Avarice begets more vices than Priam did children and like Priam survives them all. It starves its keeper to surfeit those who… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Perhaps a reign of powerful women is necessary to make, or unmake when need be, powerful men. Women would not waste so… — Natalie Clifford Barney Copy Share Image
The reins of government have been so long slackened, that I fear the people will not quietly submit to those restraints which… — Abigail Adams Copy Share Image
Let us be clear: censorship is cowardice. ... It masks corruption. It is a school of torture: it teaches, and accustoms one… — Pablo Antonio Cuadra Copy Share Image
We submit to the majority because we have to. But we are not compelled to call our attitude of subjection a posture… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
It is better to resist oppression by violent means than to submit, but it is best of all to resist by nonviolent… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I do not wonder that, where the monastick life is permitted, every order finds votaries, and every monastery inhabitants. Men will submit… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
This philosophical postulate that the end of all being is the happiness of man has been sort-of covered over with evangelical terms… — Paris Reidhead Copy Share Image
Humility is the mother of all virtues: the humble in spirit progress and are blessed because they willingly submit to higher powers… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
The Artist submits from day to day to the fatal rhythm of the impulses of the universal world which encloses him, continual… — Odilon Redon Copy Share Image
He should have no further trouble from her, he thought in satisfaction. Surely by now she knew his dominance over her. She… — Lora Leigh Copy Share Image
Whoever submits himself to a super-discipline can expect great triumphs. — Samael Aun Weor Copy Share Image
Humility is the mother of all virtues. Humility says we are not in control, principles are in control, therefore we submit ourselves… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
I urge you to examine in your own mind the assumptions which must lay behind using the police power to insist that… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
Submit to a daily practice. Your loyalty to that is a ring at the door. Keep knocking, and the joy inside will… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Our country asserts for itself the glory of being the freest upon the surface of the globe... but one dark spot still… — James Forten Copy Share Image
A proud woman who has learned to submit carries all her pride to the reinforcement of her submission, and looks down with… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
[O]ur rules can have authority over such natural rights only as we have submitted to them. The rights of conscience we never… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I humbly submit to you, if you've got a problem with me as a person, then it's your problem. — Mark Jackson Copy Share Image
She moved nearer, leaned her shoulder against me — and we were one, and something flowed from her into me, and I… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
To the shepherds alone was given all power to teach, to judge, to direct; on the faithful was imposed the duty of… — Pope Leo XIII Copy Share Image
The hallmark of an authentic evangelicalism is not the uncritical repetition of old traditions but the willingness to submit every tradition, however… — John Stott Copy Share Image
Those who submit like a child do it because they know that the Father wants only the happiness of His children and… — Henry B. Eyring Copy Share Image
The exterior must be joined to the interior to obtain anything from God, that is to say, we must kneel, pray with… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image