It's not just the embarrassment of tears. That's part of it, no doubt, but what embarrasses me much more, and always will,… — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
For me, an area of moral clarity is: you're in front of someone who's suffering and you have the tools at your… — Paul Farmer Copy Share Image
God has so framed us as to make freedom of choice and action the very basis of all moral improvement, and all… — William Matthews Copy Share Image
Disease is an experience of mortal mind. It is fear made manifest on the body. Divine Science takes away this physical sense… — Mary Baker Eddy Copy Share Image
Comparative criticism teaches us that moral and aesthetic defects are more nearly related than is commonly supposed. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
If surrealism ever comes to adopt a particular line of moral conduct, it has only to accept the discipline that Picasso has… — Andre Breton Copy Share Image
In the terms of our Great Society the Hell's Angels and their ilk are losers - dropouts, failures and malcontents. They are… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Thus if the First Amendment means anything in this field, it must allow protests even against the moral code that the standard… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
Moral progress is a process of isolation; the mountain tops are lonely. — Austin O'Malley Copy Share Image
I have a merely ethical and moral relationship to collecting. Whereby I never collect things that I necessarily like. I collect things… — Ryan Gander Copy Share Image
Moral obligation is to me so very strong a Stimulant, that in 9 cases out of ten it acts as a Narcotic.… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Science does not have a moral dimension. It is like a knife. If you give it to a surgeon or a murderer,… — Wernher von Braun Copy Share Image
The symbol of all relationships among such men, the moral symbol of respect for human beings, is the trader. We, who live… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
We are going to file a suit to the Hague tribunal, which must investigate into these crimes against humanity, it is a… — Petro Poroshenko Copy Share Image
We each have all the time there is; our mental and moral status is determined by what we do with it. — Mary Elizabeth McGrath Blake Copy Share Image
Too often, complaint is not about principled objection on moral grounds, but opportunistic objection on grounds of self-interest. To rectify this, we… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
It was one of those moments—which sometimes occur only at the interval of years—when a man's moral aspect is faithfully revealed to… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
[Her] work taught me that you could be all the traditional feminine things -- a mother, a lover, a listener, a nurturer… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Oh, I'm developing a beautiful character! It droops a bit under cold and frost, but it does grow fast when the sun… — Jean Webster Copy Share Image
If the bible were published as fiction, no reviewer would give it a passing grade. There are some vivid scenes and quotable… — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
The ultimate purpose of religious life is to make this evolution move in a direction far more important to the destiny of… — Muhammad Iqbal Copy Share Image
A moral lesson is better expressed in short sayings than in long discourse. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In America, the traditional routes to black identity have hardly been normal. Suicide (disappearance by imitation, or willed extinction), violence (hysterical religiosity,… — June Jordan Copy Share Image
There are really exercises in a kind of consumerist ethic that I think don't have the same moral weight as medicine or… — Michael Sandel Copy Share Image
I argue that I don't think it's a moral position to say that civilization is going to collapse, and that's okay. Because… — Margaret D. Klein Copy Share Image
One might suppose that reality must be held to at all costs. However, though that may be the moral thing to do,… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Such nonsense!" declared Dr Greysteel. "Whoever heard of cats doing anything useful!" "Except for staring at one in a supercilious manner," said… — Susanna Clarke Copy Share Image
The moral sense, or conscience, is as much part of a man as his leg or arm. It is given to all… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Men have no right to put the well-being of the present generation wholly out of the question. Perhaps the only moral trust… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
In the spiritual domain, criticism is love turned sour. In a wholesome spiritual life there is no room for criticism. The critical… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
If I cannot retain my moral influence over a man except by occasionally knocking him down, if that is the only basis… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
I contend that whatever does not raise the moral standard of the church or community has been a revival from God. — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
You can't go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
Discipline is training that corrects and perfects our mental faculties or molds our moral character. Discipline is control gained by enforced obedience.… — Charles R. Swindoll Copy Share Image
The Republican party is the party of nostalgia. It seeks to return America to a simpler, more innocent and moral past that… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
I had parents who instilled in me the importance of love, morals and hard work. I give God all the glory because… — Junior Seau Copy Share Image
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