The greatest part of intimate confidences proceed from a desire either to be pitied or admired.
I am no poet, but if you think for yourselves, as I proceed, the facts will form a poem in your minds.
Will is the measure of power. To a great genius there must be a great will. If the thought is not a lamp to the will, does not proceed to an act, the wise are imbecile. He alone is strong and happy who has a will. The rest are herds. He uses; they are used. He is of the Maker; they are of the Made. Will is always miraculous, being the presence of God to men. When it appears in a man he is a hero, and all metaphysics are at fault.
Neither in tailoring nor in legislating does man proceed by mere accident.
The Southerner is usually tolerant of those weaknesses that proceed from innocence.
The Puritan ethic of marriage was first to look not for a partner whom you do love passionately at this moment but rather for one whom you can love steadily as your best friend for life, then to proceed with God’s help to do just that.
I just have to proceed as usual. No matter what happens, nothing helps with the writing of the next book.
The cyber review team will proceed with the most sensitive systems first, but ultimately all systems will be analyzed and made as secure as modern technology permits. And hopefully, that's gonna be our technology.
We may either proceed from principles to facts, or recede from facts to principles
It is a good thing to proceed in order and to establish propositions. This is the way to gain ground and to progress with certainty.
Civilizations proceed from the heart rather than from the head.
a novelist's chief desire is to be as unconscious as possible. He has to induce in himself a state of perpetual lethargy. He wants life to proceed with the utmost quiet and regularity. He wants to see the same faces, to read the same books, to do the same things day after day, month after month, while he is writing, so that nothing may break the illusion in which he is living - so that nothing may disturb or disquiet the mysterious nosings about, feelings around, darts, dashes, and sudden discoveries of that very shy and illusive spirit, the imagination.
We must proceed with a full realization that no statute enacted by man can repeal the inexorable laws of nature.
From my point of view, he can be called a remarkable man who stands out from those around him by the resourcefulness of his mind, and who knows how to be restrained in the manifestations which proceed from his nature, at the same time conducting himself justly and tolerantly towards the weaknesses of others.
The prosecution [of impeachments], will seldom fail to agitate the passions of the whole community, and to divide it into parties more or less friendly or inimical to the accused. The subjects of its jurisdiction are those offenses which proceed from the misconduct of public men, or, in other words, from the abuse or violation of some public trust, and they relate chiefly to injuries done immediately to the society itself.
The straight line cannot proceed through the torturous twists of life.
All literature, highbrow or low, from the Aeneid onward, is fan fiction. . . . Through parody and pastiche, allusion and homage, retelling and reimagining the stories that were told before us and that we have come of age loving--amateurs--we proceed, seeking out the blank places in the map that our favorite writers, in their greatness and negligence, have left for us, hoping to pass on to our own readers--should we be lucky enough to find any--some of the pleasure that we ourselves have taken in the stuff that we love: to get in on the game. All novels are sequels; influence is bliss.
A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and an action which does not proceed from a thought is nothing at all.
The march to our duty here, not merely to ourselves, but to our surroundings, must proceed. God wills it.
Men living in democratic times have many passions, but most of their passions either end in the love of riches, or proceed from it.