I was a good student, I was good at soccer, I was vice president of the student council, I was a pretty… — Evangeline Lilly Copy Share Image
There is no evil that does not offer inducements. Vices tempt you by the rewards which they offer. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Arresting development, attacking science, and glorifying poverty is not the answer to the vices that attend prosperity. — Abdolkarim Soroush Copy Share Image
Sometimes you get lit students that know a lot about the canon but virtually nothing about contemporary poetry and vice versa. I… — Elaine Equi Copy Share Image
I regret that a private comment I made to the vice presidential candidate made it through the public airways. — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Innocence alone dares commit certain acts of audacity. Virtue, when tutored, is as calculating as vice. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
It can fairly be said of John Smith that he had all the virtues of a Scottish presbyterian, but none of the… — Menzies Campbell Copy Share Image
Vice has more martyrs than virtue; and it often happens that men suffer more to be lost than to be saved. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Ignorance, far more than idleness, is the mother of all the vices; and how recent has been the admission, that knowledge should… — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
A year ago, my approval rating was in the 30s, my nominee for the supreme court had just withdrawn, and my vice… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
There is only one vice, which may be found in life with as strong features, and as high a colouring as needs… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Gaming is a vice the more dangerous as it is deceitful; and, contrary to every other species of luxury, flatters its votaries… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
I spent several years in a North Vietnamese prison camp, in the dark, fed with scraps. Do you think I want to… — John McCain Copy Share Image
There will he nothing more that posterity can add to our immoral habits; our descendants must have the same desires and act… — Juvenal Copy Share Image
A man in love prefers his passion to every other consideration, and is fonder of his mistress than he is of virtue.… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
He who busies himself with things other than improvement of his own self becomes perplexed in darkness and entangled in ruin. His… — Ali ibn Abi Talib Copy Share Image
What a benefit would the American government, not yet relieved of its extreme need, render to itself, and to every city, village… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
People must learn that the accumulation of wealth by the successful conduct of business is the corollary of the improvement of their… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The rhythmic pattern of the poem, which forces continuity of attention - incites a pleasurable compulsion to 'follow' - is either a… — Laura Riding Copy Share Image
Well, but you affirm that virtue is only elicited by temptation; - and you think that a woman cannot be too little… — Anne Bronte Copy Share Image
She felt so old, so worn out, so far away from the best moments of her life that she even yearned for… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
We say then, that Christianity is adapted to the intellect, because its spirit coincides with that of true philosophy; because it removes… — Mark Hopkins Copy Share Image
While it is undeniable that many have been driven to immorality and crime by the need to survive, it is equally evident… — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
When people impute special vices to the Christian Church, they seem entirely to forget that the world (which is the only other… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Not to know how to deny our soul its own wishes, is to foment a very hot-bed of vices. — Philip Neri Copy Share Image
Me, what's that after all? An arbitrary limitation of being bounded by the people before and after and on either side. Where… — Russell Hoban Copy Share Image
I don't really believe in vices. I love wine and cheese and chocolate, but they're what make life fun. They're a pleasure… — Donna Air Copy Share Image
“Vices have to masquerade as virtues — lust as love, thinly veiled sadism as military discipline, envy as righteous indignation, domestic tyranny… — Cornelius Plantinga Jr Copy Share Image
Nor did demons crucify Him; it is you who have crucified Him and crucify Him still, when you delight in your vices… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Were there no desire there would be no virtue, and because one man desires what another does not, who shall say whether… — Edgar Rice Burroughs Copy Share Image
No distinction is 'tween man and man, But as his virtues add to him a glory Or vices cloud him. — William Habington Copy Share Image
“the problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure there going to have some pretty… — Elizabeth Taylor Copy Share Image
The vices respectively fall short of or exceed what is right in both passions and actions, while virtue both finds and chooses… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
I sometimes think that shame, mere awkward, senseless shame, does as much towards preventing good acts and straightforward happiness as any of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Our virtues and vices couple with one another, and get children that resemble both their parents. — Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet Copy Share Image
The greatest moral failing is to condemn something as a moral failing: no vice is worse than being judgmental. — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
Idleness is the beginning of all psychology. What? Could it be that psychology is ? a vice? — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Ponder the fact that God has made you a gardener, to root out vice and plant virtue. — St. Catherine of Siena Copy Share Image
The main vice of capitalism is the uneven distribution of prosperity. The main vice of socialism is the even distribution of misery. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
