Whether happiness or unhappiness, freedom or slavery, in short whether good or evil results from an improved environment depends largely upon how… — David Lilienthal Copy Share Image
Thy pride is but the prologue of thy shame; where vain-glory commands, there folly counsels; where pride rides, there shame lackeys. — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
Being in command means making tough decisions. Not being in command means shutting up and doing what you're told. --Artemis Fowl — Eoin Colfer Copy Share Image
If a tornado twists at 175 miles an hour and stays on the ground like a massive lawnmower for 50 miles, God… — John Piper Copy Share Image
Realizing how often ingenious speculation in the complex biological world has led nowhere and how often the real advances in biology as… — Thomas Hunt Morgan Copy Share Image
Though her mien carries much more invitation than command, to behold her is an immediate check to loose behaviour; to love her… — Richard Steele Copy Share Image
The use of literature is to afford us a platform whence we may command a view of our present life, a purchase… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A new and valid idea is worth more than a regiment and fewer men can furnish the former than command the latter. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
God is not naïve in the giving of His laws; He anticipates our disobedience even as He commands our obedience. — Max Anders Copy Share Image
Denotation by means of sounds and markings is a remarkable abstraction. Three letters designate God for me; several lines a million things.… — Novalis Copy Share Image
There is no surer mark of a low and unregenerate nature than this tendency of power to loudness and wantonness instead of… — James Martineau Copy Share Image
It must be splendid to command millions of people in great national ventures, to lead a hundred thousand to victory in battle.… — Ludwig Boltzmann Copy Share Image
As I understand it, laws, commands, rules and edicts are for those who have not the light which makres plain the pathway. — Anne Hutchinson Copy Share Image
This topic brings me to that worst outcrop of herd life, the military system, which I abhor... This plague-spot of civilization ought… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
On limestone quarried near the spot By his command these words are cut: Cast a cold eye On life, on death. Horseman,… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
Old trees in their living state are the only things that money cannot command. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
The way to subject all things to thyself is to subject thyself to reason; thou shalt govern many, if reason govern thee.… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
Law has the power to compel: indeed, the ability to enforce is a condition of the ability to command. — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
There is in every animal's eye a dim image and gleam of humanity, a flash of strange light through which their life… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Nature rejects the monarch, not the man; the subject, not the citizen... The man of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys. — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
The leader should know how to enter into evil when necessity commands. — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
Christ wants not nibblers of the possible, but grabbers of the impossible, by faith in the omnipotence, fidelity, and wisdom of the… — Charles Studd Copy Share Image
Many aspects of our screen-bound lives are bad for our social skills simply because we get accustomed to controlling the information that… — Lynne Truss Copy Share Image
