Failing at something is one thing, but Buddhism tells us that it is up to us how we interpret that failure [Buddhism]… — Jonny Wilkinson Copy Share Image
All morality depends upon our sentiments; and when any action or quality of the mind pleases us after a certain manner we… — David Hume Copy Share Image
I have this very moment finished reading a novel called The Vicar of Wakefield [by Oliver Goldsmith]… It appears to me, to… — Fanny Burney Copy Share Image
The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise isgone! it isgone, that… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
But would we know, whether the pretended prophet had really attained a just sentiment of morals? Let us attend to his narration;… — David Hume Copy Share Image
“Nice feelings are for people who have money to live as they please. If I had ten thousand a year, or even… — Elinor Glyn Copy Share Image
The sentiments attributed to Christ are in the Old Testament. They were familiar in the Jewish schools and to all the Pharisees,… — Joseph McCabe Copy Share Image
Solidarity is not a matter of sentiment but a fact, cold and impassive as the granite foundations of a skyscraper. If the… — Eugene V. Debs Copy Share Image
I love the acquaintance of young people; because, in the first place, I do not like to think myself growing old. In… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Men follow their sentiments and their self-interest, but it pleases them to imagine that they follow reason. And so they look for,… — Vilfredo Pareto Copy Share Image
But in many orders of beauty, particularly those of the finer arts, it is requisite to employ much reasoning, in order to… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Every man speaks and writes with intent to be understood; and it can seldom happen but he that understands himself, might convey… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Anecdote: A house that is rooted to one spot but can travel as quickly as you change your mind and is complete… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Our skin, our borders, all seem petty compared to alien races and the scale of galaxies. Nobody in the Star Wars universe… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
Although a person acting under authority performs actions that seem to violate standards of conscience, it would not be true to say… — Stanley Milgram Copy Share Image
The world concerns me only in so far as I have a certain debt and duty to it, because I have lived… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
The instinctive and universal taste of mankind selects flowers for the expression of its finest sympathies, their beauty and their fleetingness serving… — George Stillman Hillard Copy Share Image
At a certain point in history monuments became associated with kitsch, (it had never previously been so) and one might well ask… — Gillo Dorfles Copy Share Image
I am interested in politics but have stayed away from writing overtly political songs, or message songs, because I find it difficult… — Dean Wareham Copy Share Image
If those who voice opposition to Pope Francis and the direction in which he is leading the church come from other nations… — Wilton Daniel Gregory Copy Share Image
If any ambitious man have a fancy to revolutionize, at one effort, the universal world of human thought, human opinion, and human… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
Mr. Pickwick took a seat and the paper, but instead of reading the latter, peeped over the top of it, and took… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
There are so many of these young-adult movies with these cold guys who act like jerks to girls but are hiding soft… — Alice Englert Copy Share Image
“Chronic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Received as I am by the members of a legislature the majority of whom do not agree with me in political sentiments,… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
It is easier to serve God without a vision, easier to work for God without a call, because then you are not… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
And finally, I just felt it was crucial for some of us in the hip hop community to speak up on the… — MURS Copy Share Image
I think by all accounts in the same way we look back on the anti-Catholic and anti-Jewish sentiments of our history with… — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
In the hours of distress and misery, the eyes of every mortal turn to friendship; in the hours of gladness and conviviality,… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
Art neither belongs to religion, nor to ethics; but, like these, it brings us nearer to the Infinite, one of the forms… — Victor Cousin Copy Share Image
It is not so much in buying pictures as in being pictures, that you can encourage a noble school. The best patronage… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
“The Declaration of Sentiments, written in 1833, reads that our principles ‘forbid the doing of evil that good may come, and lead… — Lynn Austin Copy Share Image
The cry has been that when war is declared, all opposition should therefore be hushed. A sentiment more unworthy of a free… — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
We are too ready to imagine that we are religious, because we know something of religion. We appropriate to ourselves the pious… — Hannah More Copy Share Image
Even though its common knowledge these days, it never ceases to amaze me that all the richness of our mental life -… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Love, like truth and beauty, is concrete. Love is not fundamentally a sweet feeling; not, at heart, a matter of sentiment, attachment,… — Carter Heyward Copy Share Image
In peace and prosperity states and individuals have better sentiments, because they do not find themselves suddenly confronted with imperious necessities; but… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
Reverence is an ennobling sentiment; it is felt to be degrading only by the vulgar mind, which would escape the sense of… — Washington Allston Copy Share Image
The fact is, Scripture is filled with divine actions that don't fit our human standards of logic or morality. But they don't… — Francis Chan Copy Share Image
What I wanted was to die among strangers, untroubled, beneath a cloudless sky. And yet my desire differed from the sentiments of… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
![“Failing at something is one thing, but Buddhism tells us that it is up to us how we interpret that failure [Buddhism] a philosophy and way of life that resonates with me I identify with it. I agree with so much of the sentiment behind it. I enjoy the liberating effect it's had on me to get back…” quote by Jonny Wilkinson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/96f/jonny-wilkinson-21004_agree_failing-at-something-is-one-thing-but-bu_2987090.jpg)
![“I have this very moment finished reading a novel called The Vicar of Wakefield [by Oliver Goldsmith]… It appears to me, to be impossible any person could read this book through with a dry eye and yet, I don't much like it… There is but very little story, the plot is thin, the incidents very rare…” quote by Fanny Burney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ecd/fanny-burney-7403_book_i-have-this-very-moment-finished-reading_1786082.jpg)
