Flippancy, the most hopeless form of intellectual vice . . .
George Gissing
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Flippancy, the most hopeless form of intellectual vice.
GEORGE GISSING I'm going to be a vice president very much like George Bush was. He proved to be a very effective vi...
DAN QUAYLE I'm going to be a vice president very much like George Bush was. He proved to be a very effectiv...
DAN QUAYLE People resent articulacy, as if articulacy were a form of vice.
FREDERIC RAPHAEL The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice
BERTRAND RUSSELL The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.
BERTRAND RUSSELL George Bush's political, intellectual and other shortcomings cannot be restricted to one sentence.
EMILIO BOTIN With the wise man, what he has does not cease to be enjoyable because some one else has something el...
BERTRAND RUSSELL I hold no candle for George Osborne whatsoever. He has no strategic skills, is a hopeless chancellor...
ALASTAIR CAMPBELL Suppression is a form of social and intellectual terrorism which results in oppression.
JACKSON TAVIRI His cheek bones were protruding and eyes were sunk. I waved at him but he stole the gaze.
RANJANI RAMACHANDRAN When I talked to him on the phone yesterday. I called him George rather than Mr. Vice President. But...
DAN QUAYLE Nothing is so envied as genius, nothing so hopeless of attainment by labor alone. Though labor alway...
B. R. HAYDEN When I talked to him on the phone yesterday. I called him George rather than Mr. Vice President. But...
DAN QUAYLE Cheney refers to his vice presidency... as one of the most consequential vice presidencies in Americ...
R. J. CUTLER The questions of philosophy proper are human desires and fears and aspirations - human emotions - ta...
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GEORGE GISSING It is the mind which creates the world around us, and even though we stand side by side in the same ...
GEORGE GISSING Persistent prophecy is a familiar way of assuring the event.
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GEORGE GISSING It is the mind which creates the world about us, and even though we stand side by side in the same m...
GEORGE GISSING Literature nowadays is a trade. Putting aside men of genius, who may succeed by mere cosmic force, y...
GEORGE GISSING Money is time. With money I buy for cheerful use the hours which otherwise would not in any sense be...
GEORGE GISSING Have the courage of your desire.
GEORGE GISSING For the man sound in body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather; every sky has it...
GEORGE GISSING Blood is a cleansing and sanctifying thing, and the nation that regards it as the final horror has l...
GEORGE GISSING That is one of the bitter curses of poverty; it leaves no right to be
generous.
GEORGE GISSING The first time I read an excellent work, it is to me just as if I gained a new friend; and when I re...
GEORGE GISSING Nowhere is the English genius of domesticity more notably evident than in the festival of afternoon ...
GEORGE GISSING Life, I fancy, would very often be insupportable, but for the luxury of self-compassion.
GEORGE GISSING Life is a huge farce, and the advantage of possessing a sense of humour is that it enables one to de...
GEORGE GISSING Well, I wasn't going to abuse him. I was only going to ask: Is there any quality which distinguishes...
GEORGE GISSING George Bush was for me the most important ally on the road to German unity.
HELMUT KOHL One hardly knows which is the more appalling: the abjectness of the credulity or the flippancy of th...
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW Piety is the most solid goodness, and the vilest of what is evil is vice.
ABU BAKR In the power of fixing the attention lies the most precious of the intellectual habits.
ROBERT HALL It is the besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual for...
JAMES FENIMORE COOPER It is the besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form...
JAMES F. COOPER What passes for optimism is most often the effect of an intellectual error.
RAYMOND ARON We believe that in your province you have granted a second term to our president, George W. Bush, an...
BILLY GRAHAM The portraits of Dora Maar are among the most popular and most important works that he did. For the ...
CHARLES MOFFETT It is a besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form i...
JAMES FENIMORE COOPER Play reaches the habits most needed for intellectual growth.
BRUNO BETTELHEIM Play reaches the habits most needed for intellectual growth
BRUNO BETTELHEIM Intellectual curiosity drove Einstein to some of the world's most important discoveries.
GORDON GEE Even the most dismal and hopeless-sounding Wilco music, to my ears, has always maintained a level of...
JEFF TWEEDY I don't know if I have a favorite color.
