Sometimes I think it is a great mistake to have matter that can think and feel. It complains so. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Kitty Kelley's method, already perfected in her unauthorised and unflattering biographies of Frank Sinatra and Nancy Reagan, is to write bestsellers that… — David Cannadine Copy Share Image
Sociologically, I think it is the most important thing going on in the world today. Because you can't change people by force.… — Goswami Kriyananda Copy Share Image
The great mistake of the reformers is to believe that life begins and ends with health, and that happiness begins and ends… — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Copy Share Image
The position of Prussia in Germany will not be determined by its liberalism but by its power ... Prussia must concentrate its… — Otto von Bismarck Copy Share Image
Young men make great mistakes in life; for one thing, they idealize love too much. — Benjamin Jowett Copy Share Image
There was a patient look on the old man's face, as if the world were a great mistake and he had nobody… — Sarah Orne Jewett Copy Share Image
The assumption that the egoless condition, or union of self and God, is man's final goal and ultimate destiny is a great… — Bernadette Roberts Copy Share Image
I thought for a change I would give up drinking, and it was a great mistake, and, although I reduced the size… — Winslow Homer Copy Share Image
The highest art is where has been most perfectly breathed the sentiment of humanity...Some persons suppose that landscape has no power of… — George Inness Copy Share Image
It is a very easy thing to devise good laws; the difficulty is to make them effective. The great mistake is that… — Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke Copy Share Image
One of the great mistakes that can be made by a man of my age is to get involved in athletic competition… — Bill Cosby Copy Share Image
We are, in a way, temporary ambulatory repositories for our nucleic acids. This does not deny our humanity; it does not prevent… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
All this struggling and striving to make the world better is a great mistake. Not that it's wrong to try to improve… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
It is a great mistake to suppose that bribery and corruption, although they may be very convenient for gratifying the ambition or… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
The thinker makes a great mistake when he asks after cause and effect. They both together make up the indivisible phenomenon. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
If honest of heart and uprightness before God were lacking or if I did not patiently wait on God for instruction, or… — George Muller Copy Share Image
Ambitious men spend their youth in rendering themselves worthy of patronage; it is their great mistake. While the foolish creatures are laying… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
If you think you can walk in holiness without keeping up perpetual fellowship with Christ, you have made a great mistake. If… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Our great mistake in education is ... the worship of book-learning-the confusion of instruction and education. We strain the memory instead of… — John Lubbock Copy Share Image
I've made some great mistakes in my life, but, you know, they were honest mistakes. — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
The great mistake about Europe is taking the countries seriously and letting them quarrel and drop bombs on one another. — Edmund Wilson Copy Share Image
We made a great mistake in the beginning of our struggle, and I fear, in spite of all we can do, it… — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
It is very easy to say that your opponents have been guilty of a breach of faith, but it is a great… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Ah, how true it is that we love ourselves too much and proceed with too much human prudence, that we may not… — Teresa of Avila Copy Share Image
