A. E. Waite quote: "Now, occultism is not like mystic faculty, and it very seldom works in harmony either with business aptitude in the things of ordinary life or with a knowledge of the canons of evidence in its own sphere."

The true Tarot is symbolism; it speaks no other language and offers no other signs.
A. E. WAITE

If in any divination the Tenth Card should be a Court Card, it shews that the subject of the divinat...
A. E. WAITE

It will be thought that I am acting strangely in concerning myself at this day with what appears at ...
A. E. WAITE

The Empress has been connected with the ideas of universal fecundity and in a general sense with act...
A. E. WAITE

We have now seen that there is no particle of evidence for the Egyptian origin of Tarot cards.
A. E. WAITE

Behind the man is the Tree of Life, bearing twelve fruits, and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and...
A. E. WAITE

I'm not any more moral than my neighbors.
RALPH WAITE

Just as theater has to be where people live, actors have to go out in the marketplace - not be cut o...
RALPH WAITE

'The Waltons' was profoundly important after years of wandering around. I was 44 and cut off...
RALPH WAITE

The beauty of life is in people who feel some obligation to enhance life. Without that, we're on...
RALPH WAITE

I have vanity and greed enough for one person. But at the same time, I feel in my bones you lose a l...
RALPH WAITE

I was never taken to a play or concert or church. Yet I was a show-off, a dreamer, a storyteller.
RALPH WAITE

You only mature when you face problems you can't deal with.
RALPH WAITE

There is nothing like Ruth ever existed in this game of baseball. I remember we were playing the Whi...
WAITE HOYT

Joe Dugan, who was my roommate on the Yankees, was an honorary pallbearer, too. He was standing next...
WAITE HOYT

The first time that I ever saw Babe Ruth was in the Boston Red Sox clubhouse.
WAITE HOYT

You never really know baseball until you put on a pair of cleats and get out and play it; and if you...
WAITE HOYT

When I joined WKRC, they were very concerned over my ability to ad lib or speak extemporaneously, wh...
WAITE HOYT

I was so naive in radio technique that I knew nothing about timing. I would write pages on Honus Wag...
WAITE HOYT

I went in, and there, in the front room, a converted bedroom, sat the first radio I had ever seen. T...
WAITE HOYT

Freeing hostages is like putting up a stage set, which you do with the captors, agreeing on each pie...
TERRY WAITE

The terrible thing about terrorism is that ultimately it destroys those who practice it. Slowly but ...
TERRY WAITE

There are discounts on the per-user pricing from the second year onwards.
STEVE WAITE

People do move through there at a pretty good clip.
CHRIS WAITE

They didn't find anything that is wrong with the highway itself.
CHRIS WAITE

The systems we have out there are the safest for the traveling public.
CHRIS WAITE

I feel we're an even keel team this year. We've played all the tough teams from both sides (leagues)...
NATHAN WAITE

It is a very, very low potency heroin mixture. We don't anticipate it becoming a trend, but we are a...
ROGENE WAITE

Sometimes the wheels of justice grind slowly.
TERRY WAITE

He was so skinny that he looked like the people from Ethiopia.
CHARLOTTE WAITE

The two new features in Premium are enhanced compatibility for mobile applications and the introduct...
STEVE WAITE

They also filled the roles they needed to fill. I really feel like anybody can beat anybody.
NATHAN WAITE

Their parents are not being notified that they're even sick.
CHARLOTTE WAITE

That's what they put on everybody's.
CHARLOTTE WAITE

Some of the players from our indoor league could be chosen for the San Diego indoor team.
KATHY WAITE

I like the fact that there are no seniors, because it helps you prepare the younger players for the ...
KATHY WAITE

I think it's an excellent program. It keeps the kids in the game after their season is over.
KATHY WAITE

I know what it feels like now, I told him, as he congratulated me.
MICHAEL WAITE

One of the main reasons we've been successful is because of our balance. We have three or four peopl...
PETE WAITE

Who made the world I cannot tell; 'Tis made, and here am I in hell. My hand, though now my knuck...
A. E. HOUSMAN

And malt does more than Milton can to justify God's ways to man.
A. E. HOUSMAN

Nature, not content with denying him the ability to think, has endowed him with the ability to write...
A. E. HOUSMAN

Malt does more than Milton can to justify God's ways to man.
A. E. HOUSMAN

The laws of God, the laws of man he may keep that will and can; not I: let God and man decree laws f...
A. E. HOUSMAN

