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3818 English Quotes

No man was ever yet a great poet, without at the same time being a profound philosopher.

Man Great Poet Philosopher
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No mind is thoroughly well-organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.

Mind Well-organized Deficient Humor
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Deep thinking is attainable only by a man of deep feeling, and all truth is a species of revelation

Deep thinking Man Truth Revelation
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Prose: words in their best order; poetry: the best words in the best order.

Prose Words Best Order
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Little is taught by contest or dispute, everything by sympathy and love.

Little Taught Sympathy Love
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He prayeth best who loveth best, all things both great and small.

Prayeth Loveth Great Small
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that willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith

Willing Disbelief Moment Faith
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He who begins by loving Christianity more than Truth, will proceed by loving his sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.

He Christianity Truth Loving
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Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Common sense Degree World Wisdom
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The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.

Happiness Life Smile Compliment
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In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly

Politics Begins Fear Folly
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Until you understand a writer's ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.

Understand Writer's Ignorance
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People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.

People Humor Degree Genius
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O lady! we receive but what we give And in our life alone does Nature live.

Receive Give Life alone Nature
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Men, I still think, ought to be weighed, not counted. Their worth ought to be the final estimate of their value.

Men Think Worth Value
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The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.

Love Mother Heart Heavenly father
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Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.

Imagination Living power Human Perception
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Earth, with her thousand voices, praises God.

Earth Voices Praises God
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The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.

Doing Evil Avoid Cannot
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Within today, tomorrow is already walking.

Within Today Tomorrow Walking
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If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?.

You Thinking Man Purpose
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Painting is the intermediate between a thought and a thing.
Painting Intermediate Thought Thing
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Happiness can be built only on virtue, and must of necessity have truth for its foundation.

Happiness Virtue Truth Foundation
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Love is the admiration and cherishing of the amiable qualities of the beloved person, upon the condition of yourself being the object of their action.

Love Admiration Qualities Action
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Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a life and a living process.

Christianity Speculation Life Philosophy
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The worst and the best that the internet ever did was give everybody a voice.

Worst Best Internet Voice
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Being a geek is all about being honest about what you enjoy...

Being Geek Honest Enjoy
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Happiness is where you start from rather than where you go. God, I sound like Yoda.

Happiness Start Go God
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Being a geek is extremely liberating

Being Geek Extremely Liberating
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We are never more creative than when we are at odds with the world and there is nothing so artistically destructive as comfort.

Creative Odds World Comfort
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I'm simply saying that our deepest thoughts, desires and preoccupations manifest themselves in art, whether we intend them to or not. That's what art is for; it's not cerebral, it's emotional.

Thought Desires Art Emotional
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Relationships are temporary, friendships are forever! Unless they sleep with your boyfriend!

Relationships Temporary Friendships Forever
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I really dislike watching myself on screen. I am very insecure about my acting. We are our own biggest critics. I have to sit in another room to my parents when they watch it.

Really dislike Watching myself Very insecure My acting
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You've got to be happy when you play a sad character; otherwise, you just get depressed. Make your real life as fun as possible.

Be happy Sad character Otherwise Get depressed
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To me, bravery is to stand up for what you believe in.

Bravery Stand up Believe in
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If you believe, you can achieve' - that's my motto!

You believe Can achieve
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Look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see, and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious.

Look up The star Your feet Make sense
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However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.

Difficult life May seem Always something Can do
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Most sets of values would give rise to universes that, although they might be very beautiful, would contain no one able to wonder at that beauty.

Values Give rise Universes Very beautiful
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God not only plays dice, He also sometimes throws the dice where they cannot be seen.

God Plays dice Sometimes throw Be seen
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We are in danger of destroying ourselves by our greed and stupidity. We cannot remain looking inwards at ourselves on a small and increasingly polluted and overcrowded planet.

In danger Destroying ourselves Our greedy Increasingly polluted
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I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image.

Computer viruses Should court As life Human nature
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There are grounds for cautious optimism that we may now be near the end of the search for the ultimate laws of nature.

Are grounds Cautious optimism Ultimate laws Nature
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Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.

Intelligence The ability Adapt Change
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I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.

Even people Claim everything Is predestined Change it
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I don't think the human race will survive the next thousand years, unless we spread into space.
Human race Will survive Thousand years We spread
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Although September 11 was horrible, it didn't threaten the survival of the human race, like nuclear weapons do.

Was horrible The survival Human race Nuclear weapons
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There are too many accidents that can befall life on a single planet.

Many accident Befall life Single planet
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We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn't want to meet.

Intelligent life Might develop
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There is no heaven or afterlife for broken-down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.

No heaven Broken down Computers Fairy story
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