Creation comes before distribution - or there will be nothing to distribute. The need of the creator comes before the need of… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Xenophon says that there is no sound more pleasing than one's own praises. — Plutarch Copy Share Image
I agree that two times two makes four is an excellent thing; but if we are dispensing praise, then two times two… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We are raised to honor all the wrong explorers and discoverers thieves planting flags, murderers carrying crosses. Let us at last praise… — Peter S. Beagle Copy Share Image
We should not take the blessings of God for granted. We should always be careful to give God praise and thanksgiving for… — Chuck Smith Copy Share Image
The ignorant man doesn't praise the wise as the owl doesn't praise the light. — Vikrant Parsai Copy Share Image
So, of course, Gish's presentation was well received, which it would have been the case had he only gotten up and said… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
Seas of blood have been shed for the sake of patriotism. One would expect the harm and irrationality of patriotism to be… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
So once in every year we throng Upon a day apart, to praise the Lord with feast and song in thankfulness of… — Arthur Guiterman Copy Share Image
I condemn equally those who choose to praise man, those who choose to condemn him and those who choose to divert themselves,… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The eyes of all our countrymen are now upon us, and we shall have their blessings and praises, if happily we are… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Some of the most flowery praise you hear on the subject of teams is only hypocrisy. Managers learn to talk a good… — Tom DeMarco Copy Share Image
All censure of a man's self is oblique praise. It is in order to show how much he can spare. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
My sin, oh, the bliss of this glorious thought! My sin, not in part but the whole, Is nailed to the cross,… — Horatio Spafford Copy Share Image
To praise it would amount to praising myself. For the entire content of the work... coincides almost exactly with my own meditations… — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
I manage to think twice about everything / Why will they like me as they do / Or not as they do… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
I find the pain of a little censure, even when it is unfounded, is more acute than the pleasure of much praise. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
You do not write a novel for praise, or thinking of your audience. You write for yourself; you work out between you… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
My question is about the head of the Office of Government Ethics. Is he acting ethically when he sent out nine tweets… — Jason Chaffetz Copy Share Image
I have protracted my work till most of those whom I wished to please have sunk into the grave, and success and… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
He who boasts of his pedigree praises that which does not belong to him. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
a mother-in-law's praise says more in a woman's favor than anything else in the world. — Caroline Pafford Miller Copy Share Image
Every year the literary press praises dozens if not hundreds of novels to the skies, asserting explicitly or implicitly that these books… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
