During an election campaign the air is full of speeches and vice versa. — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
What I desire most of you, my son, is never to gamble or swear. These are baneful vices. — Nathan Bedford Forrest Copy Share Image
First Lady Michelle Obama has posted an exercise video of her beating up a punching bag. But don't worry, Vice President Biden… — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
The Vice-Presidency is sort of like the last cookie on the plate. Everybody insists he won't take it, but somebody always does. — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
None seem to bear the imputation of supposed guilt with greater intolerance than such as are, on other occasions, obviously culpable of… — Norm MacDonald Copy Share Image
Those vices [luxury and neglect of decent manners] are vices of men, not of the times. [Lat., Hominum sunt ista [vitia], non… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
If we should cease to be generous and charitable because another is sordid and ungrateful, it would be much in the power… — Roger L'Estrange Copy Share Image
No one can shed light on vices he does not have or afflictions he has ever experienced. — Antonio Machado Copy Share Image
To make judgements about great and lofty things, a soul of the same stature is needed; otherwise we ascribe to them that… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Therefore, in order not to have to rob his subjects, to be able to defend himself, not to become poor and contemptible,… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
If I quake, what matters it what I quake at? Our proper vice takes form in one or another shape, according to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It is not enough to show that drug A is better than drug B on the average. One is invited to ask,… — Lancelot Hogben Copy Share Image
The idea that political freedom can be preserved in the absence of economic freedom, and vice versa, is an illusion. Political freedom… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
I was utterly free of speculative prejudices. The bear side doesn't appeal to me any more than the bull side, or vice… — Jesse Lauriston Livermore Copy Share Image
For some sport is a hobby but for me it is a way to survive. It makes me calm, balanced and well-rested.… — Mikhail Prokhorov Copy Share Image
I always listen to music, my passion and vice is music, I will be denied access to heaven because of the number… — Anthony Minghella Copy Share Image
Sensuality, too, which used to show itself course, smiling, unmasked, and unmistakable, is now serious, analytic, and so burdened with a sense… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
It was a very interesting experience. You know, I don't think words could do it justice. Roseanne [Barr] is a comedian, a… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
Your interviews or blog posts or whatever are less supplements to your novel than part of it. I'm not private, but I… — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
In the 1920s the young English physicist Paul Dirac began trying to understand and describe the space-time evolution of the electron, the… — Antonino Zichichi Copy Share Image
Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all. The infant breaks his toy, bites… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
To accuse another of having weak kidneys, lungs, or heart, is not a crime; on the contrary, saying he has a weak… — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
“One does not learn anything except by believing something, and -- conversely -- if one doubts everything one learns nothing. On the… — Lesslie Newbigin Copy Share Image
I won't deny the polemical elements in my work, but they are less in the service of attempting to reform human behavior… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
I'm not suggesting at all that we take away all of the characters' vices. I am suggesting that this particular vice is… — Joe Eszterhas Copy Share Image
The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Loud indignation against vice often stands for virtue in the eyes of bigots. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn Copy Share Image
The vices of idleness are only to be shaken off by active employment. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Every man with his own peculiar vice. His will hardly rock heaven or hell. — Colum McCann Copy Share Image