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Clarity affords focus. -- Thomas Leonard
This sight... is by far the noblest astronomy affords. -- Edmond Halley
Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality. -- Albert Schweitzer
The meaning or value of a thing consists of what it affords. -- James J. Gibson
Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness, which this world affords. -- William Samuel Johnson
No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library. -- Samuel Johnson
The sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it; enthusiasm signifies God in us. -- Madame de Stael
Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him. -- Henry David Thoreau
Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else. -- Jose Ortega y Gasset
Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified. -- Samuel Johnson
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
I can only go places because I know that I can go away from them, if that makes sense. I like the gypsy lifestyle that filming affords. -- Rupert Friend
Ay, rail at gaming - 'tis a rich topic, and affords noble declamation. Go, preach against it in the city - you'll find a congregation in every tavern. -- Edward Moore
It affords me sincere pleasure to be able to apprise you of the entire removal of the Cherokee Nation of Indians to their new homes west of the Mississippi. -- Martin Van Buren
Entrepreneurs, by disposition, are built to think big. When a role no longer affords those opportunities, it might be best to leave it in capable hands and move on. -- Ryan Holmes
As for Twitter, I've found that you have to learn how to make it add value rather than subtract hours from one's day. Certainly, it affords narcissism and distraction. -- Howard Rheingold
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
To those who have chosen the profession of medicine, a knowledge of chemistry, and of some branches of natural history, and, indeed, of several other departments of science, affords useful assistance. -- Charles Babbage
Blessed is the man who has some congenial work, some occupation in which he can put his heart, and which affords a complete outlet to all the forces there are in him. -- John Burroughs
The concept of romantic love affords a means of emotional manipulation which the male is free to exploit, since love is the only circumstance in which the female is (ideologically) pardoned for sexual activity. -- Kate Millett
Every role affords me something different in the way of understanding, and that's really why you take these roles, not to show that thing that people talk about of showing what you can do - that has nothing to do with anything. -- Phylicia Rashad
The necessity of every one paying in his own labor for what he consumes, affords the only legitimate and effectual check to excessive luxury, which has so often ruined individuals, states and empires; and which has now brought almost universal bankruptcy upon us. -- Josiah Warren
I promised myself that I would write as well as I can, tell the truth, not to tell everything I know, but to make sure that everything I tell is true, as I understand it. And to use the eloquence which my language affords me. -- Maya Angelou
During most of my life, my contact with Jews and Judaism was slight. I gave little thought to their problems, save in asking myself, from time to time, whether we were showing by our lives due appreciation of the opportunities which this hospitable country affords. My approach to Zionism was through Americanism. -- Louis D. Brandeis
You see movie stars advertising all sorts of things today for whatever reason. And it may be that it affords them the luxury to do smaller movies or to go and do a play. Because, otherwise, you have to keep doing movies where you get paid millions and millions of dollars to maintain a certain lifestyle. -- Orlando Bloom
You have to figure out what's important and keep the main points, though I will swing a little outside the box. It affords me the freedom to find out who the character is, and it's been a positive technique for me. I'm not saying everyone should change words, but if you can do it with confidence, you may nail it. -- Dawn Olivieri
Mastery of language affords remarkable power. -- Frantz Fanon
What sweet delight a quiet life affords. -- William Drummond
A thing seriously pursued affords true enjoyment. -- Seneca the Younger
Mastery of language affords one remarkable opportunities. -- Alexandre Dumas
Language upon a silvered tongue affords enchantment enough. -- Salman Rushdie
Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties. -- Samuel Johnson
Success has no idle hands; affords no legs at rest. -- Johnnie Dent Jr.