Here dead lie we because we did not choose to live and shame the land from which we sprung. Life, to...
A. E. HOUSMAN

If a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act.
A. E. HOUSMAN

That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, the happy highways where I went and cannot...
A. E. HOUSMAN

Experience has taught me, when I am shaving of a morning, to keep watch over my thoughts, because, i...
A. E. HOUSMAN

Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out... Perfect u...
A. E. HOUSMAN

The house of delusions is cheap to build but drafty to live in.
A. E. HOUSMAN

Great literature should do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sha...
A. E. HOUSMAN

We think of stars as celestial beings. And once in a while, they smile at us from the pages of '...
A. E. HOTCHNER

When I first wrote 'Papa Hemingway,' there were too many people still alive, and the lawyers...
A. E. HOTCHNER

Inward rest... gives an air of leisure to [Christ's] crowded life: above all, there is in this Man a...
A. E. WHITHAM

And malt does more than Milton can
To justify God's ways to man.
A. E. HOUSMAN

In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cun...
A. E. HOUSMAN

The troubles of our proud and angry dust are from eternity, and shall not fail. Bear them we can, an...
A. E. HOUSMAN

Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think.
A. E. HOUSMAN

Shoulder the sky, my lad, and drink your ale.
A. E. HOUSMAN

I find Cambridge an asylum, in every sense of the word.
A. E. HOUSMAN

The average man, if he meddles with criticism at all, is a conservative critic.
A. E. HOUSMAN

Mass production is for the masses.
E. A. FILENE

That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, the happy highways where I went and canno...
A. E. HOUSMAN

Who made the world I cannot tell;
'Tis made, and here am I in hell.
My hand, though now my k...
A. E. HOUSMAN

And then the clock collected in the tower / Its strength and struck.
A. E. HOUSMAN

And silence sounds no worse than cheers / After death has stopped the ears.
A. E. HOUSMAN

The fairies break their dances / And leave the printed lawn.
A. E. HOUSMAN

White in the moon the long road lies.
A. E. HOUSMAN

We for a certainty are not the first have sat in taverns while the tempest hurled their hopeful plan...
A. E. HOUSMAN

Now, of my threescore years and ten, / Twenty will not come again.
A. E. HOUSMAN

But men at whiles are sober / And think by fits and starts, / And if they think, they fasten / Their...
A. E. HOUSMAN

They carry back bright to the coiner the mintage of man, / The lads that will die in their glory and...
A. E. HOUSMAN

Lovers lying two by two / Ask not whom they sleep beside, / And the bridegroom all night through / N...
A. E. HOUSMAN

Made of earth and sea / His overcoat for ever, / And wears the turning globe.
A. E. HOUSMAN

Think no more; 'tis only thinking / Lays lads underground.
A. E. HOUSMAN

Into my heart an air that kills / From yon far country blows: / What are those blue remembered hills...
A. E. HOUSMAN

Oh, when I was in love with you, / Then I was clean and brave.
A. E. HOUSMAN

Here of a Sunday morning / My love and I would lie, / And see the coloured counties, / And hear the ...
A. E. HOUSMAN

Loveliest of trees, the cherry now / Is hung with bloom along the bough.
A. E. HOUSMAN

The Grizzly Bear is huge and wild; / He has devoured the infant child. / The infant child is not awa...
A. E. HOUSMAN

The rainy Pleiads wester, / Orion plunges prone, / The stroke of midnight ceases, / And I lie down a...
A. E. HOUSMAN

The goal stands up, the keeper / Stands up to keep the goal.
A. E. HOUSMAN

Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think.
A. E. HOUSMAN

About the woodlands I will go / To see the cherry hung with snow.
A. E. HOUSMAN

Tomorrow, more's the pity, / Away we both must hie, To air the ditty / and to earth I.
A. E. HOUSMAN

Cambridge has seen many strange sights. It has seen Wordsworth drunk, it has seen Porson sober. I am...
A. E. HOUSMAN

No change, though you lie under / The land you used to plough.
A. E. HOUSMAN

Mithridates, he died old.
A. E. HOUSMAN

Loveliest of trees, the cherry now Is hung with bloom along the bough, And stands about the woodland...
A. E. HOUSMAN

Clay lies still, but blood's a rover; / Breath's a ware that will not keep. / Up, lad; when the jour...
A. E. HOUSMAN

Through the harsh design of fate, Florida was dealt the unfortunate circumstances of bearing the bru...
GINNY BROWN-WAITE

For centuries, the world has heard the oppressed, the downtrodden and the vulnerable cry out for the...
GINNY BROWN-WAITE

American government was founded on a belief and a faith in God and in doing what is right and just.
GINNY BROWN-WAITE

On the other end of the spectrum, these women who do live long enough to collect Social Security fac...
GINNY BROWN-WAITE

When given the chance, women have proven they will participate in the electoral process.
GINNY BROWN-WAITE

Part of the redesign of FEMA is that they have so many people on standby, whether it is a retired nu...
GINNY BROWN-WAITE

I have noticed a marked improvement in FEMA and with the coordination of FEMA and the State agencies...
GINNY BROWN-WAITE

The newer homes did not sustain as much damage because they were built to better safety codes; they ...
GINNY BROWN-WAITE

While Kuwait is not a democracy, giving only half the population a voice in their government is not ...
GINNY BROWN-WAITE

As is the case with many Middle Eastern nations, women are nowhere near equal to men when it comes t...
GINNY BROWN-WAITE

The United Nations has come under the control of outlaw nations and self-serving special interest gr...
GINNY BROWN-WAITE

The United Nations is a mess, riddled with scandals. In fact, the U.N. itself is a scandal.
GINNY BROWN-WAITE

Under the current pay-as-you-go Social Security system, not one person is actually guaranteed benefi...
GINNY BROWN-WAITE

I had casually rented an apartment that cost $75 a month because I expected my writing to pay my way...
A. E. VAN VOGT

You have to remember that I was a bright but simple fellow from Canada who seldom, if ever, met anot...
A. E. VAN VOGT

The encouragement I got from Campbell was a quick check and praise. Once the Space Beagle was launch...
A. E. VAN VOGT

I first read science fiction in the old British Chum annual when I was about 12 years old.
A. E. VAN VOGT

It came about as follows: over the years when I was involved in dianetics, I wrote the beginnings of...
A. E. VAN VOGT

But, somewhere in there, I did have the thought that this really fits in with my thinking about what...
A. E. VAN VOGT

I figure that that has a ten year cycle. At the end of that ten years, I began to get worried that I...
A. E. VAN VOGT

Well, first of all, going off with dianetics was based upon a thought of mine.
A. E. VAN VOGT

In a sense, there's a great truth to that, but, also I was a great reader.
A. E. VAN VOGT

Recruiting Station was a story that came as the result of many anxious awakenings during many nights...
A. E. VAN VOGT

In those days I was new to covers; merely felt pleased that a story of mine had been honored. I late...
A. E. VAN VOGT

Chum was a British boy's weekly which, at the end of the year was bound into a single huge book;...
A. E. VAN VOGT

My theory was that what I had to do was make a study of human behavior.
A. E. VAN VOGT

I don't recall having any self-awareness about the intricacy of my stories.
A. E. VAN VOGT

How prone poor Humanity is to dam up the minutest remnants of its freedom, and build an artificial r...
E. T. A. HOFFMANN

In a sense, there's a great truth to that, but, also I was a great reader.
A. E. VAN VOGT

I wrote what interested me; and my method of working out my story through the dream process probably...
A. E. VAN VOGT

I figure that that has a ten year cycle. At the end of that ten years, I began to get worried that I...
A. E. VAN VOGT

I don't recall having any self-awareness about the intricacy of my stories.
A. E. VAN VOGT

I did not go along with the new theories that Hubbard was offering. They had a religious aspect and ...
A. E. VAN VOGT

Chum was a British boy's weekly which, at the end of the year was bound into a single huge book; and...
A. E. VAN VOGT

As a craftsman, I made my living at writing from the moment I crossed the line at age 20, and sold m...
A. E. VAN VOGT

It's difficult for me to feel that a solid page without the breakups of paragraphs can be intere...
A. E. VAN VOGT

Because the issues debated at the convention were very contentious and very divisive, it's easy to i...
A. E. DICK HOWARD

In many ways, the U.S. Supreme Court remains the paradigm.
A. E. DICK HOWARD

We're talking about a constitution that is in its third century. That's really quite remarkable amon...
A. E. DICK HOWARD

Once you are dancing with the devil, the prettiest capers won't help you.
E. T. A. HOFFMANN

Not a single man on earth knows from his own experience the how and where of his birth, only from tr...
E. T. A. HOFFMANN

You are not meant to serve time. Time is meant to serve you. Become the master of your now
E'YEN A. GARDNER

To express yourself in a creative way you don't need structure you need an empty mind.
E'YEN A. GARDNER

