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Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress; having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.
— 1844 Coningsby, bk.2, ch.5.
A life of love is one of continual growth, where the doors and windows of experience are always open to the wonder and magic that life offers. To love is to risk living fully.
Leo Buscaglia— In interview with Veronica M. Hay, in A Magazine of People and Possibilities (1998)
Like almost everyone who uses e-mail, I receive a ton of spam every day. Much of it offers to help me get out of debt or get rich quick. It would be funny if it weren't so irritating.
bill gates— "Why I Hate Spam" in Microsoft PressPass (2003)
To claim for socialism that it is a class war is to do it an injustice and indefinitely postpone its triumph. Socialism offers a platform broad enough for all to stand upon. It makes war upon a system, not upon a class.
keir hardie— Said in 1908.
There are days when any electrical appliance in the house, including the vacuum cleaner, offers more entertainment than the TV set.
harriet van horne— Women Know Everything! by Karen Weekes, published by Quirk Books, 2007
The unwelcomed, unwanted, unwarranted, and force-induced intrusion upon the campus of the University of Alabama today of the might of the central government offers frightful example of the oppression of the rights, privileges and sovereignty of this state by officers of the federal government.
george wallace— Speech in the door of the University of Alabama auditorium
Alarmed by the famine of 1770, captain John Garstin built this huge granary Golghar for the British army in 1786. The massive structure is 29 m high and the walls are 3.6 m wide at the base. The winding stairway around this monument offers a brilliant panoramic view of the city and the Ganga flowing by.
— Bihar State Tourism Development Corporation, in "Destinations: Patna"
The right of the citizens to keep and bear arms has justly been considered, as the palladium of the liberties of a republic; since it offers a strong moral check against the usurpation and arbitrary power of rulers; and will generally, even if these are successful in the first instance, enable the people to resist and triumph over them.
joseph story— Joseph Story, Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States (1833), p. 708.
Important science is not just any similarity glimpsed for the first time.It offers analogiesthat map thegatewaysto unexplored terrain.
— 1984 Biophilia.
The greatest danger for those working in the cinema is the extraordinary possibility it offers for lying.
michelangelo antonioni— As quoted by the interviewer, from a preface to his screenplays
Penalty is different than punishment, because it offers something with which to regain honor.
vanna bonta— essay "Justice vs. Punishment", Bonta recalling being reprimanded as a child, as quoted on the Waleg Celebrity News Archive. Vanna Bonta’s First Lesson in Justice, WALEG Celebrities, September 14, 2006. Justice vs. Punishment, by Vanna Bonta
It is the show that keeps giving. Every night it offers something to society, and it offered something to every one of us. It brought us all together for a lifetime."
masiela lusha— Statement on Lopez Tonight during cast reunion
Yes, you like the money and the offers come in, but I don't think I know any actor who really, truly likes that glittery life. I think there's a lot of stress involved if you're up there.
hugo weaving— Interview The Sun Herald (6 August 2000)
What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish. This is bad for everyone; the majority lose all genuine taste of their own, and the minority become cultural snobs.
wystan hugh auden— "The Poet & The City", p.83
Wise children always choose a mother who was a shocking flirt in her maiden days, and so had several offers before she accepted their fortunate papa.
j. m. barrie— Ch. 22 (The Little White Bird (1902))
What [Nietzsche] calls slave morality is to him purely spite-morality; and this spite-morality gave new names to all ideals. Thus impotence, which offers no reprisal, became goodness; craven baseness became humility; submission to him who was feared became obedience; inability to assert one’s self became reluctance to assert one’s self, became forgiveness, love of one’s enemies. Misery became a distinction.
georg brandes— An Essay on Aristocratic Radicalism (1889, pg. 31-32)
Nature has mysterious infinities and imaginative power. It is always varying the productions it offers to us. The artist himself is one of nature's means.
Paul Gauguin— "Huysmans and Redon" (written 1889, published 1953), p. 39
When we seek a textbook case for the proper operation of science, the correction of certain error offers far more promise than the establishment of probable truth. Confirmed hunches, of course, are more upbeat than discredited hypotheses. Since the worst traditions of “popular” writing falsely equate instruction with sweetness and light, our promotional literature abounds with insipid tales in the heroic mode, although tough stories of disappointment and loss give deeper insight into a methodology that the celebrated philosopher Karl Popper once labeled as “conjecture and refutation.”
stephen jay gould— "An Essay on a Pig Roast", p. 437
A river is more than an amenity, it is a treasure. It offers a necessity of life that must be rationed among those who have power over it.
Holmes, Jr., Oliver Wendell— New Jersey v. New York, et al., 283 U.S. 336, 342 (1931).
The fox often offers the duck its pond.
robert jordan— Two Rivers saying
Poetry offers the fairest hope of restoring our lost unity of mind.
richard weaver— “The Power of the Word,” p. 53
Personally I believe the bicentenary offers us a chance not just to say how profoundly shameful the slave trade was – how we condemn its existence utterly and praise those who fought for its abolition, but also to express our deep sorrow that it ever happened, that it ever could have happened and to rejoice at the different and better times we live in today.
— Tony Blair, in a statement to New Nation (27 November 2006)
God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose.
ralph waldo emerson— p. 604. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
Hyderabad being the State Capital is highly developed in all aspects. It is situated at an altitude of 536 metres and offers pleasant weather conditions. The total geographical area of the District is 199.60 square kilometers.
— Profile, in "Industrial profile Hyderabad district."
Hollywood no longer offers entertainment. Instead, activism has replaced acting, and sermons have supplanted stories. Instead of a good yarn, you get a yawn.
— "2 Movie Gems Amid a Lot of Hollywood Hooey," WorldNetDaily.com, July 6, 2007.
Management is the most noble of professions if it’s practiced well. No other occupation offers as many ways to help others learn and grow, take responsibility and be recognized for achievement, and contribute to the success of a team.
— Clayton M. Christensen (2011) in: Harvard Business Review (2011) HBR's 10 Must Reads on Managing Yourself. p. 4
O, Columbia, the gem of the ocean, The home of the brave and the free, The shrine of each patriot's devotion, A world offers homage to thee.
— An adaptation of Shaw's Britannia.
A river is more than an amenity, it is a treasure. It offers a necessity of life that must be rationed among those who have power over it.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., New Jersey v. New York, et al., 283 U.S. 336, 342 (1931).
