Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires…

Do not, as some ungracious pastors do, Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven; Whilst, like a puff'd and reckless libertine, Himself…

— William Shakespeare

Tis well for old age that it is always accompanied with want of perception, ignorance, and a facility of being deceived. For should we…

— Michel de Montaigne

The height and value of true virtue consists in the facility, utility, and pleasure of its exercise; so far from difficulty, that boys, as…

— Michel de Montaigne

I am amazed at the facility with which some men follow in the wake of slavery.

— Benjamin F. Wade

The three great ends which a statesman ought to propose to himself in the government of a nation, are 1. Security to possessors; 2.…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

What I've found is that a lot of soldiers are surprisingly apolitical. Their reality is, "Today I'm going to leave the gate for twelve…

— Henry Rollins

Near the end of his life, my father proved to be, at his core, a very polite, chivalrous man. He walked the halls of…

— Jennifer L. Knox

I will veto any spending bill that contains funding for Planned Parenthood, facilities that perform abortion and all government family planning schemes.

— Ron Paul

Knowledge, or verbal facility, is no proof that you know what you're talking about.

— Terence McKenna

One of the most worrisome things that emerges from the thick intelligence file we have on Iraq's biological weapons is the existence of mobile…

— Colin Powell

The common man, finding himself in a world so excellent, technically and socially, believes it has been produced by nature, and never thinks of…

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

I'm getting less good at faking it. People in my family are noticing and asking what's wrong. My friends give me invitations to talk,…

— Martha Manning

We will apply the experience accumulated in the past four years to the operation of every competition and training venue as well as facilities…

— Liu Jingmin

I normally don't initiate conversations with guys unless they want to talk about certain things - when I'm at the facility, I'm there to…

— Chris Kluwe

Money should not be in the hands of individuals; otherwise it will create this problem of being burdened with guilt. And money can make…

— Rajneesh