The masculine imagination lives in a state of perpetual revolt against the limitations of human life. In theological terms, one might say… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: 'War is bad in that it begets more evil… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Possibly my hatred of war blinds me so that I cannot comprehend the arguments they adduce. But, in my opinion, there is… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
There is so much about the process of writing that is mysterious to me, but this one thing I've found to be… — Dorianne Laux Copy Share Image
So I feel like success is opportunity plus preparation, so work begets work, and as long as you're prepared it's going to… — Anthony Mackie Copy Share Image
All of the elements of the comic way tend to spread to others, insinuating joy where it was previously absent. Conversation has… — Joseph Rusling Meeker Copy Share Image
Creating harmony amidst diversity is a fundamental issue of the twenty-first century. While celebrating the unique characteristics of different peoples and cultures,… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
It is with a pious fraud as with a bad action; it begets a calamitous necessity of going on. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
I do think that failure begets success sometimes, but it's often looked upon in Hollywood as not a good thing. — John Kapelos Copy Share Image
I realized that work doesnt beget work. Good work begets work. So I got a lot more patient and stopped worrying about… — Brady Corbet Copy Share Image
In matters of science, curiosity gratified begets not indolence, but new desires. — James Hutton Copy Share Image
That extremes beget extremes is an apothegm built on the most profound observation of the human mind. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Honor bespeaks worth. Confidence begets trust. Service brings satisfaction. Cooperation proves the quality of leadership. — James Cash Penney Copy Share Image
Idleness begets ennui, ennui the hypochondriac, and that a diseased body. No laborious person was ever yet hysterical. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Nature is capable of building complex structures by processes of self-organization; simplicity begets complexity. — Victor J. Stenger Copy Share Image
Here's a very good rule of thumb in politics: losing begets losing. — John Podhoretz Copy Share Image
The crossroads of trade are the meeting place of ideas, the attrition ground of rival customs and beliefs; diversities beget conflict, comparison,… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
It is not easy for a person to do any great harm when his tenure of office is short, whereas long possession… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“The lover drinks and the cup-bearer pours. The lover thinks but the cup-bearer knows: love begets love. Since this wine is love,… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
To suggest that war can prevent war is a base play on words and a despicable form of warmongering. The objective of… — Ralph Bunche Copy Share Image
Books never pall on me. They discourse with us, they take counsel with us, and are united to us by a certain… — Petrarch Copy Share Image
Well aware that the opinions and belief of men depend not on their own will, but follow involuntarily the evidence proposed to… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