Play is the most natural method of self-healing that childhood affords. -- Erik Erikson
Aggressive fighting for the right is the noblest sport the world affords. -- Theodore Roosevelt
Confrontation affords you the opportunity to hear the other side of the story. -- Sunday Adelaja
Heaven is large, and affords space for all modes of love and fortitude. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We should constantly use the most common, little, easy words which our language affords. -- John Wesley
Our ability to measure and apportion time affords an almost endless source of comfort. -- Richard Yates
Of all the tyrants the world affords, our own affections are the fiercest lords. -- John Sterling
To be engaged in opposing wrong affords but a slender guarantee for being right. -- William E. Gladstone
Where there are no distinctions there can be no superiority; perfect equality affords no temptation. -- Thomas Paine
Life affords no greater responsibility, no greater privilege, than the raising of the next generation -- C. Everett Koop
Is not the most erotic part of the body wherever the clothing affords a glimpse? -- Roland Barthes
However deep you dig a well it affords no refuge in the time of flood. -- Ernest Bramah
The fineness which a hymn or psalm affords / If when the soul unto the lines accords. -- George Herbert
Sometimes life is merely a matter of coffee and whatever intimacy a cup of coffee affords. -- Richard Brautigan
The river route is certainly preferable, as it affords good grazing and an abundance of water. -- William Whipple
My job affords me the luxury of having help. I don't feel exhausted, I feel lucky. -- Kelly Ripa
The ideal hole (course) is surely one that affords the greatest pleasure to the greatest number. -- Alister MacKenzie
The rewards of art are not always commensurate with its quality. It affords a precarious living. -- Walter J. Phillips
While just government protects all in their religious rites, true religion affords government its surest support. -- George Washington
democracy is that which affords a rule of living as well as a test of faith. -- Jane Addams
There is a luxury in self-dispraise; And inward self-disparagement affords To meditative spleen a grateful feast. -- William Wordsworth
I am racing to the studio the moment that God affords me the opportunity to hear again. -- Foxy Brown
That kind of life is most happy which affords us most opportunities of gaining our own esteem. -- Samuel Johnson
A certain degree of preparation for war . . . affords also the best security for the continuance of peace. -- James Madison
Time affords us the ability to blame past errors on others while whole heartedly pronouncing our futures successes. -- Douglas Adams
That good sense which nature affords us is preferable to most of the knowledge that we can acquire. -- Philippe de Commines
The normal objective of my thought affords no insight into the dark places of human will and feeling. -- Albert Einstein
We praise or blame as one or the other affords more opportunity for exhibiting our power of judgement. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
The language of faith is crucial because it affords human beings the privilege of intimacy with the ultimate. -- Michael Eric Dyson
Art supplies constantly to contemplation what nature seldom affords in concrete experience - the union of life and peace. -- George Santayana
It seems that immigrants often have a special understanding of the incredible opportunities that this nation affords its citizens. -- Jon Kyl
Whatever your image is, it's probably not you, but it affords you the freedom to live up to it. -- Macy Gray
The condition of women affords in all countries the best criterion by which to judge the character of men. -- Frances Wright
The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man -- T. S. Eliot
Since all people are in the image of God, all deserve to be treated with the dignity the image affords. -- John H. Walton
Poetry affords us a respite in which we may gather renewed strength for the old struggle to adapt ourselves to reality. -- Robert Haven Schauffler
I oppose any attempt to grant homosexual unions the same legal privileges that civil government affords to traditional marriage and family life. -- Todd Akin
Every word affords me pain. Yet how sweet it would be if I could hear what the flowers have to say about death! -- Emile M. Cioran
There is a peculiar pleasure in riding out into the unknown. A pleasure which no second journey on the same trail ever affords. -- Edith Durham
Marriage is the only thing that affords a woman the pleasure of company and the perfect sensation of solitude at the same time. -- Helen Rowland
Our home joys are the most delightful earth affords, and the joy of parents in their children is the most holy joy of humanity. -- Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi
Imitation pleases, because it affords matter for inquiring into the truth or falsehood of imitation, by comparing its likeness or unlikeness with the original. -- John Dryden
The luxury of ostentation affords a much less substantial and solid gratification, than the luxury of comfort, if I may be allowed the expression. -- Jean-Baptiste Say
Solitude bears the same relation to the mind that sleep does to the body. It affords it the necessary opportunities for repose and recovery. -- William Gilmore Simms
Love is an incurable malady like those pathetic states in which rheumatism affords the sufferer a brief respite only to be replaced by epileptiform headaches. -- Marcel Proust
The first reading of a Will, where a person dies worth anything considerable, generally affords a true test of the relations' love to the deceased. -- Samuel Richardson
The present hour is always wealthiest when it is poorer than the future ones, as that is the pleasantest site which affords the pleasantest prospect. -- Henry David Thoreau
Napoleon affords us an example of the danger of elevating one's self to the absolute, and sacrificing everything to the carrying out of an idea. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Modesty makes large amends for the pain it gives those who labor under it, by the prejudice it affords every worthy person in their favor. -- William Shenstone
