#prop

The truth, the absolute truth, is that the chief beauty for the theatre consists in fine bodily proportions. ↗

— Sarah Bernhardt

#absolute truth #beauty #bodily #chief #consists

The bureaucracy is not great. I don't think Rick Santorum who is not one for being a big proponent of large bureaucracies would be as enthusiastic a supporter of it. ↗

— Harold Ford

#big #big proponent #bureaucracies #bureaucracy #enthusiastic

Television should be kept in its proper place - beside us, before us, but never between us and the larger life. ↗

— Robert Fraser

#beside #between #kept #larger #life

To swallow and follow, whether old doctrine or new propaganda, is a weakness still dominating the human mind. ↗

— Charlotte Perkins Gilman

#dominating #follow #human #human mind #mind

It is proper that the federal government help alleviate short-term disruptions and price spikes such as those brought about by Hurricane Katrina. ↗

— Mel Martinez

#alleviate #brought #disruptions #federal #federal government

The universal principle of etymology in all languages: words are carried over from bodies and from the properties of bodies to express the things of the mind and spirit. The order of ideas must follow the order of things. ↗

— Giambattista Vico

#carried #express #follow #ideas #languages

The questions of philosophy proper are human desires and fears and aspirations - human emotions - taking an intellectual form. ↗

— Chauncey Wright

#desires #emotions #fears #form #human

I ask you to pass through life at my side—to be my second self, and best earthly companion. ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#life

Liberty is the proper end and object of authority, and cannot subsist without it; and it is liberty to that which is good, just, and honest. ↗

— John Winthrop

#cannot #end #good #honest #just

The joy we get as actors is out of transforming ourselves into something that's not necessarily anything true to ourselves. And it's a power - not being yourself, and being in the role; it's just like another prop. ↗

— Reese Witherspoon

#anything #being #being yourself #get #into