Travelling, gentlemen, is medieval, today we have means of communication, not to speak of tomorrow and the day after, means of com...munication that bring the world into our homes, to travel from one place to another is atavistic.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The female part of the Cry (who had many of them often experienced a joyful self- approbation on being told by their admirers that... all their perfection lay in folly and that to prove their wisdom they must shun, as poison, every offered instruction for fear of becoming disagreeable to their lovers) now felt rolling in their bosoms the highest anger and disdain. Not against their adorers for so preposterous a method of flattery, much less against themselves for receiving and being pleased with such absurd adulation: but all their indignation was pointed against Portia for daring to bring into open light the true meaning of such paradoxical stuff.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Politics is repetition. It is not change. Change is something beyond what we call politics. Change is the essence politics is supp...osed to be the means to bring into being.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We would write books that should bring us world-wide fame, we would travel under every sky on the globe; we would walk through inn...umerable picture galleries and bring home the pictures we liked best; we would wear gold chains and diamond tiaras, and in our plans we had the purse of Fortunatus and the luck of Alladin's [sic] lamp.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You that do search for every purling spring Which from the ribs of old Parnassus flows,... And every flower, not sweet perhaps, which grows Near thereabouts into your poesy wring; You that do dictionary's method bring Into your rhymes, running in rattling rows;LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Here the term 'language-game' is meant to bring into prominence the fact that the speaking of language is part of an activity, of ...a form of life.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is a mischievous notion that we are come late into nature; that the world was finished a long time ago. As the world was plasti...c and fluid in the hands of God, so it is ever to so much of his attributes as we bring to it. To ignorance and sin, it is flint. They adapt to themselves to it as they may; but in proportion as a man has anything in him divine, the firmament flows before him and takes his signet and form.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I think it a much wiser thing to secure for the thousands of mothers in this State the legal control of the children they now have..., than to bring others into the world who would not belong to me after they were born.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Nobody can misunderstand a boy like his own mother.... Mothers at present can bring children into the world, but this performance ...is apt to mark the end of their capacities. They can't even attend to the elementary animal requirements of their offspring. It is quite surprising how many children survive in spite of their mothers.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »