There is in the soul a taste for the good, just as there is in the body an appetite for enjoyment.
taste governs every free - as opposed to rote - human response. Nothing is more decisive. There is taste in people, visual taste, taste in emotion - and there is taste in acts, taste in morality. Intelligence, as well, is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
We need to have a taste factor in our life. It isn't about what's popular; it's about what's really good.
When you've tasted excess, everything else tastes bland.
The talent of the people in Brazil was extraordinary. I thought all of the hair and make-up was really fantastic. The aesthetic there is really something to behold. They just have such a great sense of taste.
A steak needs fat to taste great.
You have but mistook me all the while. . . I live by bread like you, taste grief, feel want, need friends. Conditioned thus how can you call me king?
"Taste is not only a part and index of morality, it is the only morality. The first, and last, and closest trial question to any living creature is "What do you like?" Tell me what you like, I'll tell you what you are. "
I see myself as an arbiter of taste.
what primitive tastes the ancients must have had if their poets were inspired by those absurd, untidy clumps of mist, idiotically jostling one another about
There never was a law yet made, I conceive, that hit the taste exactly of every man, or every part of the community; of course, if this be a reason for opposition, no law can be executed at all without force, and every man or set of men will in that case cut and carve for themselves; the consequences of which must be deprecated by all classes of men, who are friends to order, and to the peace and happiness of the country.
Cover your glass in France or Germany --even worse, in England - and in the voice of someone who has personally affronted, your host will ask why you're not drinking. 'Oh, I just don't feel like it this morning. ' 'Why not?' 'I guess I'm not in the mood?' 'Well, this'll put you in the mood. Here. Drink up. ' 'No, really, I'm OK. ' 'Just taste it. ' 'Actually, I'm sort of. . . well, I sort of have a problem with it. ' 'Then how about half a glass?
Understanding Scripture in a language other than the heart language in which we think and experience emotion is "like trying to eat soup with a fork. You can get a little taste, but you cannot get nourished.
Mmm, tastes like hepatitis!
The line between playing to win and sin is thin, But I walk it with grace and I talk it with taste. I am that raw, simply put, and I rest my case.
The nature of power is such that even those who have not sought it, but have had it forced upon them, tend to acquire a taste for more.
Why does everything so bad for you always taste so dreamy?
But I have bad taste with a deep fount of intellectuality.
The first step is to believe that it's possible. Once I had a taste of success, you start to believe in it a little more.
I don't have a very 'masculine' taste in music. I get a lot of heat from my friends about that.