To know the great men dead is compensation for having to live with the mediocre. — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
The Culture of Complaint... We live in a culture of complaint because everyone is always looking for things to complain about. It's… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
The tax that is taken from the free non-Muslim subjects of a Muslim government whereby they ratify the compact that assures them… — Edward William Lane Copy Share Image
When institutions are endowed to train women for all departments connected with the family state, domestic labor, now so shunned and disgraced,… — Catharine Beecher Copy Share Image
The major tragedies in life, there's just no compensation. But the minor ones you can always write about. It's my way of… — Octavia E. Butler Copy Share Image
Clyde Phillip Wachsberger's delightful memoir about tending beds of flowers as compensation for a lonely middle age only to find unexpected romance… — Philip Gambone Copy Share Image
... though a dealer in meat, groceries, and other food stuffs may obtain compensation if his wares are wilfully misrepresented to the… — Marie Corelli Copy Share Image
Money is ultimately not enough compensation for investing your time and energy: there has to be a sense of purpose, meaning and… — Dan Miller Copy Share Image
Recognition for a job well done is high on the list of motivating influences for all people; more important in many instances… — John Moulder Wilson Copy Share Image
Such a structure would also raise a number of problems: first of all, which Timorese to pay compensation to? It would open… — Jose Ramos-Horta Copy Share Image
I've never seen an obese person who has said, 'I am well in my mind.' Happiness stops food being a compensation. — Pierre Dukan Copy Share Image
The most awkward means are adequate to the communication of authentic experience, and the finest words no compensation for lack of it.… — Ananda Coomaraswamy Copy Share Image
Gardening has compensations out of all proportion to its goals. It is creation in the pure sense. — Phyllis McGinley Copy Share Image
As a boy,I was extremely shy, certainly as a result of my upbringing. I was an expert blusher,and some of my harsh… — Gunter Brus Copy Share Image
In India the government is very chaotic and poorly run. They are forced into action by public pressure. When it's a larger… — Karan Mahajan Copy Share Image
It is cheap generosity which promises the future in compensation for the present. — J. A. Spender Copy Share Image
Banks have come to realize in the recent crisis that they are paying the price for having designed compensation packages which provide… — Mervyn King Copy Share Image
“The Workers Compensation system for occupational diseases is a government con for the vast majority of applicants.” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
Now if you ask me, in conclusion, "Well, what, then should properly be done?" Obviously war, but I mean in regard to… — Leonard Peikoff Copy Share Image
History provides neither compensation for suffering nor penalties for wrong. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Wherever indeed a right of property is infringed for the general good, if the nature of the case admits of compensation, it… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
People are looking back and trying to, you know, get compensation for bad mortgages and all the rest of it in some… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
Cap the well, yes. Clear up the mess, yes. Make compensation - yes, absolutely. But would it be right to have legislation… — David Cameron Copy Share Image
God never promises exemption. He does promise companionship, which is better. He does not promise do deliver you or me or any… — Daniel A. Poling Copy Share Image
We never know through what Divine mysteries of compensation the great Father of the universe may be carrying out His sublime plan;… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Copy Share Image
