When incentive to acquire and obtain property is gone, people no longer make efforts to acquire any... Those who infringe upon property… — Ibn Khaldun Copy Share Image
Nothing is more false and more indiscreet than always to want to choose what mortifies us in everything. By this rule a… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
And could I look upon her without compassion, seeing her punishment in the ruin she was, in her profound unfitness for this… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
We forget how the Greeks and Romans prevailed magnificently in a barbaric world and how that triumph ended-how a slackness and softness… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
I run great risk of failing. It may be that I shall encounter ruin where I look for reputation and a career… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
In such a world as this, with such hearts as ours, weakness is wickedness in the long run. Whoever lets himself be… — Alexander MacLaren Copy Share Image
Power has destroyed many people - not really. Power doesn't destroy anyone. People apply it poorly and it can ruin their lives.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Circumstances may appear to wreck our lives and God's plans, but God is not helpless among the ruins. God's love is still… — Eric Liddell Copy Share Image
But the rest of Jace’s mind is watching the door slam behind her and seeing the final ruin of all his dreams.… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Any man who tries to be good all the time is bound to come to ruin among the great number who are… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
But who can describe the overweening pride of men? Or women mad with passion, reckless in their hearts, soulmates to every kind… — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
Are the days of winter sunshine just as sad for you, too? When it is misty, in the evenings, and I am… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Eventually, while researching, you'll learn something you didn't want to know. Some fact that ruins a plotline you had in mind. The… — Andy Weir Copy Share Image
If you are to go to Christ, do not put on your good doings and feelings, or you will get nothing. Go… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
This is the great truth life has to teach us ... that gratification of our individual desires and expression of our personal… — Hortense Odlum Copy Share Image
For such will be our ruin if you, in the immensity of your public abstractions, forget the private figure, or if we… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
It is often said that in prosperity we have many friends, but that we are usually neglected when things go badly. I… — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
If you think you can temper yourself into manliness by sitting here over your books, it is the very silliest fancy that… — James Anthony Froude Copy Share Image
The federal [bank deposit] insurance scheme has worked up to now simply and solely because there have been very few bank failures.… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
A nation that fails to plan intelligently for the development and protection of its precious waters will be condemned to wither because… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
There are versions of the pro-gay and anti-gay agenda that assume a simplistic rather than simple understanding of the issue - at… — Michael Horton Copy Share Image
The white face of the winter day came sluggishly on, veiled in a frosty mist; and the shadowy ships in the river… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
State authority can never be an end in itself; for, if that were so, any kind of tyranny would be inviolable and… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
In Germany it is good if as many people as possible join initiatives and peaceful demonstrations against the rule of the financial… — Sigmar Gabriel Copy Share Image
But please, when you see an opportunity…” He presses his hand to my cheek, cold and strong, and tilts my head up… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
I am in a constant state of surprise these days. Actually, now that I calculate, I've been betrothed only one full day,… — Mary Ann Shaffer Copy Share Image
Love is like a tree: it grows by itself, roots itself deeply in our being and continues to flourish over a heart… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Anarchism does not repudiate the right of ownership, but it has a conception thereof sufficiently different from [others'] to include the possibility… — Benjamin Tucker Copy Share Image
My position and the state will never allow me to become a dictator, but an authoritarian style of rule is characteristic of… — Alexander Lukashenko Copy Share Image
Even thou who mournst the daisy's fate, That fate is thine--no distant date; Stern Ruin's ploughshare drives, elate, Full on thy bloom,… — Robert Burns Copy Share Image
The apartments of the rich are cabinets of curiosities: a conglomeration of classical antiquity, gothic, renaissance; Louis XIII... Something from every century… — Alfred de Musset Copy Share Image
“Ah, what sights and sounds and pain lie beneath that mist. And we had thought that our hard climb out of that… — Eldridge Cleaver Copy Share Image
Among these treasures of our land is water-fast becoming our most valuable, most prized, most critical resource. A blessing where properly used-but… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
Maybe...you'll fall in love with me all over again." "Hell," I said, "I love you enough now. What do you want to… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
I'd like to say that I am romantic person, but I don't think I am. When I won my first tournament I… — Andy Murray Copy Share Image
The superior man, when resting in safety, does not forget that danger may come. When in a state of security he does… — Confucius Copy Share Image
Most people are just fat and because most bodybuilders juice, they can get away with eating what they want and just monitoring… — Scott Herman Copy Share Image
Our generation, like the one before us, must choose. Without the threat of the Cold War, without the pain of economic ruin,… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
How strange and foolish is man. He looses his health in gaining wealth. Then to regain health he wastes his wealth. He… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Brazil is strewn with ruins of projects - refineries, power plants - begun but never finished. Most of this investment never landed… — Franklin Foer Copy Share Image
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