At the end of the day, every person makes their own evaluation and their own criticism and it's all respectable. I don't… — Carlos Vela Copy Share Image
As a general rule, it may be affirmed that the man who never intrigues for office may be most safely entrusted with… — Noah Webster Copy Share Image
“I find that socialism is often misunderstood by its least intelligent supporters and opponents to mean simply unrestrained indulgence of our natural… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
OK, I wasn't as successful as, say, Julia Roberts, but I'd spent years in a very respectable career, some big American films… — Joely Richardson Copy Share Image
Doing the show. That 10 AM feeling when the doors open up. Forget about it! Also, my son coming home with a… — Wendy Williams Copy Share Image
I have always liked reading biographies. It is the ideal literary genre for someone too prim, like me, to acknowledge a gossipy… — Jill Tweedie Copy Share Image
There is yet another illusion, that it is important to be respectable, to be loved and appreciated, to be important. Many say… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
Unlike the millions who casually masturbate in solitude while looking at girlie pictures in Playboy and similar magazines, the massage man preferred… — Gay Talese Copy Share Image
My dad wanted me to be a professional person, which I was - I was a civil engineer. I graduated from civil… — James Hong Copy Share Image
I am obliged to interpolate some remarks on a very difficult subject: proof and its importance in mathematics. All physicists, and a… — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
Agnosticism is a perfectly respectable and tenable philosophical position; it is not dogmatic and makes no pronouncements about the ultimate truths of… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
The pride of ancestry is a superstructure of the most imposing height, but resting on the most flimsy foundation. It is ridiculous… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The re-interpretation and eventually (sic) eradication of the concept of right and wrong which has been the basis of child training, the… — Brock Chisholm Copy Share Image
The camel is an ugly animal, seen from above. Its shoulders slope formless like a sack, its silly little ears and fluff… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
Good organization,” said Magnus. “I knew the man who founded it, back in the 1800s. Woolsey Scot. Respectable old werewolf family.” Alec… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Anti-Catholicism is the last respectable prejudice. You can't hate black people anymore, of course, and you can't hate homosexuals anymore, but you… — Tom Clancy Copy Share Image
My father knew the charming side of my mother, and my mother thought that he was attentive and pleasant and was an… — Christopher Durang Copy Share Image
The eurosceptics, many of whom are my friends and are highly intelligent people with strong views, they are entirely respectable in every… — Nicholas Soames Copy Share Image
Architecture is a discipline that takes time and patience. If one spends enough years writing complex novels one might be able, someday,… — Thom Mayne Copy Share Image
One, I have a wonderful publisher, Black Sparrow Press; as long as they exist, they will keep me in print. And they… — Diane Wakoski Copy Share Image
Horse-play, romping, frequent and loud fits of laughter, jokes, and indiscriminate familiarity, will sink both merit and knowledge into a degree of… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
I can't bear to hear a human being spoken of with contempt just because of his group identification...It's these respectable people here… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Man's respect for knowledge is one of his most peculiar characteristics. Knowledge in Latin is scientia, and science came to be the… — Imre Lakatos Copy Share Image
Respectable men and women content with the good and easy living are missing some of the most important things in life. Unless… — William P. Merrill Copy Share Image
“people considered them very respectable, not only because most of them were rich, but also because they never had any adventures or… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
Command that your marshal be careful to be present over the household, and especially in the hall, to keep the household, within… — Robert Grosseteste Copy Share Image
In the mass of mankind, I fear, there is too great a majority of fools and knaves; who, singly from their number,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In my next life, I plan to be a more respectable creature. For now, this is what is given to us. So… — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
Beware: don't choose the convenient, the comfortable, the respectable, the socially acceptable. Choose something that rings a bell in your heart. — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Homosexuality is assuredly no advantage, but it is nothing to be ashamed of, no vice, no degradation; it cannot be classified as… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Nothing will make me change my principles. Even with the knife at my neck I shall still declare, up to this day,… — Jean-Paul Marat Copy Share Image
To the love of pleasure we may therefore ascribe most of the agreeable, to the love of action we may attribute most… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
I wish the bald eagle had not been chosen as the representative of our country; he is a bird of bad moral… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I always was interested in prose. As a teenager, I published short stories. And I always wanted to write the long short… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
Fortune has dealt with me rather too well. I have known little struggle, not much poverty, many generosities. Now and then I… — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
