Stories now, to suit a public taste, must be half epigram, half pleasant vice. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
One principal characteristic of vice in the present age is the contempt of fame. — Thomas Gray Copy Share Image
Life works on strange laws of nature (Karma). One never knows when a friend turns enemy & vice-versa. Rely on your Self; self-reliance — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Copy Share Image
“We never like the smell of our own vices in other people, Holmes. Ah, let's steer here for a drink or two,"… — Matthew Pearl Copy Share Image
There was a lot of stuff happening in Havana that was being heard and appreciated by New Orleans musicians because of this… — Ruben Blades Copy Share Image
Deceit is the false road to happiness; and all the joys we travel through to vice, like fairy banquets, vanish when we… — Aaron Hill Copy Share Image
I was student council president in high school, and even in law school, I was vice-president of the student bar association. — Demetri Martin Copy Share Image
A vice utterly at variance with the happiness of him who harbors it, and, as such, condemned by self-love. — James Mackintosh Copy Share Image
The Senate gathered to say goodbye to Vice President Joe Biden. Biden has been a presence there for more than 40 years. — Ari Shapiro Copy Share Image
You must come to terms with your wholeself. the wholeness which exceeds all our virtue and all our vice. — Ursula K. Le Guin 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
Never take advice about never taking advice. That is an old vice of men - to dish it out without being able… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
I measure success in terms of the connection with the audience, which we've been able to do in spades. I mean, it's… — Tom Freston Copy Share Image
You can reasonably make the intellectual journey from thinking it's permissible to eat shrimp to thinking it's not permissible, or vice versa,… — Catherine Wilson Copy Share Image
Nothing can be more real, or concern us more, than our own sentiments of pleasure and uneasiness; and if these be favourable… — David Hume Copy Share Image
That friendship may be at once fond and lasting, there must not only be equal virtue on each part, but virtue of… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
What we call vice in our neighbor may be nothing less than a crude virtue. To him who knows nothing more of… — William Gilmore Simms Copy Share Image
As an English major I was familiar with the stories of dozens of writers trying to get their work done among the… — Jim Harrison Copy Share Image
Non-violence and cowardice are contradictory terms. Non-violence is the greatest virtue, cowardice the greatest vice. Non-violence springs from love, cowardice from hate.… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Each of us plays four roles in relation to the brain. We lead, we inspire, we invent, and we use it. Most… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
Academia is alas full of special interests and specialists who presumed it was possible to "leapfrog" over this or that entire line… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
I had studied history at Brown and didn't feel like doing anything with it. What does one do with a history degree… — Elizabeth Neel Copy Share Image
It is not every calamity that is a curse, and early adversity is often a blessing. Perhaps Madame de Maintenon would never… — James Sharp Copy Share Image
Others are affected by what I am, and say, and do. So that a single act of mine may spread and spread… — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
He has made me wary of chronological snobbery. That is, he showed me that newness is no virtue and oldness is no… — John Piper Copy Share Image
