This is the day when people reciprocally offer, and receive, the kindest and the warmest wishes, though, in general, without meaning them… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Only by being permitted to experience the consequences of his actions will the child acquire a sense of responsibility; and within the… — Robert M. Lindner Copy Share Image
Maybe a first love exists to reaffirm the best parts of yourself, the choices you made when you didn't worry about the… — Adriana Trigiani Copy Share Image
It seems that if you put people on paper and move them through time, you cannot help but talk about ethics, because… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
Adversity is a crossroads that makes a person choose one of two paths: character or compromise. Every time he chooses character, he… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
And you can claim whatever you want to of being pro-life or pro- choice, but the right to a abortion is not… — Sam Brownback Copy Share Image
“I decree and I declare that I am not a raw material but rather a finished product. God knows me and knows… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
If we did not have a patent system, it would be irresponsible, on the basis of our present knowledge of its economic… — Fritz Machlup Copy Share Image
Private choices are not private; they all have public consequences...Our society is the sum total of what millions of individuals do in… — James E. Faust Copy Share Image
The banishment for life of Pete Rose from baseball is a sad end if a sorry episode. One of the game's greatest… — A. Bartlett Giamatti Copy Share Image
It is vital for officials and regulators to have input from people within our businesses who understand the intricacies of how financial… — Jamie Dimon Copy Share Image
We must note carefully what distinction there is between a healthy and a diseased love of change; for as it was in… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
The good photograph is not the object, the consequences of the photograph are the objects. So that no one would say, how… — Dorothea Lange Copy Share Image
Indeed, one of the most frightening consequences of the Holocaust may well be that rather than serving as a warning to preserve… — Omer Bartov Copy Share Image
One of the consequences of the Iranian revolution has been an explosion of history. A country once known only from British consular… — James Buchan Copy Share Image
The ultimate law of language is, dare we say, that nothing can ever reside in a single term. This is a direct… — Ferdinand de Saussure Copy Share Image
When I was young I asked more of people than they could give: everlasting friendship, endless feeling. Now I know to ask… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Accounting consequences do not influence our operating or capital-allocation decisions. When acquisition costs are similar, we much prefer to purchase $2 of… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
But here is the heart of the moral issue for many of us. Simply put, those around the world who have contributed… — Jim Wallis Copy Share Image
Bargains are the holy grail of the true stockpicker. The fact that 10 to 30 percent of our net worth is lost… — Peter Lynch Copy Share Image
If children have an interest in nature, they will understand. I want them to become people who appreciate the consequences the next… — Tamae Watanabe Copy Share Image
So enormous, so dreadful, so irremediable did the [slave] trade's wickedness appear that my own mind was completely made up for abolition.… — William Wilberforce Copy Share Image
Self satisfaction alone cannot determine if a desire or action is positive or negative. The demarcation between a positive and a negative… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In the wake of the housing debacle in California, more people are buying less expensive homes, making bigger down payments, and staying… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Any onset of increased investor caution elevates risk premiums and, as a consequence, lowers asset values and promotes the liquidation of the… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
If there were no belief in god, if such a truth were ever realized, then their would be no fear of consequence.… — Eddie Russo Copy Share Image
When you look at the consequences of climate change, at rainforest deforestation, at antibiotic resistance, these are not necessarily political issues, but… — Moby Copy Share Image
Some of the most wonderful aspects and consequences of evolution have been discovered only recently. This is in stark contrast to creationism,… — Bill Nye Copy Share Image
When all actions are used for feedback, the consequence of making mistakes will be a corrective and appropriate response, because everything everybody… — Erik Naggum Copy Share Image
But that night as I drove back to Montreal, I at least discovered this: that there is no simple explanation for anything… — Hugh MacLennan Copy Share Image
The North Korean regime remains one of the world's leading proliferator of missile technology, including transfers to Iran and Syria. The transfer… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Each time I visit such a classroom, where the teacher is more interested in creating a democratic community than in maintaining her… — Alfie Kohn Copy Share Image
There's no question that Stalin broke the agreements made at Yalta completely about elections that were supposed to be held immediately in… — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
For almost a century, the Universe has been known to be expanding as a consequence of the Big Bang about 14 billion… — Saul Perlmutter Copy Share Image
There are many good reasons to fear a nuclear Iran, but also many good reasons to fear the consequences of launching a… — Doug Bandow Copy Share Image
If we were immortal, then life would be meaningless, because nothing would be of consequence. Certainly one way of taking the edge… — Sheldon Solomon Copy Share Image
[My father] would be proud, he would hug me and he would be sitting front-row at all the events where I talk… — Juan Pablo Escobar Copy Share Image
No country can be called free which is governed by an absolute power; and it matters not whether it be an absolute… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
I would hazard the statement that in the broad sense [Ho Chi Minh's] ideas had triumphed, since the communist victory in Vietnam… — William J. Duiker Copy Share Image
This is great art, we've been told this by the great pundits of our age. And in consequence why should we bother… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image