All who have been great and good without Christianity would have been much greater and better with it. If there be, amongst… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
I looked at all friends, and did not find a better friend than safeguarding the tongue. I thought about all dresses, but… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Nicias, do you think you can erase with good deeds the wrongs you committed against your mother? What good deed will ever… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
When you enlisted into the armed forces you swore to support and defend a Constitution that did not yet fully apply to… — David Petraeus Copy Share Image
The judgment: You are now before Yama, King of the Dead. In vain will you try to...deny or conceal the evil deeds… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
It is what the poets of Ireland used to be saying, that every brave man, good at fighting, and every man that… — Lady Gregory Copy Share Image
There are two tendencies in all our war talk… The first is to boast, if not of ourselves and our deeds, at… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
I knew many Marines had done brave deeds that no one saw and for which they got no medals at all. I… — Karl Marlantes Copy Share Image
Our words, like our deeds, should be filled with faith and hope and charity, the three great Christian imperatives so desperately needed… — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image
Authenticity is an alignment between your beliefs, your desires and your choices in the world. Desires change throughout the course of a… — David Simon Copy Share Image
Silence,they say,is the voice of complicity. But silence is impossible. Silence screams. Silence is the message,just as doing nothing is an act.… — Leonard Peltier Copy Share Image
Courage is a heart word. The root of the word courage is cor - the Latin word for heart. In one of… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
Nothing is more contagious than example, and no man does any exceeding good or exceeding ill but it spawns new deeds of… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
All humans are dead except those who have knowledge; and all those who have knowledge are asleep, except those who do good… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is for us to discharge the high duties that devolve on us, and carry our race onward. To be no better,… — William Lloyd Garrison Copy Share Image
Power is violence, its promise, its deed. Power cares nothing for reason, nothing for justice, nothing for compassion. It is, in fact,… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
When indeed shall we learn that we are all related one to the other, that we are all members of one body?… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
Another last-minute, good-deed job,” Royce grumbled as he stuffed supplies into his saddlebag. “True,” Hadrian said, slinging his sword belt over his… — Michael J. Sullivan Copy Share Image
I know from my own experience as a parent that parents probably teach most powerfully not through their words but through their… — Samuel Alito Copy Share Image
As thou these ashes, little brook, wilt bear Into the Avon, Avon to the tide Of Severn, Severn to the narrow seas,… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
It ought not to be unpleasant to say that which one honestly believes or disbelieves. That it so constantly is painful to… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
In a world where success is the measure and justification of all things the figure of Him who was sentenced and crucified… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Whatever may be your desire to accomplish great deeds, the deep silence of pregnancy never comes to you! The event of the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I assert most unhesitatingly, that the religion of the South is a mere covering for the most horrid crimes—a justifier of the… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
Opposition to God and His Christ, opposition to light and truth has existed since the beginning to the present day. This is… — Wilford Woodruff Copy Share Image
Every one may know that to will and not to do, when there is opportunity, is in reality not to will; and… — Emanuel Swedenborg Copy Share Image
The charming landscape which I saw this morning is indubitably made up of some twenty or thirty farms. Miller owns this field,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Act! the wise are known by their actions; fame and immortality are ever their attendants. Mark with deeds the vanishing traces of… — Johann Gaudenz von Salis-Seewis Copy Share Image
Our words must be judged by our deeds; and in striving for a lofty ideal we must use practical methods; and if… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
In the process of gaining our rightful place, we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
What a person says and does in ordinary moments when when no one is looking reveals more about true character than grand… — Michael Josephson Copy Share Image
Fire and water do not mix, neither can you mix judgment of others with the desire to repent. If a man commits… — John Climacus Copy Share Image
Forgetfulness, the unhistorical, is ... the atmosphere, in which alone life can come into being. In order to understand it, let us… — Georg Brandes Copy Share Image
As life in general constituted much pain in the form of struggles against poverty, disease, ignorance, and emotional anguish, what more civilized… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Things severed shall be united and shall acquire of themselves such virtue that they shall restore to men their lost memory: -… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
The ancients had a taste, let us say rather a passion, for the marvellous, which caused ... grouping together the lofty deeds… — Francois Arago Copy Share Image
Most people think of love as some sort of power outside of themselves that will "take them away from all of this."… — John Templeton Copy Share Image
The very best way in all the world to overcome self-consciousn ess and shyness is to get interested in other people and… — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
Well, it was most likely too late; there would not be time for me to flagellate myself for every dishonorable deed in… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
I’m such an idiot - the thing was I was in there because this homeless guy was hungry. I went past and… — Sophie Monk Copy Share Image
