It is an old custom of these people to pick up a stone and toss it on the pile. Perhaps it is… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
Roman, remember that you shall rule the nations by your authority, for this is to be your skill, to make peace the… — Virgil Copy Share Image
Last year, customs officials screened only five percent of the 11 million cargo containers entering the United States. That rate is both… — Allyson Schwartz Copy Share Image
That wild beast which lives in man and does not dare to show itself until the barriers of law and custom have… — Ivo Andric Copy Share Image
We make our customs lightly; once made, like our sins, they grip us in bands of steel; we become the creatures of… — Charles W. Chesnutt Copy Share Image
A man who's active and incisive can yet keep nail-care much in mind: why fight what's known to be decisive? Custom is… — Alexander Pushkin Copy Share Image
If you are curious, you won't be satisfied with the "tyranny of custom." People stuck in that rut might say "why?" and… — John Medina Copy Share Image
By Anglicising ourselves we have thrown away with a light heart the best claim we have upon the world's recognition of us… — Douglas Hyde Copy Share Image
The Indian community in Canada has integrated much better than the Indian community in United States. They've become really Canadian at the… — Azim Premji Copy Share Image
We are citizens of an age, as well as of a State; and if it is held to be unseemly, or even… — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
I DECLARE I am special and extraordinary. I am not average! I have been custom-made. I am one of a kind. Of… — Joel Osteen Copy Share Image
The Talmud is to this day the circulating heart's blood of the Jewish religion. Whatever laws, customs or ceremonies we observe-whether we… — Herman Wouk Copy Share Image
What has been imposed on religion is not religion itself but the custom of those who have been converted to it. I… — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
All men are partially buried inthe grave of custom, and of some we see only the crown of the head above ground.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
When I came in from Paris recently, for some reason the guy from customs wanted to know what kind of music I… — Fiona Apple Copy Share Image
Everything was leveled, there were no extremes of joy or sorrow any more but only habit, routine, ancient family names and rites… — Anne Tyler Copy Share Image
Free thought means fearless thought. It is not deterred by legal penalties, nor by spiritual consequences. Dissent from the Bible does not… — George Holyoake Copy Share Image
Good and Evil are names that signify our appetites and aversions, which in different tempers, customs, and doctrines of men, are different:… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
In his Philosophy of Style, Herbert Spencer gives two sentences to illustrate how the vague and general can be turned into the… — William Strunk, Jr Copy Share Image
We set up a certain aim, and put ourselves of our own will into the power of a certain current. Once having… — Anna Brackett Copy Share Image
If rulers learn to undervalue the lives of their own subjects by the custom of war, how much more do they undervalue… — Noah Worcester Copy Share Image
There is always in the healthy mind an obscure prompting that religion teaches us rather to dig than to climb; that if… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Love is only surpassing sweet when it is directed toward a mortal object, and the secret of this ultimate sweetness only is… — Franz Rosenzweig Copy Share Image
When you get older, you realize something: all those stupid mores and customs related to how a man should comport himself in… — Jason Mulgrew Copy Share Image
I must confess I am a fop in my heart; ill customs influence my very senses, and I have been so used… — George Etherege Copy Share Image
Freedom is where you can live, as pleases a brave heart; where you can live according to the customs and laws of… — Ernst Moritz Arndt Copy Share Image
What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or their lack of imagination. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Only the scenario writers are exempt. These are tied between the tails of two spirited Caucasian ponies, which are then driven off… — S. J. Perelman Copy Share Image
I got to travel to some pretty awesome places, learn other people's customs, and see what works in their world differently than… — Harris Faulkner Copy Share Image
We have a pride of who we are as Latinos, regardless if we're Puerto Rican, Dominican, Venezuelan, and we're very proud of… — Juan Luis Guerra Copy Share Image
You cannot attain # mastery by patterning yourself after another or by following custom or tradition. Sheep do that. Masters and leaders… — Roger McDonald Copy Share Image
The requirements of health, and the style of female attire which custom enjoins, are in direct antagonism to each other. — Abba Louisa Goold Woolson Copy Share Image
Ordinary Geiger counters, worn on belt clips and resembling pagers, have been in use by the U.S. Customs Service for years. — Barton Gellman Copy Share Image
At UCLA I quickly learned the knack of getting grades, a craven surrender to custom, since grades had little to do with… — Hugh Nibley Copy Share Image
The slaves of custom and established mode, With pack-horse constancy we keep the road Crooked or straight, through quags or thorny dells,… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
So what if your custom car shop tanks and you've gotta take a crappy job at an auto parts store, dealing with… — Christopher Titus Copy Share Image
It is necessary to obey a Pope in all things as long as he does not go against the universal customs of… — Pope Innocent III Copy Share Image
Custom ... changes the very nature of things; and what was honorable a thousand years ago, may probably be looked upon as… — Charlotte Lennox Copy Share Image
But it was ever thus, all through my life: whenever I have diverged from custom and principle and uttered a truth, the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Widowhood imposed by religion or custom is an unbearable yoke and defiles the home by secret vice and degrades religion. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
