God rules even where Satan seems to hold sway, because the latter exists only on God's sufferance. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I have tried getting up early, and I have tried getting up late-and the latter agrees with me best. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth; the former course is silly, the latter a mark of prudence. — Democritus Copy Share Image
I can be your best friend or your worst enemy. You seem to prefer the latter. — Jim Carrey Copy Share Image
Science does not stand still, and neither does philosophy, although the latter has a tendency to walk in circles. — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
Stubborness we deprecate, Firmness we condone, The former is our neighbors trait, The latter is our own. — John Wooden Copy Share Image
If untouchability is an integral part of Hinduism, the latter is a spent bullet. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Every Latter-day Saint should sustain, honor, and obey the constitutional law of the land in which he lives. — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
The latest literary discussions reflect a struggle between two artistic methods - romanticism and realism, with the latter clearly ascendant for the… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
Of all social institutions language is least amenable to initiative. It blends with the life of society, and the latter, inert by… — Ferdinand de Saussure Copy Share Image
To Latter-day Saints there can be no objection to the careful and critical study of the scriptures, ancient or modern, provided only… — John Andreas Widtsoe Copy Share Image
In fact, the wage-price spiral is the functional counterpart of unemployment. The latter occurs when there is insufficient demand; the spiral operates… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Your tittle-tattlers, and those who listen to slander, by my good will should all be hanged--the former by their tongues, the latter… — Plautus Copy Share Image
At some point, we all have to decide how we are going to fail: by not going far enough, or by going… — Harriet Rubin Copy Share Image
Forced to choose between limiting population or trying to increase food production, we chose the latter and ended up with starvation, warfare,… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
Whenever I get distracted or bored, my eyes wander over to that chalkboard and I read the words. Some of them grow… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
We are driven to confess that we actually care more for religion than we do for religious theories and ideas: and in… — William Ernest Hocking Copy Share Image
It is so wonderful to our neurologists that a man can see without his eyes, that it does not occur to them… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Those of us forced to read the London papers sometimes speculate about which is greater: the average British hack's sloth, mendacity, ignorance,… — Larry King Copy Share Image
About Mike the construction worker, friend of Roark: "He worshipped expertness of any kind. He loved his work passionately and had no… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Every once in awhile, find a spot of shade, sit down on the grass or dirt, and ask yourself this question: “Do… — Ken Baumann Copy Share Image
It is necessary a writing critic should understand how to write. And though every writer is not bound to show himself in… — Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury Copy Share Image
There is a reason for the affected profession of " anarchist sympathies" among Tories and grandees, and of " libertarian principles" by… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Be a balanced optimist. Nobody is suggesting that you become an oblivious Pollyanna, pretending that nothing bad can or ever will happen.… — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
There is no Latter day Saint who dies after having lived a faithful life who will lose anything because of having failed… — Lorenzo Snow Copy Share Image
During the lifetime of great revolutionaries, the oppressing classes constantly hounded them, received their theories with the most savage malice, the most… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What is the cause that one is hardened, and another readily moved to compunction? Listen! It springs from the will, in the… — Symeon the New Theologian Copy Share Image
At today's prices for medicines, doctors and hospitals-if the latter are available at any price-only millionaires can afford to be hurt or… — Malcolm Forbes Copy Share Image
The nation as such is not a large subject that has needs, that works, practices economy, and consumes. . . . Thus… — Ralph Raico Copy Share Image
Muhammad professed to derive from Heaven, and he has inserted in the Koran, not only a body of religious doctrines, but political… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
We may wonder at the choice of Israel and Rome as the archetypes of the new nation, in view of the long… — Robert Neelly Bellah Copy Share Image
In Europe, nothing is certain except death and welfare, and why let the former get in the way of the latter? — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
Is it so wrong to just live life and enjoy it? Between fun and function, why must we choose the latter? — Arthur Nersesian Copy Share Image
Every failure can be considered as a tragedy or a chance to learn something. The latter is healthier — Harry Emerson Fosdick Copy Share Image
... I'm much closer to the people at the bottom than the people at the top, and the latter won't forgive me… — Princess Diana Copy Share Image
Some people are academically inclined, some vocationally and we shouldn't penalise the latter. — James Dyson Copy Share Image