Golf in the interest of good health and good manners. It promotes self-restraint and affords a chance to play the man and act the gentleman. -- William Howard Taft
Having three operational vehicles in the fleet affords the shuttle program great schedule flexibility as we move toward flying safely and completing the international space station. -- Wayne Hale
Perseverance can lend the appearance of dignity and grandeur to many actions, just as silence in company affords wisdom and apparent intelligence to a stupid person. -- Georg C. Lichtenberg
Experimental science hardly ever affords us more than approximations to the truth; and whenever many agents are concerned we are in great danger of being mistaken. -- Humphry Davy
The fun is getting to wear multiple disguises and getting to explore multiple personalities and bring them to life. So a movie career definitely affords me that. -- Jenna Fischer
The history of fiat money is little more than a register of monetary follies and inflations. Our present age merely affords another entry in this dismal register. -- Hans F. Sennholz
Most man only care for science so far as they get a living by it, and that they worship even error when it affords them a subsistence. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Only those who love color are admitted to its beauty and immanent presence. It affords utility to all, but unveils its deeper mysteries only to its devotees. -- Johannes Itten
I like the little bit of distance that London affords me and I like living in a world capital. I like having the culture at my fingertips. -- Cillian Murphy
Ay, rail at gaming - 'tis a rich topic, and affords noble declamation. Go, preach against it in the city - you'll find a congregation in every tavern. -- Edward Moore
A hybrid human-robot mission to investigate an asteroid affords a realistic opportunity to demonstrate new technological capabilities for future deep-space travel and to test spacecraft for long-duration spaceflight. -- Buzz Aldrin
If all pleasure is relief from tension, junk affords relief from the whole life process, in disconnecting the hypothalamus, which is the center of psychic energy and libido. -- William S. Burroughs
They, and they only, advantage themselves by travel, who, well fraught with the experience of what their own country affords, carry ever with them large and thriving talents. -- Frances Osborne
I prefer film to TV because of the amount of time film affords you that TV doesn't (though theater is probably my favorite and the scariest place of all). -- Don Cheadle
I'm enjoying the opportunity that Parks And Recreation affords me to exploit my own soapbox agenda, which is to try to encourage people to make things with their hands. -- Nick Offerman
I'm enjoying the opportunity that 'Parks And Recreation' affords me to exploit my own soapbox agenda, which is to try to encourage people to make things with their hands. -- Nick Offerman
Scientific method is the way to truth, but it affords, even in principle, no unique definition of truth. Any so-called pragmatic definition of truth is doomed to failure equally. -- Willard Van Orman Quine
I swear by swadeshi as it affords occasion for ample exercise of all our faculties and it tests every one of the millions of men and women, young and old. -- Mahatma Gandhi
It affords a violent prejudice against almost every science, that no prudent man, however sure of his principles, dares prophesy concerning any event, or foretell the remote consequences of things. -- David Hume
Solicitous care for living things affords satisfaction to one of the most lively instincts of the child's mind. Nothing is better calculated than this to awaken an attitude of foresight. -- Maria Montessori
Mathematics was born and nurtured in a cultural environment. Without the perspective which the cultural background affords, a proper appreciation of the content and state of present-day mathematics is hardly possible. -- Raymond Louis Wilder
Oregon is an inspiration. Whether you come to it, or are born to it, you become entranced by our state's beauty, the opportunity she affords, and the independent spirit of her citizens. -- Tom McCall
For the most part, I have a very manageable celebrity. People recognize me from time to time, and they usually say very appreciative things. It affords me a great deal of pleasure. -- Armistead Maupin
The freedom I have as a U.S. citizen is unparalleled. Despite the fact people may not like American passports, having that passport affords me more freedoms than any other passport could. -- Chris Cornell
Hope itself is a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords; but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses of hope must be expiated by pain. -- Samuel Johnson
Natural selection does not give any preference at all to anything that, in the long run, could be advantageous for the species but blindly rewards everything that, momentarily, affords greater procreative success. -- Konrad Lorenz
The happy pagan is wrapped up in the belief that this world and the success it affords are the greatest pursuits in life. He or she feels no need for anything transcendent. -- Ravi Zacharias
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
God affords no man the comfort, the false comfort of Atheism: He will not allow a pretending Atheist the power to flatter himself, so far, as to seriously think there is no God. -- John Donne
This process of election affords a moral certainty that the office of President will seldom fall to the lot of any many who is not in an eminent degree endowed with the requisite qualifications. -- Alexander Hamilton
Is there anything more terrible than a "call"? It affords an occasion for the exchange of the most threadbare commonplaces. Calls and the theatre are the two great centers for the propagation of platitudes. -- Miguel de Unamuno

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