A World is not an ideology nor a scientific institution, nor is it even a system of ideologies; rather, it is a structure of unconscious relations... →
William Irwin Thompson
In some ways, it's better that Obama got elected than McCain. I'd rather be stabbed in the chest with an Obama steak knife than to have been... →
Brad Thor
I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid... →
Henry David Thoreau
If it is surely the means to the highest end we know, can any work be humble or disgusting? Will it not rather be elevating as a ladder, the means by... →
It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart; it being much more sensitive.
I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.
If I seem to boast more than is becoming, my excuse is that I brag for humanity rather than for myself.
I say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.
Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed by them.
The nation that complacently and fearfully allows its artists and writers to become suspected rather than respected is no longer regarded as a nation... →
James Thurber