I trust and believe that the time spent in this voyage ... will produce its full worth in Natural History; and it… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Behind the contained and orderly lives we lead as members of the respectable middle class there's a terrible human capacity that may… — Diana Trilling Copy Share Image
As for America, it is the ideal fruit of all your youthful hopes and reforms. Everybody is fairly decent, respectable, domestic, bourgeois,… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
Jeff Sessions has some problematic spots on his history, but he has been a pretty normal, respectable senator, more conservative than a… — David Brooks 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
Any respectable artist has really given up on a label because the labels are still kidding themselves that the only way to… — Tony Visconti 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
Customs and convictions change; respectable people are the last to know, or to admit, the change, and the ones most offended by… — John Updike Copy Share Image
True practical Christianity (never let it be forgotten) consists in devoting the heart and life to God; in being supremely and habitually… — William Wilberforce Copy Share Image
I do assure you, Sir, that I have no pretension whatever of that kind of elegance which consists in tormenting a respectable… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Some of my unhappiest moments have been in organizations. Somehow it seems to be quite respectable to do things in organizations that… — Charles Handy Copy Share Image
It is only when someone cannot defend his opinion, and is not interested in believing the truth, that he will attempt to… — Jamie Whyte Copy Share Image
Just being alive is such a gift, but nobody ever told you to be thankful to existence. On the contrary, everyone was… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One of the interesting things about "outsidership" is that underneath it there's a longing to belong. I just wish the thing I… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
The orator, who may be silent without danger, may praise without difficulty and without reluctance; and posterity will confess that the character… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
We always keep things very, very simple. We can make a respectable living playing a smaller room that somebody else couldn't, because… — Will Oldham Copy Share Image
People pay all that money to sit in a chair in the theater mainly because it is a respectable way to see… — Elizabeth Ashley Copy Share Image
The best part? Probably being able to portray such a respectable, ethical, intelligent, strong woman. That's still pretty rare in our business,… — Catherine Bell Copy Share Image
The same old caveman feeling-greed, envy, violence, and mutual hate, which along the way assumed respectable pseudonyms like class struggle, racial struggle,… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
DELUSION, n. The father of a most respectable family, comprising Enthusiasm, Affection, Self-denial, Faith, Hope, Charity and many other goodly sons and… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
I have never understood disliking for war. It panders to instincts already catered for within the scope of any respectable domestic establishment. — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
The long-established and noble rule of Law, one of the greatest products of the character and tradition of British history, has suffered… — Robert Menzies Copy Share Image
Every art is a church without communicants, presided over by a parish of the respectable. An artist is born kneeling; he fights… — Hortense Calisher Copy Share Image
The impact of the human tragedies I've reported on is that, more often than not, I'll be angry. I want to know… — John Pilger Copy Share Image
The whole force of the respectable circles to which I belonged, that respectable circle which knew as I did notthe value of… — Ida Tarbell Copy Share Image
If you call it a romance, it will never be reviewed by the 'New York Times' or any other respectable literary venue.… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
The docks were said to be quite tough, but there were pubs you didn't go into if you were a respectable... but… — Derek Taylor Copy Share Image
A discontented young fellow, filled with self pride; he certainly should have considered it an honor to be sent on so respectable… — Zebulon Pike 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
No government, any more than an individual, will long be respected without being truly respectable; nor be truly respectable, without possessing a… — James Madison Copy Share Image
SORCERY, n. The ancient prototype and forerunner of political influence. It was, however, deemed less respectable and sometimes was punished by torture… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
The major obstacle to a religious renewal is the intellectual classes, who are highly influential and tend to view religion as primitive… — Robert Bork Copy Share Image
“True humanity demands that every human should be loved equally, but if that's not possible for you then at least love whoever… — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
For years I felt that being respectable meant maintaining a sinister complacency, and the disreputable freedom I sought helped make me a… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
I had the most reversed education possible. Every parent wants their son to be a businessman, respectable - me, it was the… — David Guetta 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
In populous cities, which are the seat of commerce and manufactures, the middle ranks of inhabitants, who derive their subsistence from the… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Let us hold fast the great truth, that communities are responsible, as well as individuals; that no government is respectable which is… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
Seen from a lower point of view, the Constitution, with all its faults, is very good; the law and the courts are… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I am on this account not displeased that the Figure is not known as a Bald Eagle, but looks more like a… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
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