The fact that we have not had a terrorist attack in this country in the last six years is not a cause… — Michael Chertoff Copy Share Image
Affairs can be powerful detonators. They can invigorate a marriage that's flat, jolt people out of years of complacency. Fear of loss… — Esther Perel Copy Share Image
She'd always had such contempt for mundanes, the way all Shadowhunters did--she'd believed that they were soft, stupid, sheeplike in their complacency.… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
“Pride is a very common failing, I believe. By all that I have ever read, I am convinced that it is very… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
The world, as we know it, is coming to an end. The world as the center of the universe, the world divided… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
It is our duty to give meaning to the life of future generations by sharing our knowledge and experience; by teaching an… — Paul Bocuse Copy Share Image
The newspaper headlines may shout about global warming, extinctions of living species, the devastation of rain forests, and other worldwide catastrophes, but… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
The power of a bold idea uttered publicly in defiance of dominant opinion cannot be easily measured. Those special people who speak… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“A person is not like a thing that you put down in one place and leave, a person moves, thinks, asks, questions,… — José Saramago Copy Share Image
“Sometimes Coriolanus wondered if the debris had been left there to remind the citizens of what they had endured. People had short… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
As one recalls some of the monstrous situations under which human beings have lived and live their lives, one marvels at man's… — George Amos Dorsey Copy Share Image
I'm from the American West. We have forest fires out there. And some of the worst forest fires in our history, the… — James Mattis Copy Share Image
Complaisance, though in itself it be scarce reckoned in the number of moral virtues, is that which gives a lustre to every… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
There comes a time, there comes a time in the history of nations when fear and complacency allow power to accumulate and… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
Every person in the world is by nature a slave to sin. The world, by nature, is held in sin's grip. What… — Joel Beeke Copy Share Image
The pleasure of a good act is something to be remembered - not in order to feed our complacency but in order… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Courage consists, however, in agreeing to flee rather than live tranquilly and hypocritically in false refuges. Values, morals, homelands, religions, and these… — Gilles Deleuze Copy Share Image
Like an unexpected wet mop in the face of tired complacency, The Sovereignty Solution works on the receptive mind as a pry… — Adam Garfinkle Copy Share Image
One of the greatest foes of the Christian is religious complacency.. Orthodox Christianity has fallen to its present low estate from lack… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
I have been fortunate to have been brought up on a diet of adventure and privileged to take part in number of… — Pete Goss Copy Share Image
“I wouldn't want [the people of Baleyworld] to live that long as a general thing. The pace of historical and intellectual advance… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Love...no such thing. Whatever it is that binds families and married couples together, that's not love. That's stupidity or selfishness or fear.… — Arthur Rimbaud Copy Share Image
By neglecting our garden, we are storing up for ourselves, in the not very distant future, a world catastrophe as bad as… — Gerald Durrell Copy Share Image
Experiments in the visual arts (the invention of new ways of seeing things), are made because, due to the way the apparatus… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
“It’s a fallacy that this generation does not know how to love as its predecessor did. Truth of the matter is, modern… — Lebo Grand Copy Share Image
Christians are as subject to complacency as anybody else, and we can certainly settle into repetition and forget that something radical and… — Francis Spufford Copy Share Image
It is in the nature of political bodies always to see the evil in the opposite group, just as the individual has… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Nothing about his life is more strange to [man] or more unaccountable in purely mundane terms than the stirrings he finds in… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
The benevolent have the advantage of the envious, even in this present life; for the envious man is tormented not only by… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
One of the deep fundamentals of poetry is the recurrence of sounds, syllables, words, phrases, lines, and stanzas. Repetition can be one… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
it is so difficult not to become vain about one's own good luck. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Of all the things a leader should fear, complacency heads the list. — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
The great menace to the life of an industry is industrial self-complacency. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Many people find spiritual growth possible only when times are hard; prosperity tends to promote complacency. — Max Anders Copy Share Image
A son could bear with great complacency, the death of his father, while the loss of his inheritance might drive him to… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
The world needs Christians who don't tolerate the complacency of their own lives. — Francis Chan Copy Share Image
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