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A man's feet must be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.


George Santayana

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A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
GEORGE SANTAYANA A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
GEORGE SANTAYANA But the main things about a man are his eyes and his feet. He should be able to see the world and go...
ALFRED DOBLIN A man who has both feet planted firmly in the air can be safely called a liberal as opposed to the c...
JACQUES BARZUN A man who has both feet planted firmly in the air can be safely called a liberal as opposed to the c...
JACQUES BARZUN He is a sports superstar with his feet firmly planted in reality.
TONY HAWK The earth has its music for those who will listen
REGINALD VINCENT HOLMES "The name of American, which belongs to you, in your national capacity, must always exalt the just p...
GEORGE WASHINGTON Our feet are planted in the real world, but we dance with angels and ghosts.
JOHN CAMERON MITCHELL God did not create woman from man's head, that he should command her, nor from his feet, that she sh...
HEBREW PROVERB The patriot who feels himself in the service of God, who acknowledges Him in all his ways, has the p...
FRANCIS SCOTT KEY To remove mans comforts he has grown so accustomed to is the true test of his reinvention, whatever ...
DANIEL ROBERT O'NEILL A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
EDWARD ABBEY A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
EDWARD ABBEY If there is anything in the world that can really be called a mans property, it is surely that which...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER I had not then learned the philosophy which teaches that he who would attempt enterprises of great c...
WILLIAM REYNOLDS A mans discontent is his worst evill.
GEORGE HERBERT A king should die on his feet.
LOUIS XVIII Why does a virtuous man take delight in the landscapes? Because the din of the dusty world and the l...
KUO HIS Why does a virtuous man take delight in the landscapes? Because the din of the dusty world and the l...
KUO HIS To be really cosmopolitan, a man must be at home even in his own country.
THOMAS W. HIGGINSON I like eggs and bacon," George tells me. "But" - his face clouds - "do you know that bacon is" - tea...
HUNTLEY FITZPATRICK Behold him in conceited circles sail, Strutting and dancing and now planted stiff, In all his ...
AARON HILL To retain his dignity, an artist must live in opposition. He must be critical of his country. If not...
BRUNO DUMONT For a mans house is his castle, & domus sua cuique est tutissimum refugium; for where shall a ma...
SIR EDWARD COKE Graham Greene's work must be included in any survey of top-rank spy novels, and 'Our Man in ...
ALAN FURST In the main it will be found that a power over a mans support salary is a power over his will.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON The name of American, which belongs to you, in your national capacity, must always exalt the just pr...
GEORGE WASHINGTON A wicked mans gift hath a touch of his master.
GEORGE HERBERT The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of ...
WOODROW WILSON The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of...
WOODROW WILSON must be allowed to return to his own country forthwith.
MARGARET THATCHER To be really cosmopolitan a man must be at home even in his own country. - Thomas W. Higginso...
THOMAS W. HIGGINSON Whoever wants to be a Christian should tear the eyes out of his reason.
MARTIN LUTHER No one should be above his country and people.
MARIANA FULGER They talk of a man betraying his country, his friends, his sweetheart. There must be a moral bond fi...
JOSEPH CONRAD George turned to her. His blue eyes widened. His lovely face took on a forlorn, deeply troubled expr...
ILONA ANDREWS George Clooney sort of lost his 'George Clooney-ness' the first day I met him. He's not ...
SHAILENE WOODLEY A man who has both feet planted firmly in the air can be safely called a liberal.
PROVERB A man who has both feet planted firmly in the air can be safely called a liberal.
AMERICAN PROVERB Certainly it is no shame to a man that he should be as nice about his country as his sweetheart,- ye...
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL He's got the whole world at his feet and he can't find his shoes.
JOHN WILLIAMSON Youth, with swift feet, walks onward in the way; the land of joy lies all before his eyes.
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON Through all this world strode Vishnu:
thrice his foot he planted,
and the whole world was ...
