disabilities. As a result, individuals with disabilities are now able to live in their homes and have access to new careers."
- Jim Ramstad
(Related: Purpose, Careers, Discrimination, Now, Result)
"Progress is measured by richness and intensity of experience - by a wider and deeper apprehension of the significance and scope of human existence."
- Herbert Read
(Related: Experience, Progress, Existence, Richness)
"It's not just the effect of technology on the environment, on religion, on the economic structure, on society, on politics, etc. It's that everything now exists in technology to the point where technology is the new and comprehensive host of nature of life."
- Godfrey Reggio
(Related: Life, Nature, Technology, Politics, Religion, Society, Effect, Environment, Now)
"It is vitally important that we implement immigration reform. We need a bill that strengthens our borders and protects this nation, but that also makes it simpler for good people to become Americans."
- Dave Reichert
(Related: People, Americans, Nation, Reform)
"All history is incomprehensible without Christ."
- Ernest Renan
(Related: History, Christ)
"There is an increasingly pervasive sense not only of failure, but of futility. The legislative process has become a cruel shell game and the service system has become a bureaucratic maze, inefficient, incomprehensible, and inaccessible."
- Elliot Richardson
(Related: Failure, Sense, Service)
"There is another common misapprehension that the magnitude scale is itself some kind of instrument or apparatus. Visitors will frequently ask to 'see the scale.'"
- Charles Francis Richter
(Related: Will)
"You know, I think the, the crucial thing, you know, we have put in place what is, is just simply the biggest, boldest recovery package in history, right; the stimulus package, biggest ever; the financial rescue, absolutely comprehensive; a housing plan - that is incredible medicine for the economy. And we fully expect it to work."
- Christina Romer
(Related: Work, History, Financial, Economy, Medicine, Right)
"Republicans have offered dozens of comprehensive healthcare plans many of which achieve comprehensive healthcare reform without breaking what's working in healthcare. We want to fix what's broken in healthcare."
- Paul Ryan
(Related: Healthcare, Reform, Republicans, Want)
"Bin Laden does reprehensible activities, and we should surely take care of that by killing him as soon as we can. But he's not an irrational man. He's a very worthy enemy. He's an enemy to worry about."
- Michael Scheuer
(Related: Care, Enemy, Killing, Man, Worry)
"The surest method of being incomprehensible or, moreover, to be misunderstood is to use words in their original sense; especially words from the ancient languages."
- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
(Related: Being, Sense, Words)
"And, moreover, it is art in its most general and comprehensive form that is here discussed, for the dialogue embraces everything connected with it, from its greatest object, the state, to its least, the embellishment of sensuous existence."
- Friedrich Schleiermacher
(Related: Art, Existence, State)
"For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, and at the same time makes him hardly intelligible."
- Arthur Schopenhauer
(Related: Time, Effect, Fault)
"When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty; because apprehensions may arise, lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner."
- Charles de Secondat
(Related: Body, Laws, Liberty, May, Senate, United)
"Of course, experience strengthens one later."
- Anton Seidl
(Related: Experience)
"There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality."
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
(Related: Harm, Reality)
"What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god."
- William Shakespeare
(Related: Work, God, Action, Infinite, Man, Reason)
"Everywhere you look, there is a charity or a project in school to get involved in. In eighth grade, there was this program called CJSF, California Junior Scholarship Foundation. We were involved in soup kitchens and toy drives, and your school can set up something like that. If your school doesn't have a program like that, set one up."
- Lindsey Shaw
(Related: Charity, Project, School)
"It is hard enough to make a plan for how you are going to spend an evening with somebody else. So to make a plan for how you are going to behave in 25 years seems based on a view of life that is incomprehensible to me."
- Wallace Shawn
(Related: Life, Evening, Years)
"A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own."
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
(Related: Man)
"The best time to frame an answer to the letters of a friend, is the moment you receive them. Then the warmth of friendship, and the intelligence received, most forcibly cooperate."
- William Shenstone
(Related: Intelligence, Time, Friendship, Letters)
"His knowledge of books had in some degree diminished his knowledge of the world."
