This is a brief life, but in its brevity it offers us some splendid moments, some meaningful adventures.
The French still offer Sartre and Derrida rather than Pascal.
India offers demographic dividend, democracy and demand. . . 3D. I have added a new D. De-regulation.
A human being sheds its leaves like a tree. Sickness prunes it down; and it no longer offers the same silhouette to the eyes which loved it, to the people to whom it afforded shade and comfort.
The present offers itself to our touch for only an instant of time and then eludes the senses.
American history offers no parallel to the friendship between John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, spanning the first half century of the Republic. . . . The publication, in full and integrated form, of the remarkable correspondence between these two eminent men is a notable event.
Innocence is thought charming because it offers delightful possibilities for exploitation.
Education doesn’t make you happy. Nor does freedom. We don’t become happy just because we’re free – if we are. Or because we’ve been educated – if we have. But because education may be the means by which we realize we are happy. It opens our eyes, our ears, tells us where delights are lurking, convinces us that there is only one freedom of any importance whatsoever, that of the mind, and gives us the assurance – the confidence – to walk the path our mind, our educated mind, offers.
I already get 10 job offers a year, which is more than I can handle anyway.
Wanting the best that life has to offer is so nice. Working for the best that life has to offer is greater.
If someone offers you a three picture deal at 20 you'd take it. I would have killed for it.
In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order. . . we are caught and entangled in aimless experience. . . It is a moment of collapse. . . Only when all crutches and props are broken, and no cover from the rear offers even the slightest hope of security, does it become possible for us to experience an archetype that up till then had lain hidden. . . this is the archetype of meaning.
That which offers no resistance can enter where there is no space.
Witchcraft offers the model of a religion of poetry, not theology. It presents metaphors, not doctrines, and leaves open the possibility of reconciliation of science and religion, of many ways of knowing.
My mother taught me that the universe guides, teaches, and offers up gifts. . . even when bad things happen.
Personally, I think life offers us the opportunity to take chances and make changes all the time.
Every problem must find it's owner before we can ever offer a solution
For those who aspire to live in a high cost, high tax, big government place, our nation and the world offers plenty of options. Vermont, Canada and Venezuela all offer you the opportunity to live in the socialist, big government paradise you long for.
Also we Italians have something to Elvis Presley: to offer one of the rare occasions when we prefer to be Italian rather than American.
Geology. . . offers always some material for observation. . . . [When] spring and summer come round, how easily may the hammer be buckled round the waist, and the student emerge from the dust of town into the joyous air of the country, for a few delightful hours among the rocks.