VEDA A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
GERTRUDE STEIN Notoriously outspoken, his sentences always punctuated with profanities, General George S. Patton wa...
SIMON SINEK Christ has no body now but yours. No hands, no feet on earth but yours. Yours are the eyes through w...
TERESA OF ÁVILA We believe Slobodan Milosevic must be buried in his country, in Belgrade, at the Alley of Great Men.
IVICA DACIC The editor sat in his sanctum, his countenance furrowed with care, His mind at the bottom of busi...
WILL CARLETON Windisch closes his eyes. He feels his eyes. He feels his eyeballs in his hands. His eyes without a ...
HERTA MüLLER A steady patriot of the world alone, / The friend of every country but his own.
GEORGE CANNING “A man should be rich in thoughts, let his words amaze the world.” – Shahwan SETHI
MUHAMMAD SHAHWAN TARIQ He will therefore seek to establish for his country in the eyes of the world, such a character as sh...
FRANCIS SCOTT KEY No mans error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it.
THOMAS HOBBES A young wolfhound must meet his first wolf someday, but if the wolf sees him as a puppy, if he acts ...
ROBERT JORDAN He can’t take his eyes off the stars, but I can’t take mine off his face. I can see the stars re...
AMIE KAUFMAN A radical is a man with both feet firmly planted in the air.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT A radical is a man with both feet firmly planted in the air.
FRANKLIN DELANO ROOSEVELT Dumbledore was on his feet again, pale as any of the surrounding Inferi, but taller than any too, th...
J.K. ROWLING A mans face is his autobiography. A women's face is her work of fiction.
OSCAR WILDE i'm glad to be alive
in a world where
his gently awakening eyes
nourish the morning ...
SANOBER KHAN If a man wishes to be sure of the road he treads on, he must close his eyes and walk in the dark.
ST. JOHN OF THE CROSS If you want to know what a mans like,see how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.''-Sirius black...
J.K. ROWLING A Radical is a man with both feet firmly planted--in the air. A Conservative is a man with two perfe...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT The world is full of wonders and miracles but man takes his little hand and covers his eyes and sees...
ISRAEL BAAL SHEM And his eyes will only know darkness,
His ears will only know hatred,
His hands will onl...
ANONYMOUS And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his se...
BIBLE Saddam's fate should be in the hands of his country men. They were the major victims of his brut...
RONNIE JAMES DIO The college planted a tree in Greg's memory and put in a meditation garden in his honor.
DEBRA REEVES And the prettiest foot! Oh, if a man could but fasten his eyes to her feet, as they steal in and o...
WILLIAM CONGREVE An almost perfect relationship with his father was the earthly root of all his wisdom. From his own ...
C.S. LEWIS A cock should always know his limits and never have his eyes on the big heights like an eagle!
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN Nosoi?” Percy planted his feet in a fighting stance. “You know, I keep thinking, I have now kill...
RICK RIORDAN He is the richest man who enriches his country most; in whom the people feel richest and proudest; w...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN Rudford lay on his back in the grass and watched great cotton clouds slip through the sky. Peculiarl...
J.D. SALINGER In the week following his third-place finish in the region tournament, George became a different wre...
FRANK PETTINEO But thought's the slave of life, and life time's fool;And time, that takes survey of all the world,M...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The boy planted his hands on his hips and a broad smile lit his face. "My name's Peter. Can I play t...
BROM We must never undervalue any person. The workman loves not that his work should be despised in his p...
SAINT FRANCIS DE SALES A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get into accord with them: they are legiti...
SIGMUND FREUD First and foremost, the monk should own nothing in this world, but he should have as his possessions...
SAINT BASIL And it's his illusions about what
constitutes the real world which are inhibiting him...His rea...
LUKE RHINEHART His head was full of larceny, but his feet were honest.
ARTHUR BAER I’ll always be limited because I’m me and he’s he. I could put myself in his situation and wal...
