There is a middlebrow snobbery in America that praises everything on public television and disdains everything on the commercial networks as a… — Henry Fairlie Copy Share Image
When Nietzsche praises egoism it is always in an aggressive or polemical way, against the virtues, against the virtue of disinterestedness (Z… — Gilles Deleuze Copy Share Image
Contemplation: I read a lot of books on philosophy and religion, and try to keep always growing in that part of my… — Kimbra Copy Share Image
“In the Name of Allah, the Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful. All the praises and thanks be to Allah, the Lord of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You do ill to praise, but worse to censure, what you do not understand — Leonardo Da Vinci Copy Share Image
When all is summed up, a man never speaks of himself without loss; his accusations of himself are always believed; his praises… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
O most illustrious of the days of time! Day full of joy and benison to earth When Thou wast born, sweet Babe… — Abraham Coles Copy Share Image
It is for the wise people who delight in humanity, praise justice, despise their flatterers, and respect the truth. — Madame Roland Copy Share Image
I tilt her chin up and bend my face to hers, silently praising every woman who's had a hand in making her… — Tammara Webber Copy Share Image
The Church knew what the psalmist knew: Music praises God. Music is well or better able to praise him than the building… — Igor Stravinsky Copy Share Image
You give yourself to the world for people to either praise or destroy. — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
He who refuses praise the first time that it is offered does so because he would hear it a second time. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
[The political mind] is a strange mixture of vanity and timidity, of an obsequious attitude at one time and a delusion of… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
“It's ingredients and a recipe. Anyone could do it." "But you chose to do it.” — Sarah Beth Durst Copy Share Image
For 2,500 years, people have been writing odes. Why? I think that there's something innately human in wanting to praise the world… — Barbara Hamby Copy Share Image
It would be a kind of ferocity to reject indifferently all sorts of praise. One should be glad to have that which… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
In four ways ... should one who flatters be understood as a foe in the guise of a friend: He approves of… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
When we reach the hilltops of heaven, and look back upon all the way whereby the Lord our God hath led us,… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
How can any Action be meritorious of Praise or Dispraise, Reward or Punishment, when the natural Principle of Self-Love is the only… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The praise that comes from love does not make us vain, but more humble. — James M. Barrie Copy Share Image
Soldiers in arms! Defenders of our soil! Who from destruction save us; who from spoil Protect the sons of peace, who traffic… — George Crabbe Copy Share Image
You always feel you are not deserving. People who are successful at what they do know what kind of work goes with… — Virginia Hamilton Copy Share Image
I appeal to Amherst men to reiterate the Amherst doctrine that the man who builds a factory builds a temple, that the… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
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