Supplicants Synonyms Quotes & Sayings

Let me point out, if it has escaped your notice, that what an artist does, is fail. — Donald Barthelme

We live in an age when selfinterest alone seems to determine all of man's acts - and what empathy, what emotion, what enthusiasm can ever grow out of self interest. It is pleasanter to dream of those times of dedication, sacrifice, and heroism that used to be, and that have left honorable traces upon the earth. — Germaine De Stael

We're starting to realize that magicians have a lot of implicit know-ledge about how we perceive the world around us because they have to deceive us in terms of controlling attention, exploiting the assumptions we make when we do and don't notice a change in our environment. There is an enormous amount of really detailed instruction on how to perform magic. People are always blown away by how detailed a description you'll have. — Richard Wiseman

There are many who have grave scruples about deceiving but think it as nothing to deceive themselves. — Eric Hoffer

Just as religion can lead its devotees to suspend reason for faith, it can also lead them to suspend morality for piety. Indeed, — Ali A. Rizvi

Most sex is not really intimate. — Erica Jong

I think people always appreciate somebody else's informed educated opinion. To the degree that anybody with a computer can offer a journalistic point of view whether or not they have a degree, it sort of alters the validity of you have to place on anyone's individual comment. — Seth Green

If a man is alive, there is always danger that he may die, though the danger must be allowed to be less in proportion as he is dead-and-alive to begin with. A man sits as many risks as he runs. — Henry David Thoreau

Fire-lizard dance on wing
To the raucous song I sing.
Fire-lizrad wheel and turn,
Show me how the dragons learn. — Anne McCaffrey

Somehow in the 20th Century an idea has developed that music is an activity or skill which is not comprehensible to the man in the street. This is an arrogant assertion and not necessarily a true one. — Gavin Bryars

A woman is more influenced by what she divines than by what she is told. — Ninon De L'Enclos

To succeed in life, succeed at being yourself. — Napoleon Hill

If just half the Americans already getting a dog went the shelter route, then statistically speaking, every cage in US animal control facilities could be emptied. Right now. — Kim Kavin