Elucidations Quotes

#1. People with theories of life are, perhaps, the most relentless of their kind, for no time or place is sacred from their devastating elucidations.

Agnes Repplier

#2. Philosophy aims at the logical clarification of thoughts. Philosophy is not a body of doctrine but an activity. A philosophical work consists essentially of elucidations.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

#3. Just because someone doesn't give you what you deserve, that doesn't mean you should automatically settle for less.

A.J. Nuest

#4. So to me, Texas Hold 'em puts me to sleep. At least when you play stud, you can be funny as you deal. Somebody some day is going to come up with a Stud show that's going to work.

Joseph Bologna

#5. History is a tragedy, not a morality tale.

I. F. Stone

#6. Smiley was the oddest. You thought, to look at him, that he couldn't cross the road alone, but you might as well have offered protection to a hedgehog.

John Le Carre

#7. The measure of a man is what he does with power.

Plato

#8. Like in the paintings, there has to be moments that are completely right to be able to feel how wrong it is when the space gets flattened or the space collapses. It's the same with the technique in the sculptures: for some to feel really wrong, you have to have parts be really right.

Francesca DiMattio

#9. If we want to DRAMATICALLY impact the world for the better than we need our hearts and minds to be DRAMATICALLY impacted by God's Word.

Jayce O'Neal

#10. My goal as an actor was to work - to be a working actor, whether it was in theater, and, well, I didn't even consider film and television when I was in New York, but what came along, came along.

Stephen Root

#11. In writing, as in life, its not the big words that are the problem its the little minds that read them.

Rassool Jibraeel Snyman

#12. Temperament, you'll find, is highly dependent on time of day, weather, frequency of naps, and whether one has had enough to eat.

Catherynne M Valente