That delay is our surest protection which enables us to deliberate on the merits of our intentions. — Publilius Syrus Copy Share Image
People talk about 'getting rid of the old image', and I guess there's some merit in that. But the truth is that… — Danica McKellar Copy Share Image
To attach no importance to public opinion, is a proof that you do not merit its suffrage. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Sweet is the breath of praise when given by those whose own high merit claims the praise they give. — Hannah More Copy Share Image
People must know that their ideas will be listened to and, if they have merit, acted upon. If they do, it is… — James A. Champy Copy Share Image
I have sometimes thought that people are, in a sort, happy, that nothing can put out of countenance with themselves, though they… — William Penn Copy Share Image
My body, thus, and all my good besides, And all my merits gained and to be gained, I give them all away… — Shantideva Copy Share Image
... we disallow papistical doctrines of free will, of works of supererogation, of merits, of the necessity of auricular confession, and satisfaction… — Robert Ferrar Copy Share Image
The higher state to which [America] seeks the allegiance of all mankind is not of human, but of divine origin. She cherishes… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
Don't try to impress God with your works" or "Don't attempt to please God with your merits" or "Don't try to keep… — Martin E. Marty Copy Share Image
“And that’s why we’re sending Boobs McGee.” I slowly swiveled my head to glare at Catcher. “Seriously. You’re, what, twelve now?” ***… — Chloe Neill Copy Share Image
While Europe's eye is fix'd on mighty things, The fate of empires and the fall of kings; While quacks of State must… — Robert Burns Copy Share Image
In the library of the world men have hitherto been ranged according to the form, and the binding; the time is coming… — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
Gaining maturity in yoga practice involves learning to respect the paths that other people are on and acknowledging their merits, maybe even… — Geeta Iyengar Copy Share Image
the most censorious are generally the least judicious; who, having nothing to recommend themselves, will be finding fault with others. No man… — Ellin Devis Copy Share Image
The merit of those who fill a space in the world's history, who are borne forward, as it were, by the weight… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We acquire the love of people who, being in our proximity, are presumed to know us; and we receive reputation or celebrity,… — George Augustus Henry Sala Copy Share Image
“And so, on a night in late May, I found myself standing on the lawn of a Hyde Park mansion of vampires,… — Chloe Neill Copy Share Image
I was educated privately for free because I was a scholarship girl, 100% scholarship girl. I got it on my own merits.… — Louise Mensch Copy Share Image
I told that girl, in the kindest, gentlest way, that I could not consent to deliver judgment upon any one's manuscript, because… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
What I used to respect was not really aristocracy, but a set of personal qualities which aristocracy then developed better than any… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
Taking advantage of the method, found by me, of the black staining of the elements of the brain, staining obtained by the… — Camillo Golgi Copy Share Image
Whatever we may say against collections, which present authors in a disjointed form, they nevertheless bring about many excellent results. We are… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
If we could make up our minds to spare our friends all details of ill health, of money losses, of domestic annoyances,… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
All men are equal in nature, and also in original sin. It is in the merits and demerits of their actions that… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
For Quality: Stamp out fires, automate, computerize, M.B.O., install merit pay, rank people, best efforts, zero defects. WRONG!!!! Missing ingredient: profound knowledge. — W. Edwards Deming Copy Share Image
Only in America does 'health' 'care' 'reform' begin with the hiring of 16,500 new IRS agents tasked with determining whether your insurance… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
U.S. is a merit-based society... There is no glass ceiling if you have good performance track record and leadership skills. — Dinesh Paliwal Copy Share Image
FREEBOOTER, n. A conqueror in a small way of business, whose annexations lack of the sanctifying merit of magnitude. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
The world is not a meritocracy, as much as we may like to pretend that it is. And we have a long… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
“Merit: “I am yours until you ban bacon, or otherwise as long as I can put up with you.” — Chloe Neill Copy Share Image
“There is more in the atonement by way of merit, than there is in all human sin by way of demerit.” — Charles H. Spurgeon Copy Share Image
“Man's merit lieth in service and virtue and not in the pageantry of wealth and riches.” — Bahá'u'lláh Copy Share Image
Forces of Destruction: grades in school, merit system, incentive pay, business plans, quotas. — W. Edwards Deming Copy Share Image
“My first few weeks as a vampire had been inordinately busy. Like The Young and the Restless, but with slightly dead people.” — Chloe Neill Copy Share Image
For the most part I pick movies based on the merit of the script, and the merit of the script only. — Amber Heard Copy Share Image
I have an idea that conscience impedes quite as many merits as faults, is a sort of alloy, a nickel which may… — Sylvia Townsend Warner Copy Share Image
Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
The contempt of riches in the philosophers was a concealed desire of revenging on fortune the injustice done to their merit, by… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The magnitude of this evil among us is so deeply felt, and so universally acknowledged, that no merit could be greater than… — James Madison Copy Share Image
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