Power must be used, but it must be tempered by soul-searching and the recognition of our human capacity for error. That is… — Eliot Spitzer Copy Share Image
The greatest good suffering can do for me is to increase my capacity for God. — Joni Eareckson Tada Copy Share Image
A human’s love. I couldn’t wish anything better for him. Animals protect what they know. They protect what they are bound to,… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
The whole Twitter phenomenon is really indicative of what's happening in this country. And I say this in condemnation of myself as… — Kurt Sutter Copy Share Image
Behind the contained and orderly lives we lead as members of the respectable middle class there's a terrible human capacity that may… — Diana Trilling Copy Share Image
There must, whether the gods see it or not, be something great in the mortal soul. For suffering, it seems, is infinite,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
People always underestimate the ability of earth to increase its carrying capacity. — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
In my capacity as a board member of the OfS, I hope to be impartial, objective, and fair. — Toby Young Copy Share Image
I wanted to be involved in TV and film in some capacity, so a compromise, because acting seemed unrealistic, and so risky,… — Wentworth Miller Copy Share Image
Politicians generally form alliances and not friendships. Individuals and institutions achieve their ends through continual barter. But deals are not bonds. Indeed,… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
When I was younger, I used to wrestle, and I feel that it contributed to my athletic ability because as a wrestler… — Dhani Jones Copy Share Image
When plugged in, the least elaborate computer can be relied on to work to the fullest extent of its capacity. The greatest… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
The anniversary of Hiroshima, should be a day of somber reflection, not only on the terrible events of that day in 1945,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
What we need is what the ancient Israelites called hochma - the science of the heart...the capacity to see, to feel, and… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
If, therefore, there is any one superior in virtue and in the power of performing the best actions, him we ought to… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
I feel like human beings can't help but destroy, but if our numbers are small we don't destroy as much as we… — Melissa Holbrook Pierson Copy Share Image
My capacity for humour may have come largely from my father - he liked to entertain people, make people laugh. — Morris Gleitzman Copy Share Image
All the evidence of history suggests that man is indeed a rational animal, but with a near infinite capacity for folly. .… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Compassion is ethical intelligence: it is the capacity to make connections and the consequent urge to act to relieve the suffering of… — Will Tuttle Copy Share Image
I've always had to train harder than others to get the oxygen to my muscles because of my lung capacity. I have… — Charlie White Copy Share Image
The lawyers' contribution to the civilizing of humanity is evidenced in the capacity of lawyers to argue furiously in the courtroom, then… — John Silber Copy Share Image
Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock. — Alvin Toffler Copy Share Image
Your emotional capacity is an empty motor, and your values are the fuel with which your mind fills it. If you choose… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The most gifted members of the human species are at their creative best when they cannot have their way, and must compensate… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
