(66 quotes found)
“A place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively, wrenches it from itself, shapes it, renders it, loves it so radically that he remakes it in his own image.”
Joan Didion
“We should render a service to a friend to bind him closer to us, and to an enemy in order to make a friend of him”
Cleobulus
“It pains me physically to see a woman victimized, rendered pathetic, by fashion.”
Yves Saint Laurent
“You must intensify and render continuous by repeatedly presenting with suggestive ideas and mental pictures of the feast of good things, and the flowing fountain, which awaits the successful achievement or attainment of the desires.”
Claude M. Bristol
“False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.”
Charles de Montesquieu
“Demosthenes overcame and rendered more distinct his inarticulate and stammering pronunciation by speaking with pebbles in his mouth”
Plutarch
“One can measure the importance of a scientific work by the number of earlier publications rendered superfluous by it.”
David Hilbert
“Some people wish above all to conform to the rules, I wish only to render what I can hear. There is no theory. You have only to listen. Pleasure is the law.”
Claude Debussy
“For among other evils caused by being disarmed, it renders you contemptible; which is one of those disgraceful things which a prince must guard against”
Niccolo Machiavelli
“My function in life was to render clear what was already blindingly conspicuous”
Bible
