Under Quotes - page 8

The trouble with us is that the ghetto of the Middle Ages and the children of the twentieth century have to live under one roof. (Anzia Yezierska)
Each of the Arts whose office is to refine, purify, adorn, embellish and grace life is under the patronage of a Muse, no god being found worthy to preside over them. View quote
Eliza Farnham
Statistician: A man who believes figures don't lie, but admits that under analysis some of them won't stand up either. View quote
Evan Esar
I associate my motion picture career more with being unhappy and scared, or being under the gun, than with anything pleasant. View quote
Francis Ford Coppola
It's ironic that at age 32, at probably the greatest moment of my career, with The Godfather having such an enormous success, I wasn't even aware of it, because I was somewhere else under the deadline again. View quote
Francis Ford Coppola
There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feeling as moral indignation, which permits envy or to be acted out under the guise of virtue. View quote
Erich Fromm
To most of us nothing is so invisible as an unpleasant truth. Though it is held before our eyes, pushed under our noses, rammed down our throats - we know it not. View quote
Eric Hoffer
Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is for them alone to point out what we ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do. View quote
Jeremy Bentham
We see in the 20th Century an unfortunate trench warfare, in which psychoanalysis, in a struggle against the internalized compulsion and superstition of a particular doctrine, has expressed itself atheistically. By contrast, theology is not merely under suspicion of talking soullessly about God. Both theology and psychology, in striving for human health, need one another like the right and the left hand. View quote
Eugen Drewermann
Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer. View quote
Mark Twain
I am she, O most bucolical juvenal, under whose charge are placed the milky mothers of the herd. (Walter Scott)
He that has light within his own clear breast, May sit i' the centre, and enjoy bright day; But he that hides a dark soul, and foul thoughts, Benighted walks under the mid-day sun; Himself is his own dungeon. View quote
John Milton
I love the ground under his feet, and the air over his head, and everything he touches and every word he says. I love all his looks, and all his actions and him entirely and all together. View quote
Emily Brontë
Why are there trees I never walk under but large and melodious thoughts descend upon me? View quote
Walt Whitman
Such is the role of poetry. It unveils, in the strict sense of the word. It lays bare, under a light which shakes off torpor, the surprising things which surround us and which our senses record mechanically. View quote
Jean Cocteau
Time crumbles things everything older under the power of Time and is forgotten through the lapse of Time. View quote
Aristotle
Even in those cities which seem to enjoy the blessings of peace, and where the arts florish, the inhabitants are devoured by envy, cares and anxieties, which are greater plagues than any expirienced in a town when it is under siege. View quote
Voltaire
This is a world of compensation and he who would be no slave must consent to have no slave. Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves and, under a just God, can not long retain it. View quote
Abraham Lincoln
It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder. View quote
Albert Einstein
If I would be a young man again and had to decide how to make my living, I would not try to become a scientist or teacher. I would rather choose to be a plumber or a peddler in the hope to find that modest degree of independence still available under present circumstances. View quote
Albert Einstein
Faith must trample under foot all reason, sense, and understanding. (Martin Luther)
Capitalism was reasonably content under Hitler, happy under Mussolini, very happy under Franco and delirious under General Pinochet. View quote
John Ralston Saul
Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged. View quote
Ronald Reagan
If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under. View quote
Ronald Reagan
Adults under threat feel like children. View quote
Martha Beck