That was the saddest thing for Sybille: after twenty minutes you have got as far with these people as after half a year, as after ...many years, nothing more is added.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The sixth age shifts Into the lean and slippered pantaloon,... With spectacles on nose, and pouch on side, His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide For his shrunk shank, and his big manly voice, Turning again toward childish treble, pipes And whistles in his sound.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I know that whatever God does endures forever; nothing can be added to it, nor anything taken from it; God has done this, so that ...all should stand in awe before him.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I had been curiously depressed all day. In the night I wakened. First precise thought: I know why I'm depressed--nothing inspired ...is going on. Second: I demand that life be inspired every moment. Third: the only way to guarantee this is to have inspired conversation every moment. Fourth: most people never get so far as conversation; they haven't the stamina, and there is no time. Fifth: if I had a magazine I could spend my time filling it up with the best conversation the world has to offer. Sixth: marvelous idea--salvation. Seventh: decision to do it. Deep sleep.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
he held the proper opinions for the time of year; When there was peace, he was for peace; when there was war, he went.... He was married and added five children to the population, Which our Eugenist says was the right number for a parent of his generation, And our teachers report that he never interfered with their education. Was he free? Was he happy? The question is absurd.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
All my life long I have been sensible of the injustice constantly done to women. Since I have had to fight the world single-handed..., there has not been one day I have not smarted under the wrongs I have had to bear, because I was not only a woman, but a woman doing a man's work, without any man, husband, son, brother or friend, to stand at my side, and to see some semblance of justice done me. I cannot forget, for injustice is a sixth sense, and rouses all the others.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Long ago I added to the true old adage of "What is everybody's business is nobody's business," another clause which, I think, more... than any other principle has served to influence my actions in life. That is, What is nobody's business is my business.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There can be no knowledge without emotion. We may be aware of a truth, yet until we have felt its force, it is not ours. To the co...gnition of the brain must be added the experience of the soul.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I have, thanks to my travels, added to my stock all the superstitions of other countries. I know them all now, and in any critical... moment of my life, they all rise up in armed legions for or against me.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
the future is simply nothing at all. Nothing has happened to the present by becoming past except that fresh slices of existence ha...ve been added to the total history of the world. The past is thus as real as the present.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »