Laurence Sterne
Related I can manage a prose format as long as I keep closer to Laurence Sterne than to Henry James. DAVID ANTIN ELISABETH ELLIOT GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG BOOTH TARKINGTON BOOTH TARKINGTON I have often endeavoured to view the circulation of the blood in terrestrial animals, but without su... ANTONIE VAN LEEUWENHOEK ALBERT CAMUS THOMAS CARLYLE JAMES FENIMORE COOPER America owes most of its social prejudices to the exaggerated religious opinions of the different se... JAMES F. COOPER CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS BEN CARSON THOMAS JEFFERSON VOLTAIRE VOLTAIRE HERMANN HESSE J. R. R. TOLKIEN J.R.R. TOLKIEN J.R.R. TOLKIEN ANDRé GIDE DEYTH BANGER ANTON CHEKHOV Certainly human culture may have achieved great progress in the course of history. Suffering and unh... ZENKEI SHIBAYAMA A great many things have been pronounced untrue and absurd, and even impossible, by the highest auth... CATHERINE CROWE A great many things have been pronounced untrue and absurd, and even impossible, by the highest auth... CATHERINE CROWE FRANK ZAPPA FRANK ZAPPA LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG I figure there are a few actors like Marlon Brando, George C. Scott and Laurence Olivier who have be... JOHN FORSYTHE You have dreamed too well, O wise archdreamer, for you have drawn dream's gods away from the world o... JOHN STUART MILL There is not anything I know which hath done more mischief to Religion... than the disparaging of Re... JOSEPH GLANVILL There has been no talk whatsoever [from teammates offering support] and there has been no need to be... BARRY HALL GEORGE GORDON BYRON We're hearing that a lot of people have been affected by the hurricanes, and have had to go into the... JOYCE ROGERS SABINE BARING-GOULD By our form of government, the Christian religion is the established religion; and all sects and den... SAMUEL CHASE ANDREA DWORKIN There are opinions, no way that our natural gas industry do not support the growth and development o... INDUSTRY MINISTER FAHMI IDRIS DALE CARNEGIE DALE CARNEGIE My work is drawn to the political but avoids an agenda. There is no inherent critique or support. TARYN SIMON LJUPKA CVETANOVA CARLOS RUIZ ZAFóN C.G. JUNG I have met many Masters and most have an abundance of flaws and social failings. However, the one th... GARY HOPKINS LATIKA TEOTIA That’s not fair!JOHN M SHEEHAN NICK CATRICALA IAN MCKELLEN EUGENE PETERSON BRENNAN MANNING No doubt one may quote history to support any cause, as the devil quotes scripture. LEARNED HAND Don't do it, because you have to do it.
Do it, because you love to do it. PRITISH PATTANAIK JEFFREY FRY The challenges are there, but there has not been a proven commitment from the administration that wh... ELLEN GORDON The saying,"take up your cross & follow him," is best described in religious circles,because most re... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA I want the kids to have their own opinions and be able to support it. They need to think critically.... ALISHA VALENZUELA GEORGE MACDONALD ERNEST HEMINGWAY Christians . . . ought not to be threatened by fantasy and imagination. Great painting is not "photo... FRANCIS A. SCHAEFFER TERTULLIAN H.P. LOVECRAFT There have been a series of fires that appear to have some similarity. However, we have not made the... HOWARD HILL We are grateful for those who have shared their testimonies. As students, we have to look to see if ... CHRIS GIOVARELLI ALIA BHATT There have been no reports from the field to indicate that any have been casualties, ANGELO REYES O, the sheer magnificence of words that come together like waves upon a beach, each telling its own ... JOHN M SHEEHAN QUEEN ELIZABETH II However, I am willing to hear what you can produce from Scripture in favor of any kind of slavery. SAMUEL HOPKINS There is no danger: he is suffering from drowsiness, that disease which attacks so many minds which ... BOETHIUS JAMES H. ROBINSON C. JOYBELL C. Destiny consist in the moments that we experienced, and not in the choices we have to do. DANIEL MELGAçO Next generations will not know what is to have childhood. DANIEL MELGAçO Jewish studies has now moved from its traditional place in Catholic institutions, which is a minor p... DWAYNE CARPENTER ...whenever it is necessary that one of several conflicting opinions should prevail and when one wou... F.A. HAYEK RICHARD WAGNER GREG GORDON Don't let any one show you the ropes to the world because usually it will be in the shape of a noose... ANDONI GARCIA We are usually not that different from the people we mock or demonize. No really, go ahead and compa... BRANDON CHRISTOPHER There have been no comments from the neighbors. ALAN LUCKEN OLIVER GOLDSMITH There is no greater excitement than to support an intellectual wife and have her support you. Marria... DAVID GIBBS There is no greater excitement than to support an intellectual wife and have her support you. Marria... MILLICENT CAREY MCINTOSH SAMUEL JOHNSON It's no surprise that more small business owners enjoy being their own boss. It gives them control o... LAURIE MCCABE On the other hand, we have in Israel, an Israeli government which has been elected by the Israeli pe... RAFIK HARIRI URSULA K. LEGUIN BRIAN LITTRELL There is no condition so severe that you cannot reverse itMARY ANN HICKMAN It's a situation where there are considered opinions -- good, scientific opinions -- that have value... HARRY REYNOLDS There has been an outpouring of support from the community. We have received checks from people we d... CINDY HAMBORSKY JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL DANIEL H. PINK My art springs from my desire to have things in the world which would otherwise never be there. CARL ANDRE As in biomedical science, pioneering industrial inventions have not been mothered by necessity. Rath... ARTHUR KORNBERG SUNDAY ADELAJA
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There is no such thing as Christian work. That is, there is no work in the world which is, in and of... 
