A noble and God-like character is not a thing of favor or chance, but is the natural result of continued effort in… — James Allen Copy Share Image
The painting world is awash with people who cannot paint. This is a condition that would not be tolerated in other professions… — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
There is a common theme, though, in the stories I have told, which are usually associations of characters or families that are… — Gus Van Sant Copy Share Image
The people who worked in comics were terrific guys. I had a good association with them, and I enjoyed comics for that… — Jack Kirby Copy Share Image
Cooper was my road roommate, and also happened to be the first African American player drafted by a National Basketball Association team. — Bob Cousy Copy Share Image
If you chose to serve in Congress or on a congressional staff, you should be barred for life from working for any… — Jack Abramoff Copy Share Image
In central banking as in diplomacy, style, conservative tailoring, and an easy association with the affluent count greatly and results far much… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
American Psychological Association, the girlie-girl culture’s emphasis on beauty and play-sexiness can increase girls’ vulnerability to the pitfalls that most concern parents:… — Peggy Orenstein Copy Share Image
What were the relations between the Jews and the secret societies? That is not easy to elucidate, for we lack reliable evidence.… — Bernard Lazare Copy Share Image
As a teenager, my father took me to the shows at the Architectural Association and to places like Milton Keynes back when… — Thomas Heatherwick Copy Share Image
In fact, it's the greatest threat to liberty of all kinds, whether it is freedom of religion, whether it is freedom of… — Bryan Fischer Copy Share Image
My private tragedy, which cannot, and indeed should not, be anybody's concern, is that I had to abandon my natural idiom, my… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
I was a geek who thought I was cool. I didn't hang out with a particular clique, but with different people from… — Chester Bennington Copy Share Image
Civil Society is a cluster of institutions and associations strong enough to prevent tyranny, but which are, none the less, entered and… — Ernest Gellner Copy Share Image
No matter how you care to define it, I do not identify with the local group. Planet, species, race, nation, state, religion,… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
“Oh, child. The world is monstrous at times, and there are those who would have you believe that you are terrible by… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
Laughter lifts our spirits, surprises and sometime shocks our expectations, allows us to cross boundaries, reorders our priorities, and gives us access… — Jean Houston Copy Share Image
From some dilatory reading in the early 1960s, I knew enough about viruses and their association with tumors in animals to understand… — Harold E. Varmus Copy Share Image
But I am sure also that from a political point of view, and from a social point of view the federal link,… — Aristide Briand Copy Share Image
What matters in modern music is not the part you can write down, the words and the tune, but the rest -… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
Don't be afraid of losing a little power in daily associations. People who seek power and knowledge aren't misers. They aren't afraid.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
There is something good about the character of Gomez. I wouldn't trade the association with him for anything or any role that… — John Astin Copy Share Image
The key factor is whether the agent is a member of the Association of Authors' Representatives, which screens its members and requires… — Richard Curtis Copy Share Image
If you remember only one thing I've said, remember that an idea is a feat of association, and the height of it… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
The Americans make associations to give entertainment, to found seminaries, to build inns, to construct churches, to diffuse books, to send missionaries… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
When this is all over I'm going to found an association called 'The Knights of the Idiotic Table' and its purpose will… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Government originated in the attempt to find a form of association that defends and protects the person and property of each with… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Officially, MPAA stands for Motion Picture Association of America, but I suggest that MPAA stands for Malicious Power Attacking All. — Richard Stallman Copy Share Image
An imbalanced association is when one or both parties become abusive and takes unfair advantage, tries to block another's enlightenment or success. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
And it is characteristic of man that he alone has any sense of good and evil, of just and unjust, and the… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
To find a pool of lawyers from whom to choose, solicit referrals from other professionals you know or deal with - an… — Laura Wasser Copy Share Image
Yet what you need is not marches, demonstrations, rallies or wide associations, all of them are important. What you need is direct… — Arthur Scargill Copy Share Image
I made you take time to look at what I saw and when you took time to really notice my flower, you… — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
Will is nothing more than a particular case of the general doctrine of association of ideas, and therefore a perfectly mechanical thing. — Joseph Priestley Copy Share Image
“Keep negative people long meters away from you; their presence is a threat to your high self-esteem! Job, the man of God… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
The more a man acts on his own, the more he develops himself. In large associations he is too prone to become… — Wilhelm von Humboldt Copy Share Image
The difference between an interesting and a tedious teacher consists in little more than the inventiveness by which the one is able… — William James Copy Share Image
Charles Burchfield was exceptional. As such an accomplished artist, he had limited previous association with academia and teaching. — Paul Smith Copy Share Image
In all societies, it is advisable to associate if possible with the highest; not that the highest are always the best, but… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
In place of the old bourgeois society, with its classes and class antagonisms, we shall have an association in which the free… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
