There is no illusion so permanent as that which enables us to look backward with complacency; there is no mental process so… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
My love has taken me for granted, complacency is her name and she has grown comfortably thanks to my blanket of hope… — Nader H 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
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
“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
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
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
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
I believe the root of all happiness on this earth to lie in the realization of a spiritual life with a consciousness… — Hugh Walpole Copy Share Image
“We've always done it this way" is invalid when that way hasn't led to more life, greater growth, or maximum efficiency. Take… — Aaron W. Matthews Copy Share Image
“Finding ways to appreciate advances without embracing complacency is a delicate task. It involves being hopeful and motivated and keeping eyes on… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
I think there's a tremendous sense of complacency in the LGBT community. AIDS has lost the edge of horror it possessed when… — Zachary Quinto Copy Share Image
So sometimes things are ahead and sometimes they are behind; Sometimes breathing is hard, sometimes it comes easily; Sometimes there is strength… — Laozi Copy Share Image
“When you're used to having nothing, nothing becomes your everything, and you never really want for anything. But it's a double-edged sword,… — Isaac Hooke Copy Share Image
The final test of religious faith... is whether it will enable men to endure insecurity without complacency or despair, whether it can… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
I wonder how many marriages are fractured and damaged beyond repair by complacency rather than any single traumatic event. One day you… — Tracey Garvis-Graves Copy Share Image
One thing is certain: the arts keep you alive. They stimulate, encourage, challenge, and, most of all, guarantee a future free from… — Vincent Price Copy Share Image
“Do not be complacent about your achievements and not to strive for continual improvement when you get to the top. As soon… — Roy T. Bennett Copy Share Image
From long familiarity, we know what honor is. It is what enables the individual to do right in the face of complacency… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
The hole in the ozone layer is a kind of skywriting. At first it seemed to spell out our continuing complacency before… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
When I earned my diploma from the University of Virginia in the spring of 2000, it never occurred to me before my… — Kim Brooks Copy Share Image
Only the man who has had to face despair is really convinced that he needs mercy. Those who do not want mercy… — Thomas Merton 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
Nothing can tend so much to humble us before the mercy and justice of God as the consideration of His benefits and… — Francis of Assisi 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 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
“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
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
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
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
The smug complacency of technology adverts disguises a pretty mixed picture, with too many people not connected, too many passive users of… — Geoff Mulgan Copy Share Image
Apocalypse does not point to a fiery Armageddon but to the fact that our ignorance and our complacency are coming to an… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Liberty is lost through complacency and a subservient mindset. When we accept or even welcome automobile checkpoints, random searches, mandatory identification cards,… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
The Americans, on the contrary, are fond of explaining almost all the actions of their lives by the principle of interest rightly… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
I love the horror genre. I consider myself a genre filmmaker. I love genre, but I think there's a certain amount of… — Ari Aster Copy Share Image
Often we hate in others the thing which we fear in ourselves; or we hate because the other person raises to our… — Frances G. Wickes Copy Share Image
I enjoy turning things on the audience. I really like working in genre because people come into the films with certain expectations.… — Ari Aster Copy Share Image
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