- William Shenstone
(Related: Knowledge, Books, World)
"Grandeur and beauty are so very opposite, that you often diminish the one as you increase the other. Variety is most akin to the latter, simplicity to the former."
- William Shenstone
(Related: Beauty, Simplicity, Variety)
"Hope is a flatterer, but the most upright of all parasites; for she frequents the poor man's hut, as well as the palace of his superior."
- William Shenstone
(Related: Hope, Man, Poor)
"Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it."
- William Shenstone
(Related: Fear, Envy, Jealousy)
"Laws are generally found to be nets of such a texture, as the little creep through, the great break through, and the middle-sized are alone entangled in it."
- William Shenstone
(Related: Laws)
"Second thoughts oftentimes are the very worst of all thoughts."
- William Shenstone
(Related: Thoughts)
"The eye must be easy, before it can be pleased."
- William Shenstone
(Related: Eye)
"The lines of poetry, the period of prose, and even the texts of Scripture most frequently recollected and quoted, are those which are felt to be preeminently musical."
- William Shenstone
(Related: Poetry, Prose, Scripture)
"Every single instance of a friend's insincerity increases our dependence on the efficacy of money."
- William Shenstone
(Related: Money, Friend, Dependence, Insincerity)
"Poetry and consumption are the most flattering of diseases."
- William Shenstone
(Related: Poetry)
"A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood."
- William Shenstone
(Related: Truth, Falsehood)
"Zealous men are ever displaying to you the strength of their belief, while judicious men are showing you the grounds of it."
- William Shenstone
(Related: Men, Belief, Strength)
"What leads to unhappiness, is making pleasure the chief aim."
- William Shenstone
(Related: Pleasure, Unhappiness)
"The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one."
- William Shenstone
(Related: Love, Time, Country)
"Every good poet includes a critic, but the reverse is not true."
- William Shenstone
"Anger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole world."
- William Shenstone
(Related: Anger, Power, Control, Force, World)
"A miser grows rich by seeming poor; an extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich."
- William Shenstone
(Related: Man, Miser, Poor)
"A man has generally the good or ill qualities, which he attributes to mankind."
- William Shenstone
(Related: Man, Mankind)
"The regard one shows economy, is like that we show an old aunt who is to leave us something at last."
- William Shenstone
(Related: Economy, Old)
"A fool and his words are soon parted."
- William Shenstone
(Related: Fool, Words)
"The world may be divided into people that read, people that write, people that think, and fox-hunters."
- William Shenstone
(Related: People, May, World)
"There is nothing more universally commended than a fine day; the reason is that people can commend it without envy."
- William Shenstone
(Related: People, Day, Envy, Nothing, Reason)
"Virtues, like essences, lose their fragrance when exposed."
- William Shenstone
"Passing into practical life, illustrations of this fact are found everywhere; the distant, or the unseen, steadies and strengthens us against the rapid whirl of things around us."
- Matthew Simpson
(Related: Life, Fact)
"Finally, the House is working to require a comprehensive federal review of IRS regulations with a follow-up report to Congress on possible actions to reduce the tax paperwork burden imposed on small businesses."
- Michael K. Simpson
(Related: Actions, Burden, Congress, Tax)
"We believe the currently one cannot speak of a revolutionary situation, just as there is no concrete possibilities of an immediate and comprehensive assumption of power by the people."
- Joe Slovo
(Related: Power, People, Possibilities)
"It is notoriously true that the public mind is seriously agitated with apprehensions of negroes insurrections and that it is becoming more and more so."
- Thomas L. Smith
(Related: Mind, Public)
"The mind begins to boggle at unnatural substances as things paradoxical and incomprehensible."
- Robert South
(Related: Mind)
"An Aristotle was but the rubbish of an Adam, and Athens but the rudiments of Paradise."
- Robert South
(Related: Athens, Paradise)
"Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility."
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
(Related: Conscience, Judgment, Nothing, Responsibility)
"All of nature begins to whisper its secrets to us through its sounds. Sounds that were previously incomprehensible to our soul now become the meaningful language of nature."