The life that I have lived was no more than a mask covering the real me. What has happened was not t...
E'YEN A. GARDNER

Oneness with God is not a dream, it is the only reality. Everything else is an illusion.
E'YEN A. GARDNER

Life is simple, just be yourself.
E'YEN A. GARDNER

Come out of hiding, don't be afraid to be yourself.
E'YEN A. GARDNER

When we know Love, fear has no value in our presence. There is no pressure to perform and mask our h...
E'YEN A. GARDNER

However, if we don’t confront the seed of lies, it gives place for them to take root in us and we ...
E'YEN A. GARDNER

If there is no door to your dream, create one.
E'YEN A. GARDNER

Patience is learned through waiting
E'YEN A. GARDNER

I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
E. E. CUMMINGS

To destroy is always the first step in any creation.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Nothing recedes like progress.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Unbeing dead isn't being alive.
E. E. CUMMINGS

I like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more...
E. E. CUMMINGS

Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.
E. E. CUMMINGS

I imagine that yes is the only living thing.
E. E. CUMMINGS

At least the Pilgrim Fathers used to shoot Indians: the Pilgrim Children merely punch time clocks.
E. E. CUMMINGS

I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.
E. E. CUMMINGS

It takes three to make a child.
E. E. CUMMINGS

The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Be of love a little more careful than of anything.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Listen; there's a hell of a good universe next door: let's go.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Here is little Effie's head. Her brains are made of gingerbread. When the judgement day comes, God w...
E E CUMMINGS

Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.
E E CUMMINGS

It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are.
E E CUMMINGS

He without fear is king of the world.
E. E. EDDISON

America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: Amer...
E. E. CUMMINGS

Unbeing dead isn't being alive.
E. E. CUMMINGS

To be nobody but yourself in a world that's doing its best to make you somebody else, is to fight th...
E. E. CUMMINGS

To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't whi...
E E CUMMINGS

Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.
E. E. CUMMINGS

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.
E. E. CUMMINGS

America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: Amer...
E. E. CUMMINGS

Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience ...
E. E. CUMMINGS

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody e...
E. E. CUMMINGS

A wind has blown the rain away and blown the sky away and all the leaves away, and the trees stand. ...
E. E. CUMMINGS

I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blu...
E. E. CUMMINGS

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
E. E. CUMMINGS

A politician is an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Private property began the instant somebody had a mind of his own.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Palm Sunday In the person of Christ, the formidable law of God, which by itself appalls us by its...
E. E. JENKINS

To destroy is always the first step in any creation.
E E CUMMINGS

The only man, woman, or child who ever wrote a simple declarative sentence with seven grammatical er...
E E CUMMINGS

To be nobody-but-yourself -- in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybod...
E E CUMMINGS

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you like everybod...
E E CUMMINGS

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
E E CUMMINGS

Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience ...
E E CUMMINGS

Listen; there's a hell of a good universe next door: let's go.
E E CUMMINGS

Life's not a paragraph And death i think is no parenthesis
E E CUMMINGS

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
E E CUMMINGS

I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
E E CUMMINGS

(i do not know what it is about you that closes
and opens; only something in me understands
...
E E CUMMINGS

I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
E. E. CUMMINGS

It is with roses and locomotives (not to mention acrobats Spring electricity Coney Island the 4th of...
E. E. CUMMINGS

To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn&#...
E. E. CUMMINGS

who knows if the moon's / a balloon, coming out of a keen city / in the sky - filled with pretty peo...
E. E. CUMMINGS

for whatever we lose (like a you or a me) / it's always ourselves we find in the sea
E. E. CUMMINGS

The earth laughs in flowers.
E. E. CUMMINGS

The Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls are unbeautiful and have comfortable minds.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear; the strength so strong...
E. E. CUMMINGS

To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't whi...
E. E. CUMMINGS

I would rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.
E. E. CUMMINGS

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody e...
E. E. CUMMINGS

Here is the deepest secret nobody knows.Here is the root of the root and the bud of the budAnd the s...
E. E. CUMMINGS

"maggie and millie and molly and may"maggie and millie and molly and maywent down to the beach (to p...
E. E. CUMMINGS

Now, occultism is not like mystic faculty, and it very seldom works in harmony either with business aptitude in the things of ordinary life or with a knowledge of the canons of evidence in its own sphere.

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Now, occultism is not like mystic faculty, and it very seldom works in harmony either with business aptitude in the things of ordinary life or with a knowledge of the canons of evidence in its own sphere.

A. E. Waite

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