Touch a university with hostile hands and the blood you draw is prompt, copious, and real. — Diana Trilling Copy Share Image
Emotions aren't doable. Actions are doable, and if you do them correctly, they prompt the feelings. — Stella Adler Copy Share Image
Terror is only justice: prompt, severe and inflexible. It is then an emanation of virtue. — Maximilien Robespierre Copy Share Image
Common-sense knowledge is prompt, categorical, and inexact. — Susanne Katherina Langer Copy Share Image
The tongue of slander is too prompt with wanton malice to wound the stranger. — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
Who-only let him be a man and intent upon honor-is not eager for the honorable ordeal and prompt to assume perilous duties?… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Tis not for us to warn a wilful sinner; We stay him not, but let him run his course, Till by misfortunes… — Aristophanes Copy Share Image
The consideration that human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected will always continue to prompt me to promote the former by… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Happiness is only to be found in a recurrence to the principles of human nature; and these will prompt very simple measures. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
Three things prompt men to a regular discharge of their duty in time of action: natural bravery, hope of reward, and fear… — George Washington Copy Share Image
It is rare to see a rich man religious; for religion preaches restraint, and riches prompt to unlicensed freedom. — Owen Feltham Copy Share Image
Most written work is a conversation between the editor and the writer, that the writer essentially fulfills in public, and the editor… — Alexander Chee Copy Share Image
If for no other reason, personal pride should prompt every governor and state legislator to take a secessionist attitude; they were not… — Frank Chodorov Copy Share Image
There is no finer way to demonstrate love of God than by serving Him in the positions to which we may be… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
It doesn’t much matter what line of argument you take as a woman. If you venture into traditional male territory, the abuse… — Mary Beard Copy Share Image
I would like, with the sun shining through the window on a crisp early-autumnal mid-morning, with a sufficiency of Monster Cappucino flowing… — Robert Fripp Copy Share Image
I did a lot of work with early 20th century attitudes, the kind of superficial notions and behavior that prompt people who… — James Vance Copy Share Image
lf the attribute of popular government in peace is virtue, the attribute of popular government in revolution is at one and the… — Maximilien Robespierre Copy Share Image
...it is pretentious for photographers to believe that their pictures alone change things. If they did, we wouldn't be besieged by war,… — Eugene Richards Copy Share Image
Maybe the purchasing and the making and the wrapping and the decorating - those delightfully generous and important expressions of our love… — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image
All of those broken bones in northern Japan, all of those broken lives and those broken homes prompt us to remember what… — Simon Winchester Copy Share Image
The 4th of July is the first great fact in your nation's history — the very ring-bolt in the chain of your… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
What I build upon I shall be told is a folly that wise men are not guilty of: I own it; but… — Sylvester Graham Copy Share Image
The most effectual means of preventing the perversion of power into tyranny are to illuminate, as far as practicable, the minds of… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Such is the condition of life that something is always wanting to happiness. In youth we have warm hopes, which are soon… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
I believe that the public temper is such that the voters of the land are prepared to support the party which gives… — Grover Cleveland Copy Share Image
Courtesy is doing that which nothing under the sun makes you do but human kindness. Courtesy springs from the heart; if the… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
He [the Lord] will always hear your prayers and will invariably answer them. However, His answers will seldom come while you are… — Richard G. Scott Copy Share Image
You don't cast the animal, per se. You have an animal trainer who looks for several of them. That is a different… — Ethan Coen Copy Share Image
I've started running three or four times a week, which prompts millions of sketch ideas. — Nina Conti Copy Share Image
Prompt to move but firm to wait - knowing things rashly sought are rarely found. — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
Therefore the good fighter will be terrible in his onset, and prompt in his decision. — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
One of the best ways to cultivate a possibility mind set is to prompt yourself to dream one size bigger than you… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
I continually find it necessary to guard against that natural love of wealth and grandeur which prompts us always, when we come… — William Wilberforce Copy Share Image
Nature [has] implanted in our breasts a love of others, a sense of duty to them, a moral instinct, in short, which… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
If thou tellest the sorrows of thy heart, let it be to him in whose countenance thou mayst be assured of prompt… — Saadi Copy Share Image