“Humans are designed to seek comfort and order, and so if they have comfort and order, they tend to plant themselves, even… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
Privilege and complacency paralyze me with fear sometimes. But the less vulnerable we are because of privilege, the country we're born in,… — Brandi Carlile Copy Share Image
I wonder how many marriages are fractured and damaged beyond repair by complacency rather than any single traumatic event. One day you… — Tracey Garvis-Graves Copy Share Image
One thing is certain: the arts keep you alive. They stimulate, encourage, challenge, and, most of all, guarantee a future free from… — Vincent Price Copy Share Image
“Do not be complacent about your achievements and not to strive for continual improvement when you get to the top. As soon… — Roy T. Bennett Copy Share Image
“When you're used to having nothing, nothing becomes your everything, and you never really want for anything. But it's a double-edged sword,… — Isaac Hooke Copy Share Image
The final test of religious faith... is whether it will enable men to endure insecurity without complacency or despair, whether it can… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
From long familiarity, we know what honor is. It is what enables the individual to do right in the face of complacency… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
The hole in the ozone layer is a kind of skywriting. At first it seemed to spell out our continuing complacency before… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Only the man who has had to face despair is really convinced that he needs mercy. Those who do not want mercy… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
When I earned my diploma from the University of Virginia in the spring of 2000, it never occurred to me before my… — Kim Brooks Copy Share Image
One of the deep fundamentals of poetry is the recurrence of sounds, syllables, words, phrases, lines, and stanzas. Repetition can be one… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
Christians are as subject to complacency as anybody else, and we can certainly settle into repetition and forget that something radical and… — Francis Spufford Copy Share Image
The young person isn't certain that love can be real; the middle-aged man is only discovering that it is; and the older… — Conor McPherson Copy Share Image
It is in the nature of political bodies always to see the evil in the opposite group, just as the individual has… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
“It’s a fallacy that this generation does not know how to love as its predecessor did. Truth of the matter is, modern… — Lebo Grand Copy Share Image
Experiments in the visual arts (the invention of new ways of seeing things), are made because, due to the way the apparatus… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
The benevolent have the advantage of the envious, even in this present life; for the envious man is tormented not only by… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Nothing about his life is more strange to [man] or more unaccountable in purely mundane terms than the stirrings he finds in… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
By neglecting our garden, we are storing up for ourselves, in the not very distant future, a world catastrophe as bad as… — Gerald Durrell Copy Share Image
Love...no such thing. Whatever it is that binds families and married couples together, that's not love. That's stupidity or selfishness or fear.… — Arthur Rimbaud Copy Share Image
Like an unexpected wet mop in the face of tired complacency, The Sovereignty Solution works on the receptive mind as a pry… — Adam Garfinkle Copy Share Image
“I wouldn't want [the people of Baleyworld] to live that long as a general thing. The pace of historical and intellectual advance… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
One of the greatest foes of the Christian is religious complacency.. Orthodox Christianity has fallen to its present low estate from lack… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
I have been fortunate to have been brought up on a diet of adventure and privileged to take part in number of… — Pete Goss Copy Share Image
Every person in the world is by nature a slave to sin. The world, by nature, is held in sin's grip. What… — Joel Beeke Copy Share Image
There's a lot of rage in my head. I like the friction that means there is nothing relaxing about writing a poem.… — Alice Oswald Copy Share Image
Courage consists, however, in agreeing to flee rather than live tranquilly and hypocritically in false refuges. Values, morals, homelands, religions, and these… — Gilles Deleuze Copy Share Image
The pleasure of a good act is something to be remembered - not in order to feed our complacency but in order… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Complaisance, though in itself it be scarce reckoned in the number of moral virtues, is that which gives a lustre to every… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
There comes a time, there comes a time in the history of nations when fear and complacency allow power to accumulate and… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
There's a huge dichotomy between people who grow up with alienation, which, for me, was invaluable, and people who grow up so… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
I'm from the American West. We have forest fires out there. And some of the worst forest fires in our history, the… — James Mattis Copy Share Image
The power of a bold idea uttered publicly in defiance of dominant opinion cannot be easily measured. Those special people who speak… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“Sometimes Coriolanus wondered if the debris had been left there to remind the citizens of what they had endured. People had short… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
As one recalls some of the monstrous situations under which human beings have lived and live their lives, one marvels at man's… — George Amos Dorsey Copy Share Image
“A person is not like a thing that you put down in one place and leave, a person moves, thinks, asks, questions,… — José Saramago Copy Share Image
![“Nothing about his life is more strange to [man] or more unaccountable in purely mundane terms than the stirrings he finds in himself, usually fitful but sometimes overwhelming, to look beyond his animal existence and not be fully satisfied with its immediate substance. He lacks the complacency of…” quote by Lewis Mumford](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/ca6/lewis-mumford-2870_aim_nothing-about-his-life-is-more-strange-t_1783624.png)
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