Edwin Percy Whipple Quotes
The contemplation of beauty in nature, in art, in literature, in human character, diffuses through our being a soothing and subtle joy, by which the heart's anxious and aching cares are softly smiled away.
Edwin Percy Whipple
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The sort of poetry I seek resides in objects man can't touch.
E. M. Forster
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
W. H. Murray
I think we respond well when we do something well.
Katey Sagal
A key reason that elections are run so badly is that in most states, political partisans are in charge.
Adam Cohen
The relationship between violence and nonviolence in this country is interesting. The fact of the matter is, you know, people do respond to riots. The 1968 Housing Act was in large response to riots that broke out after Dr. Martin Luther King was killed. They cited these as an actual inspiration.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
During my early years, I was mercurially lively, always in motion, spilling over with pranks, impertinent and precocious, and, at the same time, intractably stubborn and angry if anything went against my will.
Edith Stein
Given a fair wind, we will negotiate our way into the Common Market, head held high, not crawling in. Negotiations? Yes. Unconditional acceptance of whatever terms are offered us? No.
Harold Wilson
The woman with dark hair, wide hips, and a few extra pounds has always been the essence of beauty in Morocco.
Fatema Mernissi
We put the labels we choose on things [...], and for our own purposes. That is the long and the short of it.
Andrew Taylor
Every generation is obsessed with the decade before they were born.
Fiona Shaw
The contemplation of beauty in nature, in art, in literature, in human character, diffuses through our being a soothing and subtle joy, by which the heart's anxious and aching cares are softly smiled away.
Edwin Percy Whipple
