#affords

The pursuit of beauty is much more dangerous nonsense than the pursuit of truth or goodness, because it affords a stronger temptation to the ego. ↗

— Northrop Frye

#beauty #because #dangerous #ego #goodness

Liberalism is a religion. Its tenets cannot be proved, its capacity for waste and destruction demonstrated. But it affords a feeling of spiritual rectitude at little or no cost. ↗

— David Mamet

#cannot #capacity #cost #demonstrated #destruction

How large and varied is the educational bill of fare set before every young gentleman in Great Britain; and to judge by the mental stamina it affords him in most cases, what a waste of good food it is! ↗

— James Payn

#before #bill #britain #cases #educational

No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#conviction #hopes #human #library #more

Of all the tyrants the world affords, our own affections are the fiercest lords. ↗

— John Sterling

#affords #fiercest #lords #our #own

Whatever your image is, it's probably not you, but it affords you the freedom to live up to it. ↗

— Macy Gray

#freedom #image #live #probably #up

All we can do is play ball. Every time we go out on the field, we do what we do in America - live in the freedom that our country affords us. ↗

— Tim Salmon

#america #ball #country #every #every time

Clarity affords focus. ↗

— Thomas Leonard

#affords #clarity #focus

I am racing to the studio the moment that God affords me the opportunity to hear again. ↗

— Foxy Brown

#again #am #god #hear #i