The rising unto place is laborious, and by pains men come to greater pains; and it is sometimes base, and by indignities… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
During the first years of my life, I've been told, I was not a very pleasant child. Crying and sickness were my… — John Havlicek Copy Share Image
I know there are people who are praying for my downfall, but they're going to be like, 'Wow, Xan's actually an artist.' — Lil Xan Copy Share Image
When an actor thinks he has arrived and become the best one, that's when your downfall starts. I will always strive to… — Tahir Raj Bhasin Copy Share Image
It doesn't really matter to me what the rest of country is doing. I'm not caught up in trying to make a… — Joe Nichols Copy Share Image
Your very success is what's going to destroy you. The survival mechanism that you've developed is the very thing which will cause… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Love is the greatest corrupter ever known and has been the numbers one downfall of mankind since the first creation. — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
The small companies who feel that the majors are a threat, or are predators, will use that as an excuse for their… — Greg Ginn Copy Share Image
Busyness, I feel increasingly, is the writer's curse and downfall. You read too much and write too readily, you become cut off… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
When you choose your profession, you also choose your own downfall or success. If one chooses to become an artist it is… — Odd Nerdrum Copy Share Image
In one point of view, we, the abolitionists and colored people, should meet [the Dred Scott] decision, unlooked for and monstrous as… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
I may love individual people, but I am contemptuous of the arrogance , and in a way, it's both ruined me and… — Larry Fessenden Copy Share Image
When news of the surrender first reached our lines our men commenced firing a salute of a hundred guns in honor of… — Ulysses S. Grant Copy Share Image
Show me one thing here on earth which has begun well and not ended badly. The proudest palpitations are engulfed in a… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
I will destroy you. No matter how long it takes, no matter what it costs me. I won’t sleep, I won’t eat.… — Jennifer Estep Copy Share Image
I think that can also be the downfall at the same time in what's really difficult about being kind of in the… — Amandla Stenberg Copy Share Image
In private enterprises men may advance or recede, whereas they who aim at empire have no alternative between the highest success and… — Tacitus Copy Share Image
Self-destruction is such an interesting thing for a dramatist, and what's particular to Nixon is how human the failings were that led… — Peter Morgan Copy Share Image
A lot of players get to a certain point they don't want to make mistakes. They just want everyone to see how… — Jaylen Brown Copy Share Image
I'm a patient person. I think that's one thing that I feel comfortable I can deal with - the downfall and the… — Phil Jackson Copy Share Image
Donald Trump does not stick to Republican orthodoxy, which, you know, and this is always supposed to have been his downfall. Maybe… — Chuck Todd Copy Share Image
“True devotion and humility is when you carelessly allow yourself to fall in love with things you consider will make you look… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Corruption could lead to the collapse of the Party [Communist Party of China] and the downfall of the state [People's Republic of… — Xi Jinping Copy Share Image
I'm inspired by the poets, so I'm always going to give in that direction, rather than in any other. It's the making… — Roy Harper Copy Share Image
The downfall of the church will not come from a lack of apologetic teaching; it will come from disintegration of the families… — Josh McDowell Copy Share Image
“Symbolic thinking of any kind would signal downfall, in Crake’s view. Next they’d be inventing idols, and funerals, and grave goods, and… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
One of the remarkable things about my career is that it has been marked by steady, incremental progress. No sudden spikes up,… — Phil Hartman Copy Share Image
As far as we can look back into history, the downfall of any nation can be traced from the moment that nation… — Frederick Russell Burnham Copy Share Image
“Downfall? How ominous you make it sound. There is no downfall being plotted. Merely a question being asked. (Callie) Aye, and empires… — Kinley MacGregor Copy Share Image
I feel like the downfall of any person is the second an artist starts celebrating their work themselves, that becomes problematic. — Questlove Copy Share Image
Republicans are living in a hermetically sealed Republican universe, just as Democrats are. And so they're responding to their own universe, even… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
The downfall of every civilization comes, not from the moral corruption of the common man, but rather from the moral complacency of… — E. Digby Baltzell Copy Share Image
There is no media freedom in China. As a result, the society is corrupt and lacks productivity. It is unable to adjust… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
I love to eat, I love to feed people, and I'm a great cook. I joked with my friends that I wanted… — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
When a man thinks he has got a good deal of strength, and is self-confident, you may look for his downfall. It… — Dwight L. Moody Copy Share Image
From triumph to downfall there is but one step. I have noted that, in the most momentous occasions, mere nothings have always… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Every generation has a macabre notion that wars, government prohibition, natural disasters or mankind itself could be the downfall of society and… — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
“It was the downfall of love, Lamia thought wistfully, that it inspired the lover to toss away any shred of caution just… — Shamim Sarif Copy Share Image
With the mega-fame came the mega-downfall - you know, with the press and everything - and at a young age, it was… — Vanilla Ice Copy Share Image
“Watching, she had felt unusually and keenly alive, alive the way a knife is sharp, so that the humiliation she was enduring… — Sonya Hartnett Copy Share Image
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