In public speaking, we must appeal either to the prejudices of others, or to the love of truth and justice. If we… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Slowly I learnt the ways of humans: how to ruin, how to hate, how to debase, how to humiliate. And at the… — Nick Dear Copy Share Image
All who contribute to the overthrow of religion, or to the ruin of kingdoms and commonwealths, all who are foes to letters… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
If you get someone who looks after himself and those around him, that's a deep ecologist. He can talk philosophy that I… — Bill Mollison Copy Share Image
When a man is just and firm in his purpose, The citizens burning to approve a wrong Or the frowning looks of… — Horace Copy Share Image
In most mills, only the best portions of the best trees are used, while the ruins are left on the ground to… — John Muir Copy Share Image
Contentment and happiness didn't exist in my life for more than a few moments at a time, and they were really only… — Sylvia Day Copy Share Image
In Paris, you couldn't really turn around without seeing the result of lovers' bad decisions. An artist given to sexual excess was… — Paula McLain Copy Share Image
“But instead of this peace which I dared to expect, what anguish has weighed down my days! To become the perpetual plaything… — François-René de Chateaubriand Copy Share Image
The very large, very respectable, and very knowing class of misanthropes who rejoice in the name of grumblers,--persons who are so sure… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
I've seen it before. There are women who spread ruin through no fault of theirs, just by being too beautiful, too ful… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think there’s someone up there just sitting around thinking of ways to make me look like a complete moron. Seriously,… — Michael Thomas Ford Copy Share Image
Be as far from desiring the popular love as fearful to deserve the popular hate; ruin dwells in both: the one will… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
Roman history was kind of unavoidable where I was growing up. It was everywhere - all the place names and ruins and… — Neil Marshall Copy Share Image
I'm always writing music. I sort of do it obsessively, for good or for bad. It's good that it keeps me going,… — Hamilton Leithauser Copy Share Image
If I dropped a tear upon your hand, may it wither it up! If I spoke a gentle word in your hearing,… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Did he say:"Hullo,Pippin!This is a pleasant surprise!"?No,indeed!He said:"Get up,you tom-fool of a Took!Where,in the name of wonder,in all this ruin is Treebeard?I… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
A missing arm might ruin your symmetry. Personal asymmetry where I come from is a big taboo and brings great shame on… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
All my life I have painted pictures so that certain people would drop dead when they looked at them, but I have… — Man Ray Copy Share Image
Today the governments of Latin America should be ashamed of not havingexterminated the indigenous, at the end of the twentieth century, because… — Rigoberta Menchu Copy Share Image
Ruin, eldest daughter of Zeus, she blinds us all, that fatal madness—she with those delicate feet of hers, never touching the earth,… — Homer Copy Share Image
Behold Vo Mimbre," Mandorallen proclaimed with pride, "queen of cities. Upon that rock the tide of Angarak crashed and recoiled and crashed… — David Eddings Copy Share Image
In a government framed for durable liberty, not less regard must be paid to giving the magistrate a proper degree of authority,… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
I dread our own power and our own ambition; I dread our being too much dreaded…We may say that we shall not… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
In 1953, after the armistice ending the Korean War, South Korea lay in ruins. President Eisenhower was eager to put an end… — Noah Feldman Copy Share Image
I believe only in money, not in love or tenderness. Love and tenderness meant only pain and suffering and defeat. I would… — Agnes Smedley Copy Share Image
Our earliest evidence of government, in the ruins of Babylon and Egypt, shows nothing but ziggurats and pyramids of wasted taxpayer money,… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
There be three sorts of government--monarchical, aristocratical, democratical; and they are apt to fall three several ways into ruin--the first, by tyranny;… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
She loved the sea for its storms alone, cared for vegetation only when it grew here and there among ruins. She had… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
O how wretched is that poor man that hangs on princes favors! There is betwixt that smile we would aspire to, that… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Possibility, infinity, beauty -- none of those words were right. [...] What he really wanted to say was: have you felt this?… — Haven Kimmel Copy Share Image
A nation is not worthy to be saved if, in the hour of its fate, it will not gather up all its… — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
The disappointment has come - not because God desires to hurt you or make you miserable or to demoralize you or ruin… — Kay Arthur Copy Share Image
There must be religion. When that ligament is torn, society is disjointed and its members perish... [T]he most important of all lessons… — Gouverneur Morris Copy Share Image
Truth gathers itself spotless and unhurt after all our surrenders and concealments and partisanship; never hurt by the treachery or ruin of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It is sometimes of God's mercy that men in the eager pursuit of worldly aggrandizement are baffled; for they are very like… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
I'm always aware that I risk being taken for a neurasthenic prima donna when I explain to someone who wants 'just a… — Gail Godwin Copy Share Image
He loved the extensive vaults where you could hear the night birds and the sea breeze; he loved the craggy ruins bound… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Mapping out dozens of deeply focused trips around the world has convinced me that preparation no more spoils the chance for spontaneity… — Phil Cousineau Copy Share Image
The nature of catastrophe is, after all, reasonably unvarying in the way it ruins, destroys, wounds and devastates. But if something can… — Simon Winchester Copy Share Image
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