- Rudolf Steiner
(Related: Nature, Soul, Language, Now, Secrets, Whisper)
"All the genius I have lies in this; when I have a subject in hand, I study it profoundly."
- Alexander Hamilton Stephens
(Related: Genius, Lies, Study)
"You must be fit to give before you can be fit to receive."
- James Stephens
"Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will."
- James Stephens
(Related: Fear, Bravery, Curiosity, Will)
"A woman is a branchy tree and man a singing wind; and from her branches carelessly he takes what he can find."
- James Stephens
(Related: Man, Singing, Wind, Woman)
"Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself."
- James Stephens
(Related: Originality, Saying)
"Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera."
- James Stephens
(Related: Listening, Opera, Sleep)
"What the heart knows today the head will understand tomorrow."
- James Stephens
(Related: Heart, Today, Tomorrow, Will)
"Women and birds are able to see without turning their heads, and that is indeed a necessary provision for they are both surrounded by enemies."
- James Stephens
(Related: Women, Birds, Enemies)
"Men come of age at sixty, women at fifteen."
- James Stephens
(Related: Age, Men, Women)
"A sword, a spade, and a thought should never be allowed to rust."
- James Stephens
(Related: Thought)
"Finality is death. Perfection is finality. Nothing is perfect. There are lumps in it."
- James Stephens
(Related: Death, Nothing, Perfection)
"The principles upon which a safety lamp might be constructed I stated to several persons long before Sir Humphrey Davy came into this part of the country."
- George Stephenson
(Related: Country, Principles, Safety)
"I am glad to learn that the Parliament Bill has been passed for the Darlington Railway."
- George Stephenson
(Related: Parliament)
"I am much obliged by the favourable sentiments you express towards me, and shall be happy if I can be of service in carrying into execution your plans."
- George Stephenson
(Related: Execution, Service)
"The rage for railroads is so great that many will be laid in parts where they will not pay."
- George Stephenson
(Related: Will)
"Once a person has all the things they need to live, everything else is entertainment."
- Neal Stephenson
(Related: Entertainment)
"The difference between stupid and intelligent people - and this is true whether or not they are well-educated - is that intelligent people can handle subtlety."
- Neal Stephenson
(Related: People, Difference)
"The difference between ignorant and educated people is that the latter know more facts. But that has nothing to do with whether they are stupid or intelligent."
- Neal Stephenson
(Related: People, Difference, Facts, Nothing)
"One of the most frightening things about your true nerd, for may people, is not that he's socially inept - because everybody's been there - but rather his complete lack of embarrassment about it."
- Neal Stephenson
(Related: People, Embarrassment, May)
"Most countries are static, and they need to do is keep having babies. But America's like this big old clanking smoking machine that just lumbers across the landscape scooping up and eating everything in sight."
- Neal Stephenson
(Related: America, Babies, Countries, Eating, Machine, Old, Sight, Smoking)
"It is the fate of operating systems to become free."
- Neal Stephenson
(Related: Fate)
"Talent was not rare; the ability to survive having it was."
- Neal Stephenson
(Related: Talent, Ability)
"So many people suffer from abuse, and suffer alone."
- Pamela Stephenson
(Related: People, Abuse)
"Being a psychologist did enable me to maintain objectivity."
- Pamela Stephenson
(Related: Being)
"I don't like the term mid-life crisis."
- Pamela Stephenson
(Related: Crisis)
"I don't think I'm generous enough to be the straight guy. I sort of make my own way and make my own statement. Do I mind pushing myself forward? Not at all."
- Pamela Stephenson
(Related: Mind)
"I grew up in the suburbs of Sydney, an arid kind of place, but every day I took the ferry across the harbour to get to school. I'd watch the ships coming in and going out."
- Pamela Stephenson
(Related: Day, School, Ships)
"I loved my life, but my choices were overloading and overwhelming me. Listening to inner feelings and fulfilling some of these urges when they come along is incredibly important."