KATE MIDDLETON It's very special having a new little girl.
KATE MIDDLETON Systems engineers are becoming designers who form the [basis for] small, well-trained, efficient tea...
DAN SHAVER Chivalry is the most delicate form of contempt.
ALBERT GUERARD Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.
JACQUES MARITAIN Imitation is the most serious form of flattery
PROVERB Food is the most primitive form of comfort.
SHEILA GRAHAM Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy
JACQUES MARITAIN Kindness is the most meaningful form of progress.
BRANDON A. TREAN Indifference is the most lasting form of punishment
DONALD LYNN FROST To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intel...
OSCAR WILDE To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most int...
OSCAR WILDE To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intel...
OSCAR WILDE Four years of Jimmy Carter gave us two titanic Reagan landslides, peace and prosperity for eight ble...
ANN COULTER When hopeful and hopeless come together, both will learn great things from each other: Hopeful will ...
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN The willing contemplation of vice is vice.
ARABIAN PROVERB The willing contemplation of vice is vice
ARABIAN PROVERB I think music is the most phenomenal platform for intellectual thought.
ANNIE LENNOX We are putting our most valuable intellectual property on the table.
BRAD SMITH Under Dick Cheney, this has been the most substantive vice presidency in history.
TERRY HOLT I longed to be bright and most certainly never was. I was rather hopeless, I suspect.
MAGGIE SMITH Autobiography is probably the most respectable form of lying.
HUMPHREY CARPENTER Lying is the most simple form of self-defence.
SUSAN SONTAG I regard the discovery of one’s favorite author as the most critical event in one’s intellectual...
LIN YUTANG Social media is the most disruptive form of communication humankind has seen since the last disrupti...
RYAN HOLMES The most praiseworthy form of painting is one that most resembles what it imitates.
LEONARDO DA VINCI George is a total professional and I expect him to be in top form for his next objective, the Tour d...
JOHAN BRUYNEEL Bridges are perhaps the most invisible form of public architecture.
BRUCE JACKSON I'm afraid to hope but I can't help it, and the idea of hoping in this most hopeless of all places m...
BEATRICE SPARKS When men understand what each other mean, they see, for the most part, that controversy is either su...
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN London is on the whole the most possible form of life.
HENRY JAMES Moral courage is the most valuable and usually the most absent characteristic in men.” —General ...
HOURLY HISTORY Work is man's most natural form of relaxation.
DAGOBERT D. RUNES Consider the vice president, George Bush, a man so bedeviled by bladder problems that he managed, fo...
BARBARA EHRENREICH Our purest form of joy comes when people we envy get hurt. That most genuine form of joy.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Why, can you imagine what would happen if we named all the twos Henry or George or Robert or John or...
NORTON JUSTER Over the years, George has been one of the most successful equity portfolio managers in the financia...
ROBERT POZEN Expecting something for nothing is the most popular form of hope.
ARNOLD H. GLASOW Lying is the most simple form of self-defence. -Susan Sontag.
SUSAN SONTAG Ageism is the most pervasive form of prejudice in Britain today,
DOMINIC ABRAMS Expecting something for nothing is the most popular form of hope.
ARNOLD H. GLASGOW The laws of a nation form the most instructive portion of its history
EDWARD BIGGON He's confronting a real problem that most of the people here in St. George aren't willing to confron...
LINDA JONES Gardening requires lots of water - most of it in the form of perspiration.
LOU ERICKSON Why would you pick someone who was director of press relations for the most disliked, discredited vi...
GARRY SOUTH One of the most important things liberals don't understand about conservatism, obscured by too m...
RICK PERLSTEIN He's in good position to backchannel with the Senate, being vice-chairman of the Commission on Appoi...
GABRIEL CLAUDIO Type is one of the most eloquent means of expression in every epoch of style. Next to architecture, ...
PETER BEHRENS As regards this vice, we read that the peacock is more guilty of it than any other animal. For it is...
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Wonder or dream from distant land
I carried to my country's strand
STEFAN GEORGE The secret is not to give up hope. It's very hard not to because if you're really doing some...
GEORGE LUCAS I remarked constantly, just at sunset, in these latitudes, that the eastern horizon was brilliantly ...
GEORGE GREY