Mixed dinner parties of ladies and gentlemenare very rare, which is a great defect in the society; not only as depriving themof… — Frances Trollope Copy Share Image
When Alekhine recognizes the weakness in his position he has a tendency to become very aggressive. Patient defence is not for him… — Emanuel Lasker Copy Share Image
Rarest of all things on earth is the union in which both, by their contrasts, make harmonious their blending; each supplying the… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
A good father. A man with a head, a heart, and a soul. A man capable of listening, of leading and respecting… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
But though Usury is in itself immoral, and justly condemned by every ethical code, its chief and worst defect in the particular… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
All the defects are obstacles that anchors the mind to the external senses. — Samael Aun Weor Copy Share Image
It is human defect — to try to know oneself by the self of another. — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
Simplicity is a pleasant thing in children, or at any age, butit is not necessarily admirable, nor is affectation altogether a thing… — Charles Horton Cooley Copy Share Image
A fatal defect in majority rule is that by its very nature it abolishes itself. Majority rule must inevitably become minority rule:… — Mary Parker Follett Copy Share Image
We are made ridiculous less by our defects than by the affectation of qualities which are not ours. — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
So I'm half deaf - and dyslexic. How about that? Nobody's perfect, and I'm proud of my defects. — Carmen Busquets Copy Share Image
Philosophy has often attempted to repress insolence by asserting that all conditions are leveled by death; a position which, however it may… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The men and woman who make the best boon companions seem to have given up hope of doing something else...some defect of… — John Jay Chapman Copy Share Image
Before you were born—before any of your defects were apparent to you—they were absolutely apparent to God. That didn’t stop Him from… — Steven Furtick Copy Share Image
It is one of the defects of my character that I cannot altogether dislike anyone who makes me laugh. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Galen , in the third section of his book, "The Use of the Limbs," says correctly that it would be in vain… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
Now companies tend to mine gigantic databases for insights into what might happen six months from now. That might always be valuable,… — Kevin Maney Copy Share Image
Gravity is a mysterious carriage of the body invented to cover the defects of the mind. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Exactly 5,126 attempts to make the first bagless vacuum cleaner were failures-some catastrophic disappointments, some minor defects. It took 15 years. Prototype… — James Dyson Copy Share Image
Often the great scientists, by turning the problem around a bit, changed a defect to an asset. For example, many scientists when… — Richard Hamming Copy Share Image
The man who suffers from a sense of sin is suffering from a particular kind of self-love. In all this vast universe… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
And there are vampires, too? Werewolves, warlocks, all that stuff?" Clary gnawed her lower lip. "So I hear." "And you kill them,… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
I resolve for 1920 to sit down all by myself and take a personal stock-taking once a month. To be no more… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
The more spiritual a man desires to be, the more bitter does his present life become to him; because he sees more… — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
Everyone had some defect, or body or of mind: he thought of all the people he had known (the whole world was… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