Judge men not by their opinions, but by what their opinions have made of them. 
Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions 
Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions. 
The world in which we were called to exist was an absurd world, and there was no other in which we c... 
We have oftener than once endeavoured to attach some meaning to
that aphorism, vulgarly imputed to ... 
America owes most of its social prejudices to the exaggerated religious opinions of the different se... 
It is certain, that, in every religion, however sublime the verbal definition which it gives of its ... 
Illogical thinkers throw names and slurs around because they have no arguments with which to rebut t... 
When we see religion split into so many thousand of sects, and I may say Christianity itself divided... 
There are no sects in geometry 
There is nothing to opinions, they
Some who have read the book, or at any rate have reviewed it, have found it boring, absurd, or conte... 
Some who have read the book, or at any rate have reviewed it, have found it boring, absurd, or conte... 
Some who have read the book, or at any rate have reviewed it, have found it boring, absurd, or conte... 
We prefer to go deformed and distorted all our lives rather than not resemble the portrait of oursel... 
You can't deal with being odd?
There are a great many opinions in this world, and a good half of them are professed by people who h... 
Fact of the matter is, there is no hip world, there is no straight world. There's a world, you see, ... 
My great comfort is, that the temporary celebrity I have wrung from the world has been in the very t... 
Man is a gregarious animal and much more so in his mind than in his body. A golden rule; judge men n... 
Stupidity is much the same all the world over. A stupid person's notions and feelings may confidentl... 
My great comfort is, that the temporary celebrity I have wrung from the world has been in the very t... 
Mediaeval mythology, rich and gorgeous, is a compound like Corinthian brass, into which many pure or... 
Men have defined the parameters of every subject. All feminist arguments, however radical in intent ... 
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying w... 
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying ... 
Not everyone has the time to be normal. 
There are two things in life you cannot choose. The first is your enemies; the second your family. S... 
There is no coming to consciousness without pain. People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in ... 
You are strong and you know it. Even when you are faced with problems, all you have to do is look wi... 
As I live life, I believe that the highest value I, and anyone who is ready, able and willing, is to... 
There are some tremendous actors in the U.K. who have been knighted, and I've spent much of my l... 
I often found myself prefering the company of people outside my congregation, men and women who did ... 
Christianity happens when men and women accept with unwavering trust that their sins have been not o... 
To learn, sometimes you have to feel the fool. 
Many marriages would have been laid to rest a long time ago, if they were not on a life-support mach... 
As no scripture is of private interpretation, so is there no feeling in a human heart which exists i... 
I thought you'd be interested in these things as a government man. Ain't you mixed up in the prices ... 
Arguments about Scripture achieve nothing but a stomachache and a headache. 
I have seen beyond the bounds of infinity and drawn down daemons from the stars. . . . I have harnes... 
Why should I crowd the world with my opinions? Live and let live. That's it. Let people have the... 
I have been aware all the time that my peoples, spread far and wide throughout every continent and o... 
We have unprecedented conditions to deal with and novel adjustments to make -- there can be no doubt... 
People can have their opinions about everything in the world, but people's opinions end where the ti... 
How absurd these critics must seem to me, who in their modern wantonness have become so ingenious. T... 
Many fall into the trap of championing the exact theology of a saint from the past, which can have e... 
There is nothing so absurd or ridiculous that has not at some time been said by some philosopher. 
The majority have no other reason for their opinions than that they are the fashion. 
The story - from Rumplestiltskin to War and Peace - is one of the basic tools invented by the human ... 
The fact is, they have to do their job. I may not support the war, but I support them no matter what... 
There is no work of genius which has not been the delight of mankind, no word of genius to which the... 
There's an idea out there that salespeople have actually been obliterated by the Internet, which... 
Christians have the chance to become wealthy with the information, which has been gathered by people... 
The desire of knowledge, like the thirst for riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it. 
When men grow virtuous in their old age they are merely making a
sacrifice to God of the devil's le... 
Look into the world 
Two more years were to go by before I knew anything about William Blake. Many years later, when his ... 
I've played a lot of bad guys, 'cause that was the only work I could get. People saw my face and wen... 
If you're not sure where you're going, you'll probably end up somewhere else. 
The difference between a helping hand and an outstretched palm is a twist of the wrist. 
If nature had arranged that husbands and wives should have children alternatively, there would never... 
The office of drama is to exercise, possibly to exhaust, human emotions. The purpose of comedy is to... 
I believe that in a great city, or even in a small city or a village, a great theater is the outward... 
I should be soaring away with my head tilted slightly toward the gods, feeding on the caviar of Shak... 
I had never thought of myself as a dramatist, and, for really good technical results, the thought ca... 
I think of myself as being a relatively intelligent man who is open to a lot of different things and... 
It's something he learned as a bodybuilder. You get up on stage and twist and turn your body to alwa... 
It began to turn against him, because his opponents were very, very shrewd and calculating in the wa... 
Special effects are characters. Special effects are essential elements. Just because you can't s...