Advice,' Doña Vorchenza chuckled. 'Advice. The years play a sort of alchemical trick, transmuting one's mutterings to a state of respectability. Give… — Scott Lynch Copy Share Image
Let those who wish have their respectability- I wanted freedom, freedom to indulge in whatever caprice struck my fancy, freedom to search… — Richard Halliburton Copy Share Image
“Respectability is a curse; it is an "evil" that corrodes the mind and heart. It creeps upon one unknowingly and destroys love.” — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
I know how easy it is for some minds to glide along with the current of popular opinion, where influence, respectability, and… — Benjamin F. Wade Copy Share Image
Maybe someday it will seem quaint that, during a time of plague, some of the parents of the 1990s wanted to deny… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Respectability and security are subtle traps on life's journey. Those who are drawn to extremes are often nearer to renewal and self-discovery.… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
The inquiry in England is not whether a man has talents and genius, but whether he is passive and polite and a… — William Blake Copy Share Image
The seven deadly sins... food, clothing, firing, rent, taxes, respectability and children. Nothing can lift those seven millstones from Man's neck but… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Respectability, regularity, and routine - the whole cast-iron discipline of a modern industrial society - have atrophied the artistic impulse, and imprisoned… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
There's this responsibility you feel to present a certain thing that kind of respectability politics. I think that became the only accepted… — Rick Famuyiwa Copy Share Image
We cut these numerous windings in our destinies daily with our own hands, while we imagine that we are pursuing a track… — H. P. Blavatsky Copy Share Image
The sense of doing good , the satisfaction of being right, the joy of looking favorably upon oneself, dear sir, are powerful… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
You have to understand, in the current academic climate, Intelligent Design is like leprosy or heresy in times past. To be tagged… — William A. Dembski Copy Share Image
Thyself and thy belongings Are not thine own so proper, as to waste Thyself upon thy virtues, they on thee. Heaven doth… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
All fear of 'offensive' speech is bourgeois and reactionary. Historically, profane or bawdy language was common in both the upper and the… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
One is conscious of no brave and noble earnestness in it, of no generalized passion for intellectual and spiritual adventure, of no… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Republicans seems to me to be chiefly concerned with holding on to what they have: in society, it's position, or respectability, or… — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
Naked need is the occasion for God's giving, not a need adorned with the clean, elegant robes of respectability and good works. — Miroslav Volf Copy Share Image
The world of shabby gentility is like no other; its sacrifices have less logic, its standards are harsher, its relation to reality… — Murray Kempton Copy Share Image
And having thus chosen our course, without guile, and with pure purpose, let us renew our trust in God, and go forward… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The one thing I would never wish it to be thought is that you play serious roles in order to achieve some… — Rowan Atkinson Copy Share Image
We are not saints yet, but we, too, should beware. Uprightness and virtue do have their rewards, in self-respect and in respect… — Philip Neri Copy Share Image
Smug respectability, like the poor, we've had with us always. Today, however, ... such obtuseness is an indulgence we can no longer… — Studs Terkel Copy Share Image
I was raised in an Irish-American home in Detroit where assimilation was the uppermost priority. The price of assimilation and respectability was… — Tom Hayden Copy Share Image
Whenever a man is known to seek promotion by intrigue, by temporizing, or by resorting to the haunts of vulgarity and vice… — Noah Webster Copy Share Image
Towards the end of the seventies pop was gaining the momentum and respectability was very high with groups like Yes and Queen… — Tony Visconti Copy Share Image
“Mr. Vholes is a very respectable man. He has not a large business, but he is a very respectable man. He is… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
There exists, at the bottom of all abasement and misfortune, a last extreme which rebels and joins battle with the forces of… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
To achieve respectability, to be admitted to the debate, they must accept without question or inquiry the fundamental doctrine that the state… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Society, civilized society at least, is never very ready to believe anything to the detriment of those who are both rich and… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
A sound banker, alas, is not one who foresees danger and avoids it, but one who, when he is ruined, is ruined… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
So if you are seeking something else in the name of creativity, then drop the idea of being creative. At least consciously,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
There's no denying that the way horror has been packaged in the past has done it no favours. Lurid black covers adorned… — Tim Lebbon Copy Share Image