- Pamela Stephenson
(Related: Life, Feelings, Choices, Listening)
"I've really written my books for my husband and our family. They've brought us closer together by allowing us to discuss things that were unspoken for so long."
- Pamela Stephenson
(Related: Family, HusbBooks)
"It is one thing to go on stage and be funny or be in a good place in your career, but for a woman, actually facing the elements in a physical way is a very powerful thing."
- Pamela Stephenson
(Related: Funny, Career, Woman)
"Love is an obsession. It has that quality to it. But there are healthy obsessions, and mine is one of them."
- Pamela Stephenson
(Related: Love, Quality, Obsession, Obsessions)
"Most people who went about saying a ghost had poked them with a brolly would be locked up somewhere."
- Pamela Stephenson
(Related: People, Saying)
"Sexual dreams aren't usually about sex."
- Pamela Stephenson
(Related: Dreams, Sex)
"After all my probing into the human brain, I should still be aware of mysteries and come up with them myself."
- Pamela Stephenson
"Suffering from dysentery at sea was no picnic."
- Pamela Stephenson
(Related: Sea, Suffering)
"The notion of a contemporary epiphany to me is very exciting, because it's a sort of biblical thing. It's something that has happened to people in other centuries or in the context of religious experience."
- Pamela Stephenson
(Related: Experience, People, Religious)
"The work of a psychotherapist involves being empathic and insightful with one's patients without getting too lost in their painful stories to be helpful."
- Pamela Stephenson
(Related: Work, Being)
"There is a probably natural and learned reticence with myself talking about my early life."
- Pamela Stephenson
(Related: Life, Talking)
"There may be a point where I may decide to write an autobiography."
- Pamela Stephenson
(Related: Autobiography, May)
"There seems to be this impression that if I really am a psychotherapist, I can't be serious about it. They think there must be something fishy going on."
- Pamela Stephenson
(Related: Impression)
"There was a special challenge in describing the awful childhood of a person who happens to be my own husband. It was very painful at times, for both of us."
- Pamela Stephenson
(Related: HusbChallenge, Childhood)
"There's been a number of erroneous biographies, articles and so on written about Billy and we both thought it would be a good idea to produce a true one."
- Pamela Stephenson
(Related: Thought, Idea)
"We have a couple of dogs, but I wouldn't describe myself as an animal person."
- Pamela Stephenson
(Related: Dogs)
"When I came off the boat I was very proud of the thick calluses which had developed on my feet. But now, I am struggling to get into my favourite high heels which is a shame, as I have so many."
- Pamela Stephenson
(Related: Feet, Now, Shame)
"Perfect objectivity is always impossible, no matter who writes a person's biography."
- Pamela Stephenson
(Related: Biography)
"We were trained to live by our wits, in any circumstance."
- William Stephenson
(Related: Circumstance)
"This is the wonderful thing about espionage, nothing exists any more."
- William Stephenson
(Related: Nothing)
"When we first started, we were a band from Athens and that was so off the map."
- Michael Stipe
(Related: Athens, First)
"So, we went from being an Athens band to being a Georgia band to being a Southern band to being an American band from the East Coast to being an American band and now we're kind of an international phenomenon."
- Michael Stipe
(Related: American, Athens, Being, Now)
"So, we just kind of created our own thing and that's part of the beauty of Athens: is that it's so off the map and there's no way you could ever be the East Village or an L.A. scene or a San Francisco scene, that it just became its own thing."
- Michael Stipe
(Related: Beauty)
"One of the greatest objections which families have to New South Wales, is their apprehension of the moral effects that are likely to overwhelm them by bad example, and for which no success in life could compensate."
- Charles Sturt
(Related: Life, Success, Example)
"We first fought the heathens in the name of religion, then Communism, and now in the name of drugs and terrorism. Our excuses for global domination always change."
- Serj Tankian
(Related: Change, Religion, Communism, Drugs, Excuses, First, Name, Now, Terrorism)
"Like blind hens, we are ignorant of our own self and the depths within us."
- Johannes Tauler
(Related: Blind, Hens, Self)
"What has Athens to do with Jerusalem?"
