I have very carefully studied Islam and the life of its Prophet (PBUH). I have done so both as a student of… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Good men and bad men differ radically. Bad men never appreciate kindness shown them, but wise men appreciate and are grateful. Wise… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The die is set and Malcolm will not escape for the foolish talk he spoke against his benefactor, such a man, is… — Louis Farrakhan Copy Share Image
To love Christ -means not to be a hireling, not to look upon a noble life as an enterprise or trade, but… — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
I am going to St. Petersburg, Florida, tomorrow. Let the worthy citizens of Chicago get their liquor the best they can. I'm… — Al Capone Copy Share Image
When the happy era shall arrive for the emancipation of nations, hastened on as it will be by the example of America,… — John Tyler Copy Share Image
All truth is valuable, and satirical criticism may be considered as useful when it rectifies error and improves judgment; he that refines… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The fire of the forest burns trees to ashes. Even expensive sandalwood tree which is endowed with qualities of cooling and fragrance,… — Chanakya Copy Share Image
Being human, we would expel from our lives physical pain and mental anguish and assure ourselves of continual ease and comfort, but… — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
On the Avenue in front of the White House were several hundred colored people, mostly women and children, weeping and wailing their… — Gideon Welles Copy Share Image
Some people point to me as the cause of all society's problems, others as if I am the benefactor, responsible for everything… — Hugo Chavez Copy Share Image
Christ willed to suffer and be despised and do you dare complain of the same? Christ had adversaries and backbiters; and do… — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
People hired by government know who is their benefactor. People who lose their jobs or fail to get them because of the… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
The sense that the meaning of the universe had evaporated was what seemed to escape those who welcomed Darwin as a benefactor… — R. J. Hollingdale Copy Share Image
Of the seven days God gave to us in a week, He said to take six, and use them for our business.… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
A person is not a democrat thanks to his ignorance of literature and the arts, nor an elitist because he or she… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
Often our good deeds make enemies for us, and the ungrateful person despises us on two counts; for he is not only… — Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable Copy Share Image
This idea [standardized time zones] was first advanced and fought for by Sandford Fleming of Canada and Charles F. Dowd of the… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Whenever I feel I'm working in a groove it's invariably because I feel I am being the benefactor in the situation rather… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
If you have a nation of men who have risen to that height of moral cultivation that they will not declare war… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Ingratitude is amongst them a capital crime, as we read it to have been in some other countries: for they reason thus;… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Pride only, the chief of all iniquities, can make us treat gifts as if they were rightful attributes of our nature, and,… — Bernard of Clairvaux Copy Share Image
Most people who have been done a favor consider it an opportunity to show their incorruptibility rather than their gratitude. This is… — Arthur Schnitzler Copy Share Image
For, when men shall meet as they ought, each a benefactor, a shower of stars, clothed with thoughts, with deeds, with accomplishments,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
One great blemish in the popular mind of America and the prolific parent of an innumerable brood of evils, is Universal Distrust… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Technology and production can be great benefactors of man, but they are mindless instruments, and if undirected they careen along with a… — Charles A. Reich Copy Share Image
We frequently fall into error and folly, not because the true principles of action are not known, but because for a time… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I haven't seen so much tippy-toeing around since the last time I went to the ballet. When members of the arts community… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
The first law that ever God gave to man was a law of pure obedience; it was a commandment naked and simple,… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
I don't feel any vulgar gratitude to you[for helping me]. I almost feel as if You ought to be grateful to ME,… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
This whole business of Trade gives me to pause and think, as it constitutes false relations between men; inasmuch as I am… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Crooked Warden, I will fear no darkness for the night is yours," muttered Locke, pointing the first two fingers of his left… — Scott Lynch Copy Share Image
Look at every path closely and deliberately. Try it as many times as you think necessary. Then ask yourself and yourself alone… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image