The foolish are like ripples on water, For whatsoever they do is quickly effaced; But the righteous are like carvings upon stone,… — Horace Copy Share Image
Peace is a blessing that comes to those who trust in God. It is established through individual righteousness. True personal peace comes… — Marvin J. Ashton Copy Share Image
Penn Cage I think of as annoyingly righteous sometimes. He's almost too good. — Greg Iles Copy Share Image
How dare the smooth talkers, the clever official blabbers, open their mouths and boast of progress. . . . Here they hold… — Max Nordau Copy Share Image
There is a place where we are always alone with our own mortality, where we must simply have something greater than ourselves… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
A cold, self-righteous prig who goes regularly to church may be far nearer to Hell than a prostitute. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Hate-on-the-highway is an institution occupying a high place in our modern civilization....The godawful glares that drivers exchange as they pass each other,… — H. Allen Smith Copy Share Image
There never was a good war," said Franklin. "There have indeed been many wars in which a good man must take part,… — Charles Eliot Norton Copy Share Image
In taking stock of a politician, the first question is not whether he was a good man who used righteous means, but… — Frederick Scott Oliver Copy Share Image
Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong. — James Bryce Copy Share Image
Successful prime-time television of any genre produces some kind of emotional reaction in the viewers. There are a lot of different emotions… — Chris Hayes Copy Share Image
The Holy Koran, our religious book, teaches us, that we who declare ourselves to be righteous Muslims, do not participate in no… — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
Oh righteous doom, that they who make Pleasure their only end, Ordering the whole life for its sake, Miss that whereto they… — Eugene Ionesco Copy Share Image
If we will build righteous traditions in our families, the light of the gospel can grow ever brighter in the lives of… — L. Tom Perry Copy Share Image
You want to kill me, don't you? And here I thought you and your friends were so righteous. You are just as… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Not for the first time in my life, and certainly not for the last, a self-righteous gloom had edged out all semblance… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“To my way of thinking, the slavery issue is just an excuse to allow some people to do hateful things and feel… — Joan Lowery Nixon Copy Share Image
Social media itself is not protest. To tweet is not to protest physically. To do a Facebook post, and though it's critical… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
We explain justification simply as the acceptance with which God receives us into his favor as righteous men. And we say that… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
what we need in the world is manners ... I think that if, instead of preaching brotherly love, we preached good manners,… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The mouth of a righteous man is a well of life,but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked — Mohlatsane Qelemotse Copy Share Image
That is the real pivot of all bourgeois consciousness in all countries: fear and hate of the instinctive, intuitional, procreativebody in man… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
A gathering of Democrats is more sweaty, disorderly, offhand, and rowdy than a gathering of Republicans; it is also likely to be… — Clinton Rossiter Copy Share Image
In another lifetime she must have owned the world, or been faithfully wed to some righteous king who wrote psalms beside moonlit… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