- Tertullian
(Related: Athens)
"Justice will not come to Athens until those who are not injured are as indignant as those who are injured."
- Thucydides
(Related: Athens, Justice, Will)
"To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it."
- Leo Tolstoy
(Related: Art, Food, Work, Men, People, Majority, Saying)
"The principles and policy of these Presidents were marked by the most enlarged and comprehensive statesmanship, promoting the highest interests of the Republic."
- Robert Toombs
(Related: Policy, Principles, Statesmanship)
"Athens will again be the host of the Games in 2004, but there are rumors that they might be switched if the Greeks don't begin to construct the sites faster."
- Bill Toomey
(Related: Athens, Games, Rumors, Will)
"The Olympic Games of the Modern Era began in 1896 in the city of Athens."
- Bill Toomey
(Related: Athens, Games)
"However much you knock at nature's door, she will never answer you in comprehensible words."
- Ivan Turgenev
(Related: Nature, Will, Words)
"Art is a private thing, the artist makes it for himself; a comprehensible work is the product of a journalist. We need works that are strong, straight, precise, and forever beyond understanding."
- Kenneth Tynan
(Related: Art, Work, Artist, Understanding)
"It is deeply shocking and incomprehensible to me that despite volumes of documentation and living witnesses who can attest to the horrors of the Holocaust, there are still those who would deny it."
- Mark Udall
(Related: Living)
"The feminist movement has helped open minds and kitchens to the notion that men can be at home on the range."
- Rene Veaux
(Related: Home, Men, Open)
"For a man to strike any women is most brutal, and I, as well as everyone else, think this far worse than any attempt to shoot, which, wicked as it is, is at least more comprehensible and more courageous."
- Queen Victoria
(Related: Women, Man)
"Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence."
- Leonardo da Vinci
(Related: Authority, Nothing, Silence)
"This is Port of Spain to me, a city ideal in its commercial and human proportions, where a citizen is a walker and not a pedestrian, and this is how Athens may have been before it became a cultural echo."
- Derek Walcott
(Related: Athens, Echo, May, Spain)
"In my solitude I have pondered much on the incomprehensible subjects of space, eternity, life and death."
- Alfred Russel Wallace
(Related: Death, Life, Eternity, Solitude, Space)
"The utter incompetence of the U.N. is literally incomprehensible."
- Malcolm Wallop
(Related: Incompetence)
"No matter how complicated a problem is, it usually can be reduced to a simple, comprehensible form which is often the best solution."
- An Wang
(Related: Solution)
"Let your Discourse with Men of Business be Short and Comprehensive."
- George Washington
(Related: Business, Men)
"We are going to put out a boxed set thing, but I don't want to do it yet. I want to wait until we're 45 and we're bitter and broke. Then, we'll put out the comprehensive Ween boxed set."
- Gene Ween
(Related: Want)
"The more the universe seems comprehensible, the more it also seems pointless."
- Steven Weinberg
(Related: Universe)
"Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language."
- Alfred North Whitehead
(Related: Life, Language)
"A comprehensive national energy policy is critical to our nation's economy and our national security. Energy expenditures account for about 7% percent of our total economy and influence pricing in the much of the rest of the economy."
- Heather Wilson
(Related: Policy, Economy, Energy, Influence, Nation, National security, Rest)
"The function of Theology? The recitation of the incomprehensible by the unspeakable to pick the pockets of the unthinking."
- Robert Anton Wilson
(Related: Theology)
"I was a great fan of Jim Henson."
- Terri Windling
"I live alone, with cats, books, pictures, fresh vegetables to cook, the garden, the hens to feed."
- Jeanette Winterson
(Related: Books, Cats, Garden, Hens)
"A tree is an incomprehensible mystery."
- Jim Woodring
(Related: Mystery)
"For an event that was wholly created in the poisonous psychological warfare kitchens of the Second World War, run by the ministries of propaganda in many countries, not just by the British or the Americans, but also the Russians and undoubtedly the world Jewish organizations."
- Ernst Zundel
(Related: War, Americans, Countries, Propaganda, World, World war)