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Only yesterday I was full of worldly fancies, although religion had already some share in my thoughts: glory was still my daydream. Today my hopes are higher, and I covet here below nothing but obscurity and peace.

Organization charts and fancy titles count for next to nothing.

Or sweetest Shakespeare, Fancy's child!

O,speak to me no more;these words like daggers enter my ears.(a fancy way of saying SHUT UP!)" — William Shakespeare "hamlet

Our fancies are more giddy and unfirm, more longing, wavering, sooner lost and won, than women's are.

Paleontologists [fossil experts] have paid an exorbitant price for Darwin's argument. We fancy ourselves as the only true students of life's history, yet to preserve our favored account of evolution by natural selection we view our data as so bad that we almost never see the very process we profess to study.

People are approaching electronic levels in music; although not all of it happens to tickle my fancy

Personal publicity is apt to be dangerous to any writer's integrity; for the moment he begins to fancy himself as quite a person, a taint creeps into his work.

Philosophy, beginning in wonder, as Plato and Aristotle said, is able to fancy everything different from what it is. It sees the familiar as if it were strange, and the strange as if it were familiar. It can take things up and lay them down again. It rouses us from our native dogmatic slumber and breaks up our caked prejudices.

Poetry does not consist of words alone; there must be sentiment and fancy, combination and arrangement.

Plot is just a fancy way of saying 'and then.

Possession, it is true, crowns exertion with rest; but it is only in the illusions of fancy that it has power to charm us.

Poetry is like painting: one piece takes your fancy if you stand close to it, another if you keep at some distance.

so full of shapes is fancy

Repentance is no other than a recanting of the will, and opposition to our fancies, which lead us which way they please.

She tried to fancy what the flame of a candle is like after the candle is blown out, for she could not remember ever having seen such a thing.

She will never submit to any thing requiring industry and patience, and a subjection of the fancy to the understanding.

Singleton has an almost uncanny ability to resist being caught up in the fads and fancies of the moment. Like most great innovators [and investors! - Ed.], Henry Singleton is supremely indifferent to criticism.

So I fancy my Muse says, when I wish to die, Oh no, Oh no, we are not yet friends enough, And Virtue also says: We are not yet friends enough.

'Prop trading' is just a fancy term for banks gambling in the market for their own profit.

She was at that modulating point between indifference and love, at the stage called having a fancy for. It occurs once in the history of the most gigantic passions, and it is a period when they are in the hands of the weakest will.

So full of shapes is fancy That it alone is high fantastical.

Somebody is going to have to do fancy footwork to make sure Elizabeth and John Edwards get their prime-time shot .

Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy.

Some people, of course, can be happier with the cars, the fancy threads, the hilltop mansion, and the other status symbols of 'having made it', but I found that several of my most prized possessions were slipping away, despite all the fortune I had amassed.

Sometimes you have to gag on fancy before you can appreciate plain, th' way I see it. For too many years, I ate fancy, I dressed fancy, I talked fancy. A while back, I decided to start talkin' th' way I was raised t' talk, and for th' first time in forty years, I can understand what I'm sayin'.

Sometimes you have to gag on fancy before you can appreciate plain.

Sometimes my fancy gets to floating inside me, threatening to carry me away like a leaf on a wind. Better to be a stone.

Some writers may toy with the fancy of a ‘Christ-myth,’ but they do not do so on the ground of historical evidence. The historicity of Christ is as axiomatic for an unbiased historian as the historicity of Julius Caesar. It is not historians who propagate the ‘Christ-myth’ theories.

Strong Reason and good fancy, joyn'd with experience and tryalls, so that we are assured of the good effects of it.

Steve Coogan does something for me. He is so naughty, but I quite fancy him.

The advantages found in history seem to be of three kinds, as it amuses the fancy, as it improves the understanding, and as it strengthens virtue.

Superstition is a part of the very being of humanity; and when we fancy that we are banishing it altogether, it takes refuge in the strangest nooks and corners, and then suddenly comes forth again, as soon as it believes itself at all safe.

Tell me where is fancy bred, Or in the heart, or in the head?

Symbolism is no mere idle fancy or corrupt degeneration: it is inherent in the very texture of human life.

Talent wears well, genius wears itself out; talent drives a snug brougham in fact; genius, a sun-chariot in fancy.

The most lively fancy aided by the strongest description cannot equal the reality of the opera.

The best food is in Chicago. There are great restaurants everywhere, from fancy places to burger joints.

The fancies of wine are authentic events.

The game Flights of Fancy or Reverse Strip Jump is played from as high a jumping-point as a competitor will dare. After each successful jump, the competitor is allowing to put on an article of clothing. Thirteen jumps is normally more than enough to see a competitor fully dressed for the day.

The greatest architectural illusion is not Baroque fancy or Victorian flamboyant, but minimalism.

The instinct to produce great work doesn't require a fancy notebook.

The line was originally, ‘Captain Phillips, get a load of me: fancy-free on the seven seas,’ but I ad-libbed.

The loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy.

The niftiest turn of phrase, the most elegant flight of rhetorical fancy, isn't worth beans next to a clear thought clearly expressed.

The Author's Way of sending forth his Second Part of the Pilgrim. Some things are of that nature as to make One's fancy chuckle, while his heart doth ache.

The best real-estate investments with the highest yields are in working-class neighborhoods, because fancy properties are overpriced.

The gross feeder is a man in the larva state; and there are whole nations in that condition, nations without fancy or imagination,whose vast abdomens betray them.

The myths connected with individual sanctuaries and ceremonies were merely part of the apparatus of the worship; they served to excite the fancy and sustain the interest of the worshipper... no one cared what he believed about its origin.

The power of daring anything their fancy suggest, as always been conceded to the painter and the poet.