MICHAEL SOLL You're right, my problems are the biggest problems ever," George said. "No, honestly, it's horrible ...
ILONA ANDREWS He had long ago learned that society imposes insults that must be borne, comforted by the knowledge ...
MARIO PUZO If a man could mount to heaven and survey the mighty universe, his admiration of its beauties would ...
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO One who never reads only goes where his feet can take him, but one who does, travels around the worl...
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart, his next to escape the censu...
JOSEPH ADDISON A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart, his next to escape the censur...
ENGLISH PROVERB You're full of contradictions, Ms. Wallace."
I looked up at him and arched a brow. "I'm a girl...
TAMMARA WEBBER In the very desire for help one is apt to forget that the objective should be to enable the individu...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT If your feet are firmly planted on the ground you'll never be able to dance.
IRIS JOHANSEN A man in all the world's new fashion planted,
That hath a mint of phrases in his brain.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I, for one, know of no sweeter sight for a man's eyes than his own country
JOHN GUNTHER A man, though wise, should never be ashamed of learning more, and must unbend his mind.
SOPHOCLES Answer a fool according to his folly, or he will be wise in his own eyes.
BIBLE An actor must interpret life, and in order to do so must be willing to accept all the experiences li...
JAMES DEAN Payne nailing him in the face woke him up.
George brought him back his independence.
But B...
J.R. WARD The President of the United States should strive to be always mindful of the fact that he serves his...
RUTHERFORD B. HAYES

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GEORGE SANTAYANA Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
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GEORGE SANTAYANA Repetition is the only form of permanence that nature can achieve.
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GEORGE SANTAYANA Character is the basis of happiness and happiness the sanction of character.
GEORGE SANTAYANA Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavor to understand him.
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GEORGE SANTAYANA America is a young country with an old mentality.
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GEORGE SANTAYANA Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there rem...
GEORGE SANTAYANA The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it.
GEORGE SANTAYANA Nothing is really so poor and melancholy as art that is interested in itself and not in its subject.
GEORGE SANTAYANA An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.
GEORGE SANTAYANA Fanaticism consists in redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim.
GEORGE SANTAYANA The young man who has not wept is a savage,
and the old man who will not laugh is a fool.
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GEORGE SANTAYANA The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal.
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GEORGE SANTAYANA The hunger for facile wisdom is the root of all false philosophy.
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GEORGE SANTAYANA Intolerance is a form of egotism, and to condemn egotism intolerantly is to share it.
GEORGE SANTAYANA To condemn spontaneous and delightful occupations because they are useless for self-preservation sho...
GEORGE SANTAYANA It is always pleasant to be urged to do something on the ground that one can do it well.
GEORGE SANTAYANA The world is not respectable; it is mortal, tormented, confused, deluded forever; but it is shot thr...
GEORGE SANTAYANA The more pleasure a universe can yield, other things being equal, the more beneficent and generous i...
GEORGE SANTAYANA Consciousness is a born hermit.
GEORGE SANTAYANA My atheism, like that of GEORGE SANTAYANA Culture is on the horns of this dilemma: if profound and noble it must remain rare, if common it mus...
GEORGE SANTAYANA In Greece wise men speak and fools decide.
GEORGE SANTAYANA The superiority of the distant over the present is only due to the mass and variety of the pleasures...
GEORGE SANTAYANA To understand one's self is the classic form of consolation; to delude one's self is the romantic.
GEORGE SANTAYANA Man is as full of potentiality as he is of impotence.
GEORGE SANTAYANA Nothing you can lose by dying is half as precious as the readiness to die, which is man's charter of...
GEORGE SANTAYANA Intolerance is a form of egotism, and to condemn egotism intolerantly is to share it
GEORGE SANTAYANA Old places and old persons in their turn, when spirit dwells in them, have an intrinsic vitality of ...
GEORGE SANTAYANA There is no dunce like a mature dunce
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