A fellow will hack half a year at a block of marble to make something in stone that hardly resembles a man.… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Though men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements, yet these are, in truth, very often owing not… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Great and frequent reverses can crush and mar our bliss both by the pain they cause and by the hindrance they offer… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
What then is the source of my errors? They are owing simply to the fact that, since the will extends further than… — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
All I worried about was what Owings was doing to me, instead of what I was doing to him. When you start… — Dan Gable Copy Share Image
Every human being born within the United States of parents not owing allegiance to any foreign sovereignty is in the language of… — John Bingham Copy Share Image
Professors go batty too, perhaps more often than other people, although owing to their profession, their madness is less often remarked. — Michael Gruber Copy Share Image
The moderation of people in prosperity is the effect of a smooth and composed temper, owing to the calm of their good… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Owing to the imperfection of language the offspring is termed a new animal, but it is in truth a branch or elongation… — Erasmus Darwin Copy Share Image
“He's like one of those weird chappies in India who dissolve themselves into thin air and nip through space in a sort… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Formerly, leaders of states practiced realism, but did not honor it. With them morality was violated, but moral notions remained intact. The… — Julien Benda Copy Share Image
The deceit is sometimes unconscious, but not always, since some people, owing to their sectarianism, purposely overlook reality and refuse to acknowledge… — Pierre-Paul Grasse Copy Share Image
Spirit vibrated into matter; hence, both Spirit and matter exist. Matter, however, does not exist in the way that it appears to… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
Nationalist Socialist Germany wants peace because of its fundamental convictions. And it wants peace also owing to the realization of the simple… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
If it is a crime to love the South, its cause and its President, then I am a criminal. I would rather… — Belle Boyd Copy Share Image
There is a built-in sense of indebtedness in the consciousness of man, an awareness of owing gratitude, or being caled upon at… — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
Anyone may arrange his affairs so that his taxes shall be as low as possible; he is not bound to choose that… — Learned Hand Copy Share Image
The true guide of our conduct is no outward authority, but the voice of God, who comes down to dwell in our… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
A Christian is free and independent in every respect, a bond servant to none. A Christian is a dutiful servant in every… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
India offers exciting business opportunities owing to the growth in corporate travel and a significant middle-class population waiting to explore the world.… — Lloyd Dorfman Copy Share Image
He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause; to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for fame;… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Common fluency of speech in many men and most women is owing to a scarcity of matter. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
I feel like I owe him something, and I hate owing people. Maybe if I had thanked him at some point, I'd… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
