Who was it who said that every virtue contains its corresponding vice? C.S. Lewis? Virginia Woolf? You forget. But it has always… — Kevin Brockmeier Copy Share Image
Vices may be said to await us along the course of our lives like hosts with whom we lodge successively on a… — François La Rochefoucauld Duc De Copy Share Image
The way I think of it, economics and ecology occupy two intellectual silos, isolated from each other. Even when they do take… — Charles C. Mann Copy Share Image
You cannot give the vice president the authority to declassify specific information and then turn around and say he can just give… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
If virtue cannot shine bright, but by the conflict of contrary appetites, shall we then say that she cannot subsist without the… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
... we must drive them [Jews] out like mad dogs, so that we do not become partakers of their abominable blasphemy and… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Like Daniel she enteres the lions' den, but lacking Daniel's pure and unblemished soul, Ada is spiced with the flavors of vice… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
The good devout man first makes inner preparation for the actions he has later to perform. His outward actions do not draw… — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
Well in two months, it'd be sunbathing time. That made me smile. I enjoyed lying in the sun in a little bikini,… — Charlaine Harris Copy Share Image
The gross debaucheries and atrocious cruelties are covered with a resplendent mental veil because of the systematic exposition of the philosophic principles… — Iwan Bloch Copy Share Image
Steve Jobs was rare: a C.E.O. who actually had a huge impact on his company's fortunes. Contrary to corporate mythology, most C.E.O.s… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
Without knowledge there can be no sure progress. Vice and barbarism are the inseparable companions of ignorance. Nor is it too much… — Charles Sumner Copy Share Image
But are sailors, frequenters of fiddlers' greens, without vices? No; but less often than with landsmen do their vices, so called, partake… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
In an interview, former vice-presidential candidate Paul Ryan said he does not have a racist bone in his body. However, he admitted… — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
Evil borders upon good, and vices are confounded with virtues; as the report of good qualities is delightful to a well-disposed mind,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My ex-husband and I, even though we're not together, we are 100 percent together in raising our kid. We communicate a lot… — Charisma Carpenter Copy Share Image
Write comic books if you love comic books so much that you want to write them. Don't write them like movies. Comics… — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
There is no vice, of which a man can be guilty, no meanness, no shabbiness, no unkindness, which excited so much indignation… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Vice President Dick Cheney reportedly has been disturbed over what he sees as the erosion of presidential powers since the Watergate scandal… — Helen Thomas Copy Share Image
I saw a Harry Reid statement saying, there's nothing in the Constitution that says the Senate has to act on any presidential… — Nina Totenberg Copy Share Image
People's lives are filled with vice and the trappings of it. Ambition, greed and selfishness all have to do with vice. Sooner… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
Whether Barack Obama is simply incompetent as president or has some hidden agenda to undermine this country, at home and abroad, he… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
While extremely sensitive as to the slightest approach to slander, you must also guard against an extreme into which some people fall,… — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share Image