Make me chaste and To what excesses will men not go for the sake of a religion in which they believe so… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
The Constitution expressly and exclusively vests in the Legislature the power of declaring a state of war [and] the power of raising… — James Madison Copy Share Image
And the true order of going, or being led by another, to the things of love, is to begin from the beauties… — Plato Copy Share Image
I would give something to know for whose sake precisely those deeds were really done which report says were done for the… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
It'd be disingenuous to say I don't like attention - I'm an actor for God's sake - and it's flattering and all,… — Paul Giamatti Copy Share Image
While men believe themselves to be seeking truth for its own sake, they are in fact seeking life in truth. — Miguel de Unamuno Copy Share Image
We do three things, three things, friendship with God, friendship with one another, and open friendship for the sake of the world.… — John Middendorf Copy Share Image
When I don't have a movie, I don't take a job just for the sake of working. I just sit it out… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
Your enemy shall ye seek; your war shall ye wage, and for the sake of your thoughts! And if your thoughts succumb,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Art is solace; art is vision, and when I pick up a literary work, I am a consumer of literature for its… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
Don't be hard on yourself. And take as many chances, risks, as you can. You've got to be out there adventuring with… — Robert Plant Copy Share Image
No writer, I believe, should attempt a novel before he is thirty, and not then unless he has been hopelessly and helplessly… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
The chattering bloody classes, or what I call the liberal Guardian readers, they're all buying SUVs to drive around London. I smile… — Michael O'Leary Copy Share Image
Collectivism means the subjugation of the individual to a group - whether to a race, class or state does not matter. Collectivism… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The highest perfection of human life consists in the mind of man being detached from care, for the sake of God. — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
A nation's not a child, for God's sake. ... It's like a wild horse you tame by breaking it. Or a fiery… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
[Altruism] is a moral system which holds that man has no right to exist for his own sake, that service to others… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Music and dancing (the more the pity) have become so closely associated with ideas of riot and debauchery among the less cultivated… — John Herschel Copy Share Image
Death in various forms is sometimes comforting, while resurrection and new life can be demanding and threatening. If I lived as if… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
I wasn't making music for the sake of music but rather making music in the context of other music. At the same… — Kevin Shields Copy Share Image
People will say that it's some kind of evasion, but I would never want to have a kid for me. I'd want… — Jeremy Northam Copy Share Image
The right for the right's sake is the motto which everyone should take for his own life. With that as a standard… — Felix Adler Copy Share Image
Competition for the sake not of destroying one another, but for the sake of bettering and improving both competitors as a result… — Woodie Flowers Copy Share Image