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witty opposites long
A transposable aphorism is a malaise of the urge to be witty, or in other words, a maxim that is untroubled by the fact that the opposite of what it says is equally true so long as it appears to be funny. Umberto Eco
witty sex good-things
The good thing about masturbation is that you don't have to get dressed up for it. Truman Capote
witty humorous heart
Curiosity, that's what kills us. Not muggers or all that bullshit about the ozone layer. It's our own hearts and minds. Woody Allen
witty humorous ideas
I have no idea what I am doing but incompetence has never prevented me from plunging in with enthusiasm.
witty self-esteem humorous
Your self-esteem is a notch below Kafka.
witty stories love-story
Count on Jill Shalvis for a witty, steamy, unputdownable love story. Robyn Carr
witty night years
Old Madame du Deffand and her friends talked for fifty years without stopping. And of it all, what remains? Perhaps three witty sayings. So that we are at liberty to suppose either that nothing was said, or that nothing witty was said, or that the fraction of three witty sayings lasted eighteen thousand two hundred and fifty nights, which does not leave a liberal allowance of wit for any one of them. Virginia Woolf
witty chins
Keep a stiff upper chin. Samuel Goldwyn
witty century dialogue
Let's bring it up to date with some snappy nineteenth century dialogue.
powerful war nuclear-disarmament
The fact that lately some circles, not less powerful by their small size, have been actively promoting certain theories, as dangerous as they are illusory, of a "limited", "winnable" or "protracted" nuclear war, as well as their obsession of "nuclear superiority", make it advisable to bear always in mind that the immediate goal of all States, as was expressly declared in the Final Document of the Special Assembly of 1978, "is that of the elimination of the danger of a nuclear war" Alfonso G. Robles
powerful evil decision
You can't blame science for being used for evil purposes. What you can do is say, 'This is an exceedingly powerful tool.' And you want to make sure it is used for good purposes, not bad ones. That is a political decision. Richard Dawkins
powerful google insane
This is insane," I said blankly. "I'm the instrument of an all-powerful primordial deity's wave of chaos and destruction." "That's kind of extreme" said Dante jovially. "It's not like you work for Google or anything. Richelle Mead
powerful political shadow
The greatest and most powerful revolutions often start very quietly, hidden in the shadows. Remember that.
powerful hawaii territory
As a territory, American Samoa has no representation in the U.S. Senate, and we Samoans lost a respected and powerful ally with the passing of Hawaii Sen. Daniel Inouye. Troy Polamalu
powerful adventure self
The making of a picture ought surely to be a rather fascinating adventure. It is not; it is an endless contention of tawdry egos, some of them powerful, almost all of them vociferous, and almost none of them capable of anything much more creative than credit-stealing and self-promotion. Raymond Chandler
powerful poetry feelings
I have said that poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquillity: the emotion is contemplated till, by a species of reaction, the tranquillity gradually disappears, and an emotion, kindred to that which was before the subject of contemplation, is gradually produced, and does itself actually exist in the mind. William Wordsworth
powerful poetry feelings
Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.
powerful america errors
The important point was that whatever errors America had made [in Vietnam] "we are so powerful [according to Secretary Kissinger] that Hanoi is simply unable to defeat us militarily" and must therefore eventually be forced to compromise. William Shawcross
philosophy science engineering
Philosophy of science is about as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds. Richard P. Feynman
philosophy design innovation
When it comes to innovation, business has much to learn from design. The philosophy in design shops is, 'try it, prototype it, and improve it'. Roger Martin
philosophy ideas should
Only an unhinged movie survives as a disconnected series of images, of peaks, of visual icebergs. It should display not one central idea but many. It should not reveal a coherent philosophy of composition. It must live on, and because of, its glorious ricketiness.
philosophy believe opportunity
We believe that when the right talent meets the right opportunity in a company with the right philosophy, amazing transformation can happen. Reid Hoffman
philosophy discovery political
Leo Strauss's discoveries in the history of political philosophy had the effect of liberating his students from the yoke of contemporary thought. William Kristol
philosophy law medicine
The general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change. William James
philosophy mind quiet
To some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind.
philosophy mind states
Good-humor is a philosophic state of mind; it seems to say to Nature that we take her no more seriously than she takes us. I maintain that one should always talk of philosophy with a smile.
philosophy thinking stubborn
Philosophy is "an unusually stubborn attempt to think clearly.