Reaching into one's own pocket to assist his fellow man is noble and worthy of praise. Reaching into another person's pocket to… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
To make a man perfectly happy tell him he works too hard, that he spends too much money, that he is "misunderstood"… — Helen Rowland Copy Share Image
How noble and good everyone could be if, every evening before falling asleep, they were to recall to their minds the events… — Anne Frank Copy Share Image
Friendship's an abstract of this noble flame, 'Tis love refin'd, and purged from all its dross, 'Tis next to angel's love, if… — Katherine Philips Copy Share Image
It is essential to the sanity of mankind that each one should think the other crazy - a condition with which the… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
“No account of the history of the Allahabad High Court can ever be complete without an honourable and detailed reference to Pundit… — Munindra Misra Copy Share Image
The seductiveness of war derives in part from its location on this boundary of the human, the inhuman, and the superhuman. It… — Drew Gilpin Faust Copy Share Image
Every one of these hundreds of millions of human beings is in some form seeking happiness… Not one is altogether noble nor… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
When the healthy nature of man acts as a whole, when he feels himself to be in the world as in a… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
What has our culture lost in 1980 that the avant-garde had in 1890? Ebullience, idealism, confidence, the belief that there was plenty… — Robert Hughes Copy Share Image
Then he is a monster!" the Prince crowed, "and I must slay him at once. The Formula works!" "Your Formula must result… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
So we must lay it down that the association which is a state exists not for the purpose of living together but… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Writing about real stuff that really concerned me brought out my craft. If you're writing a story about, 'Is Lois Lane gonna… — Dennis O'Neil Copy Share Image
If anyone feels offended by my words, I would respond that I speak them with affection and with the best of intentions,… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
“Mackenzie, I am what some would say ‘holy, and wholly other than you.’ The problem is that many folks try to grasp… — William P. Young Copy Share Image
Even so; an't please your worship, Brakenbury, You may partake of any thing we say: We speak no treason, man; we say… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
It's the idea that people living close to nature tend to be noble. It's seeing all those sunsets that does it. You… — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image
Life, which all creatures love and strive to keep Wonderful, dear and pleasant unto each, Even to the meanest; yea, a boon… — Edwin Arnold Copy Share Image
Greediness consists in ravishing the goods of another through violence or cunning, as in the two noble professions of the conqueror and… — Augustin Thierry Copy Share Image
Time, which gnaws and diminisheth all things else, augments and increaseth benefits; because a noble action of liberality, done to a man… — Francois Rabelais Copy Share Image
Our diplomacy ended up giving a bad conscience to an international community capable only of expressing noble sentiments while doing nothing, ..… — Alain Juppe Copy Share Image
I find Jessica Jones a much more interesting character to write for than Wonder Woman. Wonder Woman is so noble and heroic,… — Melissa Rosenberg Copy Share Image
In a mucked up lovely river, I cast my little fly. I look at that river and smell it And it makes… — Greg Brown Copy Share Image
Even though many people prove to be ungrateful, do not let that stop you from benefiting others-for not only is beneficence in… — Francesco Guicciardini Copy Share Image
The nineteenth century planted the words which the twentieth century ripened into the atrocities of Stalin and Hitler. There is hardly an… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Why you exist, says Nietzsche with Søren Kierkegaard, nobody in the world can tell you in advance; but since you do exist,… — Georg Brandes Copy Share Image
No stigma attaches to the love of money in America, and provided it does not exceed the bounds imposed by public order,… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Here at home, when Americans were standing in long lines to give blood after the attack on the World Trade Center and… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
Politics is a noble activity. We should revalue it, practise it with vocation and a dedication that requires testimony, martyrdom, that is… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
If it be you that stirs these daughters' hearts Against their father, fool me not so much To bear it tamely; touch… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
What a devil art thou, Poverty! How many desires - how many aspirations after goodness and truth - how many noble thoughts,… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
I don't have hard numbers about this, but the impression I get is that the amount of eyeballs you get from being… — Randall Munroe Copy Share Image
We can see that the complexity we witness inside the African-American community today has always been there. Black people were just as… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
I think self-criticism is sort of a given when you're an actor. It's also about being curious and not being flippant. Anyone… — James Earl Jones Copy Share Image
Do not feed children on maudlin sentimentalism or dogmatic religion; give them nature... Do not terrify them in early life with the… — Luther Burbank Copy Share Image
In order to achieve the most noble accomplishments, the leader may have to 'enter into evil.' This is the chilling insight that… — Michael A. Ledeen Copy Share Image
Is anyone really surprised that Warren, who is the ultimate embodiment of concentrated decision-making power, picked somebody [Bill and Melinda Gates] who… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
...Vaulted with such ease into his seat, As if an angel dropp'd down from the clouds, To turn and wind a fiery… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
We have observed for thirty centuries that a large nose is a sign on the door of our face that says 'Herein… — Cyrano de Bergerac Copy Share Image
Citizenship comes first today in our crowded world... No man can enjoy the privileges of education and thereafter with a clear conscience… — Isaiah Bowman Copy Share Image