#converse

Scientists do stand on the shoulders of giants, just as do writers. Conversely, in the arts we do make discoveries. We do refine our tools. So I am arguing with, or at least playing with, the idea that art never improves. ↗

— Ian Mcewan

#arguing #art #arts #conversely #discoveries

It cannot be assumed that equity was following common law whenever they agreed, any more than the converse. ↗

— Frederick Pollock

#any #assumed #cannot #common #common law

In fact, the converse is true: At a time when the United States has been called on for a level of moral leadership, vision and inspiration not seen since World War II, we cannot afford to dissemble about crimes against humanity. ↗

— Adam Schiff

#afford #against #been #called #cannot

In some European theaters, it's still not uncommon to have a late start and three LONG intermissions, because people actually eat and drink and converse during the intermissions. ↗

— Joe Bob Briggs

#because #converse #drink #during #eat

When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#able #age #ask #believe #converse

If every call to Christ and His righteousness is a call to suffering, the converse is equally - every call to suffering is a call to Christ, a promotion, an invitation to come up higher. ↗

— Charles Bent

#christ #come #converse #equally #every

Of the many forms of false culture, a premature converse with abstractions is perhaps the most likely to prove fatal to the growth of a masculine vigour of intellect. ↗

— George Boole

#culture #false #fatal #forms #growth

A king is always a king - and a woman always a woman: his authority and her sex ever stand between them and rational converse. ↗

— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

#authority #between #converse #ever #her

The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#husband #lover #man #silent

Converse with men makes sharp the glittering wit, but God to man doth speak in solitude. ↗

— John Stuart Blackie

#doth #glittering #god #makes #man