Well, whiles I am a beggar, I will rail, And say there is no sin but to be rich; And being rich,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Young men make wars, and the virtues of war are the virtues of young men: courage, and hope for the future. Then… — Alec Guinness Copy Share Image
The end of all moral speculations is to teach us our duty; and, by proper representations of the deformity of vice and… — David Hume Copy Share Image
albinos aren't reproached for having pink eyes and whitish hair, why should they hold it again me for being a lesbian? It's… — Natalie Clifford Barney Copy Share Image
There is no academic virtue in playing mediocre football and no academic vice in winning a game that by all odds one… — Theodore Hesburgh Copy Share Image
If there were two candidates, a Democrat and a Republican, who each committed to the same kind of fundamental reform, then the… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
Common wisdom dictates that the vice president should provide balance to the ticket by representing a different part of the country, another… — Madeleine M. Kunin Copy Share Image
Hillary Clinton could say she was a woman and running for president. And Sarah Palin could say she was a woman and… — Paul Mooney Copy Share Image
My heart was fashioned to be susceptible of love and sympathy, and when wrenched by misery to vice and hatred, it did… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Most people regard the primeval forest as a threatening domain of wilderness trails that often lead bewildered hikers to their deaths, nests… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
We have made men proud of most vices, but not of cowardice. Whenever we have almost succeeded in doing so, God permits… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It may be the will of Heaven that America shall suffer calamities still more wasting, and distresses yet more dreadful. If this… — John Adams Copy Share Image
It is unnatural that a pure stream should flow from a foul fountain its vices are but a continuation of the vices… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Truly color is vice! Of course, it can be, and has the right to be one of the finest virtues. Controlled by… — James Whistler Copy Share Image
I am more affected by the attractions of virtue than by the deformities of vice; I turn gently away from the wicked… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
I suppose as long as novels last, and authors aim at interesting their public, there must always be in the story a… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
Hardly ever can a youth transferred to the society of his betters unlearn the nasality and other vices of speech bred in… — William James Copy Share Image
“I had a dream about you last night. Our vices had wings and our fears could breathe fire. There was nowhere to… — Crystal Hudson Copy Share Image
I need people to know that there is a group of people who are part of the leadership of the DNC, and… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
Vice may triumph for a time, crime may flaunt its victories in the face of honest toilers, but in the end the… — Allan Pinkerton Copy Share Image
The characteristic virtue of Englishmen is power of sustained practical activity and their characteristic vice a reluctance to test the quality of… — R. H. Tawney Copy Share Image
One of the most evil dispositions possible is that which satirizes and turns everything to ridicule. God abhors this vice, and has… — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
Play more than one sport in high school. If you play, say, football and basketball, you can learn to be physical and… — Antonio Gates Copy Share Image
I strongly agree with Vice President Gore that we cannot drill our way to energy independence, but must fast-track investments in renewable… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
How often do we contradict the right rules of reason in the whole course of our lives! Reason itself is true and… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
“I have no more than twenty acres of ground," he replied, "the whole of which I cultivate myself with the help of… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
It is said that any virtue when taken to an extreme can become a vice. Overscheduling our days would certainly qualify for… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf Copy Share Image
Sin is a thing that writes itself across a man's face. It cannot be concealed. People talk sometimes of secret vices, there… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Capitalism is being attacked not because it is inefficient or misgoverned but because it is cynical. And indeed a society based on… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
All men's instincts, all their impulses in life, are efforts to increase their freedom. Wealth and poverty, health and disease, culture and… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
...I normally can't stand vice-free people. They conflate a narcissistic instinct for self-preservation with moral superiority. Plus they suck the life right… — Dennis Lehane Copy Share Image
Change life! Change Society! These ideas lose completely their meaning without producing an appropriate space. A lesson to be learned from soviet… — Henri Lefebvre Copy Share Image
I found my mind has changed over the last years. Different vulnerabilities - things that I was never vulnerable to before I… — Paolo Nutini Copy Share Image
My grandmother had a Miss Margaret's School of Dance to teach tap and ballet to kids, but I never studied it. I… — Michelle Shocked Copy Share Image
I'm with someone who's got very high standards, and he doesn't tolerate all these ridiculous vices very easily. That's not reason enough… — Chrissie Hynde Copy Share Image
The vice of envy is not only a dangerous, but a mean vice; for it is always a confession of inferiority. It… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Certainly, I know what to do, and when I am Vice President -- and I will be -- there will be contingency… — Dan Quayle Copy Share Image
The word of God is full of sad and grave counsel, full of the knowledge of God, of examples of virtues, and… — John Jewel Copy Share Image
I am not interested in being vice president of the United States. I've let the candidate know. If the candidate asks me… — Brian Williams Copy Share Image
As we think of power in the 21st century, we want to get away from the idea that power’s always zero sum… — Joseph Nye Copy Share Image
