Physionomies Quotes & Sayings

Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch. — E. M. Forster

Camp taste turns its back on the good-bad axis of ordinary aesthetic judgment. Camp doesn't reverse things. It doesn't argue that the good is bad, or the bad is good. What it does is to offer for art, and life, a different - a supplementary - set of standards. — Susan Sontag

We must stop eating!' cried Toad as he ate another. — Arnold Lobel

Taoist philosophy, Rest is prior to motion and stillness prior to action. — Arianna Huffington

There is little to be gained from looking backward with disapproval at the consistency of human folly except to notice how each generation thinks itself immune to its predecessor's mistakes. — John H. Makin

If the masses are not thrown a few novels , they may react by throwing up a few barricades. — Terry Eagleton

Many people don't realize until they are on their deathbed and everything external falls away that no thing ever had anything to do with who they are. — Eckhart Tolle

We shall remember Gaddafi our whole lives as a great fighter, a revolutionary and a martyr. — Hugo Chavez

Why, on my mother's birthday, am I thinking about 'Father Knows Best?' At our house, mother knew best at least as often as father did, but then the title of the old sitcom, a homogenized portrait of American family life, was meant to be slightly sardonic. — Tom Shales

[The] subjective [historical] element in geologic studies accounts for two characteristic types that can be distinguished among geologists: one considering geology as a creative art, the other regarding geology as an exact science. — Reinout Willem Van Bemmelen

If we go on using the Earth uncaringly and without replenishing it, then we are just greedy consumers. — Satish Kumar

Trying to find my flaws is like trying to find a black person at one of our concerts — Thom Yorke

Artistic inevitability lies in the complete adequacy of the external to the emotion. — T. S. Eliot

In our abandonment we give ourselves over to God just as God gave Himself for us, without any calculations. The consequences of abandonment never enter into our outlook because our life is taken up in Him. — Oswald Chambers