A man who owes a little can clear it off in a very little time, and, if he is a prudent man,… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Discipline can only be obtained when all the officers are imbued with the sense of their awful obligation to their men and… — George S. Patton Copy Share Image
“Where you are now is as a result of either your choice or someone’s choice. If you neglect the ideas of choosing… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Negligence in prayer withers the inner man. Nothing can be a substitute for it, not even Christian work. Many are so preoccupied… — Watchman Nee Copy Share Image
A miscalculation is not negligence, nor prudence a crime. I am a scientist. I base my action or inaction upon probability and… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
When once a man has made celebrity necessary to his happiness, he has put it in the power of the weakest and… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
They that have grown old in a single state are generally found to be morose, fretful and captious; tenacious of their own… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Unclean spirits increase the passions in us, making use of our negligence, and inciting them. But the angels decrease our passions, inciting… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
The Devil endeavours by every means to keep men in error, in the enticement of the passions, in darkness of mind and… — John of Kronstadt Copy Share Image
I hate those TV shows where characters talk about one thing, such as their patient on the operation table (let's say they're… — Jaclyn Moriarty Copy Share Image
I am a writer, a professional journalist with serious credentials in Crime, Craziness, and Politics. I have mingled with dangerous criminals and… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Minds that are stupid and incapable of science are in the order of nature to be regarded as monsters and other extraordinary… — Quintilian Copy Share Image
Marriages are always moving from one season to another. Sometimes we find ourselves in winter--discouraged, detached, and dissatisfied; other times we experience… — Gary Chapman Copy Share Image
Think'st thou there is no tyranny but that Of blood and chains? The despotism of vice-- The weakness and the wickedness of… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
Because they claim to be concerned with the welfare of whole societies, governments arrogate to themselves the right to pass off as… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
Every one should consider himself as intrusted not only with his own conduct, but with that of others; and as accountable, not… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
When a man's life is destroyed or damaged by some wound or privation of soul or body, which is due to other… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
The data from the 1990 Harvard Medical Practice Study suggest that 150,000 Americans die every year from doctors' negligence - compared with… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
As the flint contains the spark, unknown to itself, which the steel alone can awaken to life, so adversity often reveals to… — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
...(W)e lose when by official policy or by official negligence we allow, confuse or encourage our soldiers to forget . . .… — John McCain Copy Share Image
“No matter which flowers you cultivate in your garden, you're also welcoming weeds, but the real problem begins when you invite neglect… — Erwin D. Maramat Copy Share Image
“The first mistake is an opportunity to LEARN. But if you don’t use that experience to make a better decision next time,… — Felecia Etienne Copy Share Image
The poet must be alike polished by an intercourse with the world as with the studies of taste; one to whom labour… — Isaac D'Israeli Copy Share Image
The scepticism which men affect towards their higher inspirations is often not an honest doubt, but a guilty negligence, and is a… — James Martineau Copy Share Image
I consider a good reputation is a great part of the human happiness. Some people, if they are very, very rich can… — Aristotle Onassis Copy Share Image
In the lead up to the Iraq war and its later conduct, I saw at a minimum, true dereliction, negligence and irresponsibility,… — Anthony Zinni Copy Share Image
No weakness of the human mind has more frequently incurred animadversion, than the negligence with which men overlook their own faults, however… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Reeducation needs careful tending, like an English lawn. Even one moment of negligence, and the weeds crop up again ~ those indestructible… — Sefton Delmer Copy Share Image
Hereafter we all have to be redeemed. The world is pulling with a thousand strings. We sin because of indifference and negligence… — Joseph Goebbels Copy Share Image
When we realize a constant enemy of the soul abides within us, what diligence and watchfulness we should have! How woeful is… — John Owen Copy Share Image
An Italian philosopher said that "time was his estate"; an estate indeed which will produce nothing without cultivation, but will always abundantly… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The gospel is only good news if it gets there on time. I think if we don't deliver this message, it's negligence… — Greg Laurie Copy Share Image
“Put on what weary negligence you please, You and your fellows; I'll have it come to question: If he dislike it, let… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
All literature, highbrow or low, from the Aeneid onward, is fan fiction…Through parody and pastiche, allusion and homage, retelling and reimagining the… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
Liberals have a new wish every time their latest wish is granted. Conservatives should make them spell out their principles and ideals.… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
The popularity of disaster movies expresses a collective perception of a world threatened by irresistible and unforeseen forces which nevertheless are thwarted… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
There is no nation on earth powerful enough to accomplish our overthrow. Our destruction, should it come at all, will be from… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
What a fate: to be condemned to work for a firm where the slightest negligence at once gave rise to the gravest… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
