One bleeding-heart type asked me in a recent interview if I did not agree that 'violence begets violence.' I told him that… — Jeff Cooper Copy Share Image
I realized that work doesn't beget work. Good work begets work. So I got a lot more patient and stopped worrying about… — Brady Corbet Copy Share Image
For love is a flattering mischief, that hath denied aged and wise men a foresight of those evils that too often prove… — Izaak Walton Copy Share Image
Reaching toward perfection in any one thing should lift us higher in all things; it should beget a habit of application and… — Julia McNair Wright Copy Share Image
It is the surgeon’s duty to tranquillize the temper, to beget cheerfulness, and to impart confidence of recovery. — Astley Cooper Copy Share Image
Every baby born unloved, unwanted, is a bill that will come due in twenty years with interest, an anger that must find… — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
Complaining begets more complaints. Anger begets more anger. And optimism begets more optimism. — Simon Sinek Copy Share Image
Honor begets honor; trust begets trust; faith begets faith; and hope is the mainspring of life. — Henry L. Stimson Copy Share Image
Riches naturally beget pride, love of the world, and every temper that is destructive of Christianity. — John Wesley Copy Share Image
Not being busy is something I worry about, but I think work begets work. — Dominic Monaghan Copy Share Image
Acting is doing. The more you do, the more you learn. Work begets work. — Sarah Paulson Copy Share Image
They who once engage in iniquitous designs miserably deceive themselves when they think that they will go so far and no farther;… — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
The mightier man, the mightier is the thing That makes him honored or begets him hate; For greatest scandal waits on greatest… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, violence begets violence. And this is how the war on terrorism seems to be going at this juncture. A lot of… — Shirin Ebadi Copy Share Image
Hate begets hate; violence begets violence; toughness begets a greater toughness. We must meet the forces of hate with the power of… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
You'll call me damned Jew, a Christ murderer, a secret worshipper of pigs and a kidnapper of Christian children. How absurd! Who… — Bernard Cornwell Copy Share Image
The Christian religion is derogatory to the Creator in all its articles. It puts the Creator in an inferior point of view,… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Good poetry does undoubtedly tend to form the soul and character; it tends to beget a love of beauty and of truth… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
It is in this matter that I fall foul of so many American writers on writing; they seem to think that writing… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
I think trauma gets a reductive treatment. We tend to think only violence or molestation or total abandonment qualify as "childhood trauma,"… — Melissa Febos Copy Share Image
