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I saw—with shut eyes, but acute mental vision—I saw the pale student of unhallowed arts kneeling beside the thing he had put together. I saw the hideous phantasm of a man stretched out, and then, on the working of some powerful engine, show signs of life and stir with an uneasy, half-vital motion. Frightful must it be, for supremely frightful would be the effect of any human endeavor to mock the stupendous mechanism of the Creator of the world.

– Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyRate it:

I say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.

– Henry David ThoreauRate it:

I say statecraft is soulcraft. Just as all education is moral education because learning conditions conduct, most legislation is moral legislations because it conditions the action and the thought of the nation in broad and important spheres in life.

– George WillRate it:

I say that a man must be certain of his morality for the simple reason that he has to suffer for it.

– G. K. ChestertonRate it:

I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences.

– Walt WhitmanRate it:

I say that good painters imitated nature but that bad ones vomited it.

– Miguel de CervantesRate it:

I say that good painters imitated nature; but that bad ones vomited it.

– Miguel de Cervantes, Exemplary Novels (1613)Rate it:

I say that virtue is more valuable than wealth to the same degree that eyes are more valuable than fingernails.

– Marcus AureliusRate it:

I say that whoever reads this is an ass!

– Peter CooperRate it:

I say, thou mad March hare.

– John SkeltonRate it:

I searched for God and found only myself. I searched for myself and found only God.

– Sufi ProverbRate it:

I see a shooting star, though I need not make a wish, for The Cosmos knows already what I want for the world and All peoples; for them to see The Cosmos in wonderment as I do.

– CometanRate it:

I see America, not in the setting sun of a black night of despair ahead of us, I see America in the crimson light of a rising sun fresh from the burning, creative hand of God. I see great days ahead, great days possible to men and women of will and vision.

– Carl SandburgRate it:

I see Christ's love is so kingly, that it will not abide a marrow it must have a throne all alone in the soul.

– Samual RutherfordRate it:

I see every task as a battle and fight every battle as a last hope to survive.so when I see back I never fail to win..

– V V ANILRate it:

I see foreboding and foreshadowing... Sunrise to sunset in your eyes.

– A.E. SamaanRate it:

I see God in every human being.

– Mother TeresaRate it:

I see great things in baseball. It's our game--the American game. It will take our people out-of-doors, fill them with oxygen, give them a larger physical stoicism. Tend to relieve us from being a nervous, dyspeptic set. Repair these losses, and be a blessing to us.

– Walt WhitmanRate it:

I see heaven's glories shine and faith shines equal...

– Emily BrontëRate it:

I see her not dispirited, not weak, but well, remembering that she has seen dark times before, indeed with a kind of instinct that she sees a little better in a cloudy day.

– Ralph Waldo EmersonRate it:

I see in industrialization the central problem of building in our time. If we succeed in carrying out this industrialization, the social, economic, technical, and also artistic problems will be readily solved.

– Ludwig Mies van der RoheRate it:

I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. . . . Corporations have been enthroned, an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money-power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until the wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed.

– Unknown, Often attributed to Abraham LincolnRate it:

I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country; corporations have been enthroned, an era of corruption in High Places will follow, and the Money Power of the Country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the People, until the wealth is aggregated in a few hands, and the Republic is destroyed. I feel at this moment more anxiety for the safety of my country than ever before, even in the midst of war.

– Abraham LincolnRate it:

I see knowledge increasing and human power increasing. I see ever-increasing possibilities before life, And I see no limits set to it at all, Existence impresses me as a perpetual dawn. Our lives, as I apprehend, are great in expectations.

– H. G. WellsRate it:

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