I think that at that time none of us quite believed in the Time Machine. The fact is, the Time Traveler was one of those men who are too clever to be believed: you never felt that you saw all round him; you always suspected some subtle reserve, some ...
The central feature of the practice of meditation and hard work known as Zen is that, as Matthiessen says, it “has no patience with mysticism, far less the occult.” Nor does it have any time with moralism, the prescriptions or distortions we woul...
...the essence of gospel-humility is not thinking more of myself or thinking less of myself, it is thinking of myself less.
Turkey wants a policy of engagement exactly like President Obama's new approach. Policy of engagement, less confrontation, less tense attitude, especially in the region.
Actually, I was more or less determined to be a theoretical physicist at the age of thirteen.
Though the Jazz Age continued it became less and less an affair of youth. The sequel was like a children's party taken over by the elders.
I'm fascinated by how Hollywood has changed since I started. Today it's about immediate delivery. There's less risk and less art.
As I've gotten less righteous, less pedagogic, I have become more loving of the artificiality, the art form, the imitation of life in film.
We have more and more ways to communicate, as Thoreau noted, but less and less to say.
My decision to be a scientist was a bit of a drift really, more or less by default.
Americans are from Mars, Europeans are from Venus: they agree on little and understand each other less and less.
All I know is that as an audience member, I am less and less inclined to go to the theater.
An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less until he knows absolutely everything about nothing.
I'd rather have less time than I think, than less think than I have time.
Life is more or less a lie, but then again, that's exactly the way we want it to be.
I hate to say it, but the older you get, you really do have to cut down on the amount you eat. Less food and less portions.
People with a sense of humor tend to be less egocentric and more realistic in their view of the world and more humble in moments of success and less defeated in times of travail.
Doing a movie about computers between 1978 and 1982? You can't get much less sexy, less active than that.
Pray to God that your attachment to such transitory things as wealth, name, and creature comforts may become less and less every day.
I definitely feel we're moving forward. There's a lot more understanding... there's less fear and we're working on there being less hatred.
The evolution of playground equipment has been to this ever safer, less challenging, less interesting assemblies of equipment.
