You are persecuted and despised. It were better that a person should be the oppressed than that he should be the oppressor;… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
The elegance of dress, of motion, and of manners gives a lustre to beauty, and inflames the senses through the imagination. Luxurious… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
You live as if you were destined to live forever, no thought of your frailty ever enters your head, of how much… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
Love and faith are not common companions. More commonly power and fear consort with faith....Power is not to be crossed; one must… — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
Knowing who the actors were as you were designing them helped, with Catherine's beauty and Renee's frailty, they directed me visually just… — Colleen Atwood Copy Share Image
[On dishonest business methods:] ... frequently the defender of the practice falls back on the Christian doctrine of charity, and points out… — Ida Tarbell Copy Share Image
When with care we have raised an imaginary treasure of happiness, we find at last that the materials of the structure are… — Samuel Rogers Copy Share Image
It's one of the saving graces in a life, to be able to perceive one's own and others' absurdity, to notice our… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
I could meet dreadful people and end up seeing the world through their eyes, seeing their frailties, their needs. — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
The imperfections of a man, his frailties, his faults, are just as important as his virtues.You can't separate them. They're wedded. — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Never listen to accounts of the frailty of others; and if anyone should complain to you of another, humbly ask him not… — John of the Cross Copy Share Image
We look for some reward of our endeavors and are disappointed that not success, not happiness, not even peace of conscience, crowns… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Grace can pardon our ungodliness and justify us with Christ's righteousness; it can put the Spirit of Jesus Christ within us; it… — John Bunyan Copy Share Image
Ashamed of the many frailties they feel within, all men endeavor to hide themselves, their ugly nakedness, from each other, and wrapping… — Bernard de Mandeville Copy Share Image
I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own --… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“You have been told that, even like a chain, you are as weak as your weakest link. This is but half the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For a guy who believes in hope, Obama doesn't seem to be able to spread much of it around. How can he?… — Tina Brown Copy Share Image
The United States of America is a nation where people are not united because of those three glaring frailties: racism, injustices and… — Yuri Kochiyama Copy Share Image
But how can you know anything of the impression made on others? Who can assure you that others do not draw therefrom… — Pope Pius XII Copy Share Image
What is man's love? His vows are broke even while his parting kiss is warm. — Fitz-Greene Halleck Copy Share Image
“He sank back into his black-and-white world, his immobile world of inanimate drawings that had been granted the secret of motion, his… — Steven Millhauser Copy Share Image
That historian or scholar who delights in pointing out the weaknesses and frailties of present or past leaders destroys faith. A destroyer… — Boyd K. Packer Copy Share Image
Vanity calculates but poorly on the vanity of others; what a virtue we should distil from frailty, what a world of pain… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image