I'd gotten the message in my home, starting with my grandfather, that real work, the kind that makes you sweat and gets… — Ali Liebegott Copy Share Image
It is not easy to make our lives respectable by any course of activity. We must repeatedly withdraw into our shells of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“It may well be on such a night of clouds and cruel colors that there is brought forth upon the earth such… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
His mother?" Gracie couldn't believe it. Suzy Denton looked much too young to be his mother. And much too respectable. "But you're… — Susan Elizabeth Phillips Copy Share Image
Liberalism itself, is, on all matters connected with Church and Education, only a kind of corporate and "respectable" ungodliness. — Henry Parry Liddon Copy Share Image
For me, I'm not in an industry where I'm starving. I'm so lucky to have this job, I'm compensated for my work… — Jessica Chastain Copy Share Image
Even today I am willing to volunteer to do the dirty work for Israel, to kill as many Arabs as necessary, to… — Ariel Sharon Copy Share Image
Teach the child to respect that which is not respectable and you teach the child the first requirement of slavery: submission to… — Gerry Spence Copy Share Image
To a chemist, nothing on earth is unclean. A writer must be as objective as a chemist; he must abandon the subjective… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Wesco had a market capitalization of $40 million when we bought it [in the early 1970s]. It's $2 billion now. It's been… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
Reviewing the day's lessons. Isn't it joyful? Friends come from far. Isn't it delightful? One has never been angry at other's misunderstanding.… — Confucius Copy Share Image
It is said that the British Empire is very large and respectable, and that the United States are a first-rate power. We… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Scholars, who pride themselves on speaking their minds, often engage in a form of self-censorship which is called "realism." To be "realistic"… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
I don't ever want it to be about me. A friend of mine told me, 'The difference between fame and notoriety is… — Troy Baker Copy Share Image
[The English] find ill-health not only interesting but respectable and often experience death in the effort to avoid a fuss. — Pamela Frankau Copy Share Image
A mere literary man is a dull man; a man who is solely a man of business is a selfish man; but… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Mariano the Second had been the son of a fisherman, but he'd suffered from an unfortunate tendency toward seasickness and was forced… — Ally Carter Copy Share Image
The toppling of idols - even respectable, admired, best-practice, fastest-growing idols - is always the road to liberation. — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
I have noticed that the Christianity of a certain class of respectable people begins when they open their prayer-books at eleven o'clock… — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
In the early days, I just got lucky. I would audition for everything and just happen to land in something pretty respectable,… — Lizzy Caplan Copy Share Image
Contented, unambitious people are all very well in their way. They form a neat, useful background for great portraits to be painted… — Jerome K. Jerome 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
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