When I first came to the House of Commons and walked out into the lobby, men sprang to their feet. I asked… — Agnes Macphail Copy Share Image
That, Senators, is what a favour from gangs amounts to. They refrain from murdering someone; then they boast that they have spared… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Defer not till to-morrow to be wise, To-morrow's Sun to thee may never rise; Or should to-morrow chance to cheer thy sight… — William Congreve Copy Share Image
Indeed, truth draws strength from itself and not from the number of votes in its favour. — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
I'm in favour of religion as a tamer of arrogance. For a Greek Orthodox, the idea of God as creator outside the… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
I've seen the smiling of Fortune beguiling, I've felt all its favours and found its decay; Sweet was its blessing, kind its… — Richard Cobden Copy Share Image
It is in rare and scattered instants that beauty smiles even on her adorers, who are reduced for habitual comfort to remembering… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
The senator had only one argument in his favour: his feeling. When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object.… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Again, in our enterprises we present the singular spectacle of daring and deliberation, each carried to its highest point, and both united… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
For every idealistic peacemaker willing to renounce his self-defence in favour of a weapons-free world, there is at least one warmaker anxious… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
“Respect cannot be inherited, respect is the result of right actions.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
In coming to understand anything we are rejecting the facts as they are for us in favour of the facts as they… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
There is nothing little in God; His mercy is like Himself-it is infinite. You cannot measure it. His mercy is so great… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
The Mormons had a divine revelation in favour of polygamy, but under pressure from the United States Government they discovered that the… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
At school any spontaneous act was likely to get me into trouble. I learned never to act on impulse, and that whatever… — Keith Johnstone Copy Share Image
Classrooms keep getting set up more and more around the verbal and less around the kinesthetic and active. They are increasingly becoming… — Michael Gurian Copy Share Image
The questions they ask usually in the polls is: do you support the President's attempt to overthrow the government of Saddam Hussein?… — William Blum Copy Share Image
Few men survey themselves with so much severity as not to admit prejudices in their own favour, which an artful flatterer may… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
We should always speak what would please the man of whom we expect a favour,like the hunter who sings sweetly when he… — Chanakya Copy Share Image
There can be no doubt that probability increases with practice. Fortune favours the brave, fortune favours the prepared mind, and fortune favours… — Michael Kenna Copy Share Image
What starting your company means: you will lose your stable income, your right to apply for a leave of absence, and your… — Jack Ma Copy Share Image
problematic within post-Reformation dogmatics. Is faith something I `do' to earn God's favour, and, if not, what role does it play? Once… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is a lively spark of nobleness to descend in most favour to one when he is lowest in affliction — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
Real conservatives are in favour of all kinds of unelected power and authority. — Peter Hitchens Copy Share Image
