Be as decent as you can. Don't believe without evidence. Treat things divine with marked respect — don't have anything to do… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
It isn't that life ashore is distasteful to me. But life at sea is better. — Francis Drake Copy Share Image
We stand for free speech. This means we are not going to ban distasteful subreddits. We will not ban legal content even… — Yishan Wong Copy Share Image
Prostitution is said to be the world's oldest profession. It is, indeed, a model of all professional work: the worker relinquishes control… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
Read not books alone, but men, and amongst them chiefly thyself. If thou find anything questionable there, use the commentary of a… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
Anxiety is an even better teacher than reality, for one can temporarily evade reality by avoiding the distasteful situation; but anxiety is… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
To take up the cross of Christ is no great action done once for all; it consists in the continual practice of… — John Henry Newman Copy Share Image
It troubles me that people speak about writing for money as ugly and distasteful. — Joyce Maynard Copy Share Image
The Nova Mob doesn't have motives, as we understand motives. "Sex is profoundly distasteful to a being of my mineral origin," as… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
The man who raises new issues has always been distasteful to politicians. He musses up what had been so tidily arranged. — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
As between the intolerable and the merely distasteful, I must choose the latter. — Rex Stout Copy Share Image
With the greatest respect, we do not make the criminal law on the basis of opinion polls. A majority of 9:1 could… — Kenneth Clarke Copy Share Image
We shall succeed only so far as we continue to undertake “the intolerable labor of thought” — that most distasteful of all… — Learned Hand Copy Share Image
To give up power to change for the better is inherently distasteful to everyone, and to force people to affirm that they… — Chris Prentiss Copy Share Image
Occasionally and frequently the exercise of the judgment ought to end in absolute reservation. It may be very distasteful, and great fatigue,… — Michael Faraday Copy Share Image
The tide of immigration in Canada has not been as great as along our frontier. They have been able to allow the… — Nelson A. Miles Copy Share Image
In these times of the 'Great Recession', we shouldn't be trying to shift the benefits of wealth behind some curtain. We should… — Mark Cuban Copy Share Image
Why is it that most things you might willingly do under other circumstances become distasteful when you have no choice? — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
“Without question, the notion of the doctor as a legitimate fee-for-service entrepreneur, making his fortune from misfortunes of is patients, is old-fashioned,… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
To be acknowledged outside of my city is amazing to me, because I don't really feel like I did nothing distasteful. I… — Danny Brown Copy Share Image
I just implore local music fans to get out on a regular basis to support the local bands that you like. If… — Larry Howes Copy Share Image
Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which… — Cynthia Heimel Copy Share Image
Children who willingly participate in sexual acts have the right to make that decision as well, even if it's distasteful to us… — Mary Ruwart Copy Share Image
I've always tried to have a rule that you shouldn't make fun of innocent people who can't defend themselves. I find that… — Bob Odenkirk Copy Share Image
You have to give everybody another recourse as some means other than violence, no matter how distasteful it may be to have… — Anthony Zinni Copy Share Image
