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Poetry is a sort of homecoming. (Paul Celan)
'War,' says Machiavelli, 'ought to be the only study of a prince' and by a prince he means every sort of state, however constituted. 'He ought,' says this great political doctor, 'to consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes ability to execute military plans. 'A meditation on the conduct of political societies made old Hobbes imagine that war was the state of nature. View quote
Edmund Burke
They made and recorded a sort of institute and digest of anarchy, called the Rights of Man. View quote
Edmund Burke
Usually, in the studio, on this sort of thing... you just go out and have a play over it, and see what comes, and it's usually - mostly - the first take that's the best one, and you find yourself repeating yourself thereafter. View quote
David Gilmour
A lot of people say you always come back to what you are good at. Football has been 25 years of my life, so maybe I'll come back to it in some sort of way. View quote
Dennis Bergkamp
The very general occurrence of the homosexual in ancient Greece, and its wide occurrence today in some cultures in which such activity is not taboo suggests that the capacity of an individual to respond erotically to any sort of stimulus, whether it is provided by another person of the same or opposite sex, is basic in the species. View quote
Alfred Kinsey
It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
Strange new problems are being reported in the growing generations of children whose mothers were always there, driving them around, helping them with their homework - an inability to endure pain or discipline or pursue any self-sustained goal of any sort, a devastating boredom with life. View quote
Betty Friedan
Plants of great vigor will almost always struggle into blossom, despite impediments. But there should be encouragement, and a free genial atmosphere for those of more timid sort, fair play for each in its own kind. View quote
Margaret Fuller
Most religious stories and mythologies have some sort of similar root, some sort of global archetypes. View quote
Maynard James Keenan
That sort of fundamentalism which treats possession of private property not as a desirable economic and personal asset but as a condition of liberty is a form of primitive religion. (Neil Kinnock)
If you want to get rich from writing, write the sort of thing that's read by persons who move their lips when they're reading to themselves. View quote
Don Marquis
A dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion. View quote
George Orwell
I suppose I have become a sort of living monument in Portugal. But I come from a family with roots all over the world, so the idea of patriotism is not very strong in me. My country is the country of Chekhov, Beethoven, Velasquez - writers I like, painters and artists I admire. View quote
António Lobo Antunes
The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling. View quote
Paula Poundstone
The essayist ... can pull on any sort of shirt, be any sort of person, according to his mood or his subject matter philosopher, scold, jester, raconteur, confidant, pundit, devil's advocate, enthusiast. View quote
E. B. White
Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief. View quote
Jane Austen
The wrongs done to trees, wrongs of every sort, are done in the darkness of ignorance and unbelief, for when the light comes, the heart of the people is always right. View quote
John Muir
If somebody thinks they're a hedgehog, presumably you just give 'em a mirror and a few pictures of hedgehogs and tell them to sort it out for themselves. View quote
Douglas Adams
From the age of fifteen, dogma has been the fundamental principle of my religion: I know no other religion; I cannot enter into the idea of any other sort of religion; religion, as a mere sentiment, is to me a dream and a mockery. View quote
John Henry Newman
I write with a sort of grim determination to deal with things that are hidden and difficult and this means, I think, that pleasure is out of the question. I would associate this with narcissism anyway and I would disapprove of it. (Colm Tóibín)
Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Two man talk and one may hear, but three cannot take part in a conversation of the most sincere and searching sort. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Peace Corps is a sort of Howard Johnson's on the main drag into maturity. View quote
Paul Theroux
Chicago is an October sort of city even in spring. View quote
Nelson Algren