Read books online
at our other site:
The Literature Page
|
Quotation Search
To search for quotations, enter a phrase to search for in the quotation, a whole or partial
author name, or both. Also specify the collections to search in below. See the
Search Instructions for details.
- Insanity is just what we call stupidity when it doesn't make sense.
- Josh Lieb, I am a Genius of Unspeakable Evil and I Want to be Your Class President, 2009
- Her madness hath the oddest frame of sense, such a dependency of thing on thing, as e'er I heard in madness.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Measure for Measure, Act V, sc. 1
- O sleep, thou ape of death, lie dull upon her and be her sense but as a monument, thus in a chapel lying.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Cymbeline, Act II, sc. 2
- O sleep, O gentle sleep, nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, that thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down, and steep my senses in forgetfulness.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Henry IV, Part II, Act III, sc. 1
- In a political sense, there is one problem that currently underlies all of the others. That problem is making Government sufficiently responsive to the people. If we dont make government responsive to the people, we dont make it believable. And we must make government believable if we are to have a functioning democracy.
- Gerald R. Ford (1913 - 2006), Address at Jacksonville University, December 16, 1971
- There is an important sense in which government is distinctive from administration. One is perpetual, the other is temporary and changeable. A man may be loyal to his government and yet oppose the particular principles and methods of administration.
- Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865), Congressional Record, April 15, 1942
- The only sense that is common in the long run, is the sense of change-and we all instinctively avoid it.
- E. B. White (1899 - 1985)
- Hunting has opened the earth to me and let me sense the rhythms and hierarchies of nature.
- Charles Fergus
- Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls this adventure Science.
- Edward Powell Hubble, The Nature of Science, 1954
- Academic and aristocratic people live in such an uncommon atmosphere that common sense can rarely reach them.
- Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902)
Can't find what you're looking for? Try browsing our list of quotations by subject..
|