If they're not sincere, then naturally I'll turn them down. But if what they want is to gain power and use it… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
A good thought is indeed a great boon, for which God is to be first thanked; next he who is the first… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
But knowing that the world had come full circle to our Depression story didn't change the way we worked on it, or… — James Vance Copy Share Image
There is no more merit in being able to attach a correct description to a picture than in being able to find… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
I understand that, each time we contemplate with desire and devotion the Host in which is hidden Christ's Eucharistic Body, we increase… — Gertrude the Great Copy Share Image
Though we may sometimes unintentionally bestow our beneficence on the unworthy, it does not take from the merit of the act. For… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
No man can perform so little as not to have reason to congratulate himself on his merits, when he beholds the multitude… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
At Cardozo, study of law is part of a larger culture. You can get a law degree and make a good living,… — Norman Lamm Copy Share Image
We are justified freely, for Christ’s sake, by faith, without the exertion of our own strength, gaining of merit, or doing of… — Gerhard Copy Share Image
“Look. I know why you gave me that speech earlier today. I know you have an obligation to protect your vampires. But… — Chloe Neill Copy Share Image
“Luc is busy protecting our vampires.” “Luc is your bodyguard. He swore an oath to protect you.” An irritated shake of his… — Chloe Neill Copy Share Image
It is India that gave us the ingenious method of expressing all numbers by means of ten symbols, each symbol receiving a… — Pierre-Simon Laplace Copy Share Image
I never asked you to earn me. I want only that you should need me. Your path is not one of merit.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The sinners to whom Jesus directed His messianic ministry were not those who skipped morning devotions or Sunday church. His ministry was… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
I appeal to the contemptible speech made lately by Sir Robert Peel to an applauding House of Commons. 'Orders of merit,' said… — John Joseph Griffin Copy Share Image
The process could be likened to relaxing on a riverbank and watching a fish leap out of the water, sparkle for a… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
One of the most staggering truths of the Scriptures is to understand that we do not earn our way to heaven. ...works… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
NO NEUTRALS IN HEAVEN. There were no neutrals in the war in heaven. All took sides either with Christ or with Satan.… — Joseph Fielding Smith Copy Share Image
Horse-play, romping, frequent and loud fits of laughter, jokes, and indiscriminate familiarity, will sink both merit and knowledge into a degree of… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
The heart is that which lies at the centre of things, and is also formless. It is simple awareness devoid of movement… — Ajahn Thate Copy Share Image
Innovative ideas are rarely rejected on their merits; they’re rejected because of how they make people feel. If you forget people’s concerns… — Scott Berkun Copy Share Image
To be loved because of one's merit, because one deserves it, always leaves doubt; maybe I did not please the person whom… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
What are the moral convictions most fondly held by barbarous and semi-barbarous people? They are the convictions that authority is the soundest… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
The picture of the world's greatest superpower killing or seriously injuring 1,000 noncombatants a week, while trying to pound a tiny backward… — Robert McNamara Copy Share Image
The makers of dictionaries are dependent upon specialists for their definitions. A specialist's definition may be true or it may be erroneous.… — Benjamin Tucker Copy Share Image
The bravery founded upon the hope of recompense, upon the fear of punishment, upon the experience of success, upon rage, upon ignorance… — Francois de la Noue Copy Share Image
'Upstream Color' in particular, it's got to infect culture at some level in order to have a life of its own. Then… — Shane Carruth Copy Share Image
If Democrats vote against everyone sight unseen, then Republicans will vote for everyone sight unseen. However, if Democrats demonstrate that they’re considering… — Kevin Drum Copy Share Image
Praise in the beginning is agreeable enough; and we receive it as a favor; but when it comes in great quantities, we… — James Goldsmith Copy Share Image
I know me, and I know that I'm not somebody that particularly merits a lot of screaming and shouting. And there's nothing… — Daniel Radcliffe Copy Share Image
I think Hillary Clinton has made great strides in doing so, even though there are people who want to bring us back… — Natalie Portman Copy Share Image
...the great merit of the place is that one can arrange one's life here exactly as one pleases...there are facilities for every… — Henry James Copy Share Image
If faith is a valid tool of knowledge, then anything can be true 'by faith,' and therefore nothing is true. If the… — Dan Barker Copy Share Image
The animals possess a soul and men must love and feel solidarity with our smaller brethren. All animals are fruit of the… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Success is an ugly thing. Men are deceived by its false resemblances to merit… They confound the brilliance of the firmament with… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Giving no pain to any creature, let him slowly accumulate spiritual merit, for the sake ,of acquiring a companion to the next… — Guru Nanak Copy Share Image
The American culture promotes personal responsibility, the dignity of work, the value of education, the merit of service, devotion to a purpose… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
Since I have difficulty defining merit and what merit alone means - and in any context, whether it's judicial or otherwise -… — Sonia Sotomayor Copy Share Image
To those critics who see capitalism as a system of inegalitarian, oppressive structures, its defenders have vaunted its ability to recognize and… — Immanuel Wallerstein Copy Share Image
At the heart of the Protestant faith is the conviction that there is nothing we contribute to our salvation but our sin,… — Kevin DeYoung Copy Share Image
