Mark Twain quotes
That cat will write her autograph all over your leg if you let her.
Марк Твен
2884 Quotes
Dave Barry quotes
Derangement is the only possible explanation for owning a cat, an animal whose preferred mode of communication is to sink its claws three-quarters of an inch into your flesh.
Dave Barry quotes
You've read newspaper stories about elderly widows who die and leave their entire estates to their pet cats, right? Well, your cat reads those stories too, and has spent most of its skulking, devious little life dreaming about inheriting all your money.
Bette Midler quotes
Cats always seem so very wise, when staring with their half-closed eyes. Can they be thinking, I'll be nice, and maybe she will feed me twice?
Бетти Мидлер
125 Quotes
Walter Scott quotes
Ridicule, the weapon of all others most feared by enthusiasts of every description, and which from its predominance over such minds, often checks what is absurd, and fully as often smothers that which is noble.
Вальтер Скотт
283 Quotes
Khalil Gibran quotes
Now I realize that the trees blossom in Spring and bear fruit in Summer without seeking praise; and they drop their leaves in Autumn and become naked in Winter without fearing blame.
Халиль Джебран
915 Quotes
Sigmund Freud quotes
The motive forces of phantasies are unsatisfied wishes, and every single phantasy is the fulfillment of a wish, a correction of unsatisfying reality.
Зигмунд Фрейд
555 Quotes
Pelham Wodehous quotes
I wouldn't have a face like that,' proceeded the child, with a good deal of earnestness, 'not if you gave me a million dollars.' He thought for a moment, then corrected himself. 'Two million dollars!' he added.
Max Scheler quotes
Whenever convictions are not arrived at by direct contact with the world and the objects themselves, but indirectly through a critique of the opinions of others, the processes of thinking are impregnated with ressentiment. The establishment of 'criteria' for testing the correctness of opinions then becomes the most important task. Genuine and fruitful criticism judges all opinions with reference to the object itself. Ressentiment criticism, on the contrary, accepts no 'object' that has not stood the test of criticism
Макс Шелер
7 Quotes
Ernst Mach quotes
Similarly, many a young man, hearing for the first time of the refraction of stellar light, has thought that doubt was cast on the whole of astronomy, whereas nothing is required but an easily effected and unimportant correction to put everything right again.
Эрнст Мах
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Giacomo Kazanova quotes
The man who seeks to educate himself must first read and then travel in order to correct what he has learned.
Bertrand Russell quotes
A word is used 'correctly' when the average hearer will be affected by it in the way intended. This is a psychological, not a literary, definition of 'correctness'. The literary definition would substitute, for the average hearer, a person of high education living a long time ago; the purpose of this definition is to make it difficult to speak or write correctly.
Бертран Рассел
1415 Quotes
Thomas Harris quotes
Before Me you are a slug in the sun. You are privy to a great Becoming and you recognize nothing. You are an ant in the after-birth.It is in your nature to do one thing correctly: before Me you rightly tremble. Fear is not what you owe Me, Lounds, you and the other pismires. You owe Me awe.
Томас Харрис
77 Quotes
Ethelda Bleibtrey quotes
The war on drugs was never meant to be won. Instead, it will be prolonged as long as possible in order to allow various intelligence operations to wring the last few hundreds of millions of dollars in illicit profits from the global drug scam; then defeat will have to be declared. 'Defeat' will mean, as it did in the case of the Vietnam War, that the media will correctly portray the true dimensions of the situation and the real players, and that public revulsion at the culpability, stupidity and venality of the Establi
George Kennan quotes
A political society does not live to conduct foreign policy; it would be more correct to say that it conducts foreign policy in order to live.
Джордж Кеннан
52 Quotes
Amos Tversky quotes
Chance is commonly viewed as a self-correcting process in which a deviation in one direction induces a deviation in the opposite direction to restore the equilibrium. In fact, deviations are not 'corrected' as a chance process unfolds, they are merely diluted.
Амос Тверски
5 Quotes
Stephen King quotes
The object of fiction isn't grammatical correctness but to make the reader welcome and then tell a story.... Writing is seduction. Good talk is part of seduction.
Стивен Кинг
1467 Quotes
Clive Lewis quotes
And since we cannot deceive the whole human race all the time, it is most important thus to cut every generation off from all others; for where learning makes a free commerce between the ages there is always the danger that the characteristic errors of one may be corrected by the characteristic truths of another.
Клайв Льюис
2221 Quotes