Any civilization where the main symbol of religious veneration is a tool of execution is a bad place to have children. — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
Mirthfulness is in the mind and you cannot get it out. It is just as good in its place as conscience or… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
“Respect cannot be inherited, respect is the result of right actions.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
Wealth per se I never too much valued, and my acquaintance with its possessors has by no means increased my veneration for… — Fanny Burney Copy Share Image
The veneration of Mary is inscribed in the very depths of the human heart — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
One of the Godlike things of this world is the veneration done to human worth by the hearts of men. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
“We seldom look up to the person; we usually look up to their persona.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
I have always a sacred veneration for anyone I observe to be a little out of repair in his person, as supposing… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Among the sentiments of most powerful operation upon the human heart, and most highly honorable to the human character, are those of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Each superfluous line, each wrongly placed line, any color placed without veneration or care, can spoil everything, that is, the spiritual. — Theo van Doesburg Copy Share Image
Sing me not a song; let me hear your recital of veneration and respect; this I will listen to over and over… — Ava Gardner Copy Share Image
The poor old earth which has mothered us and nursed us we treat with scant respect. Our awe and veneration we reserve… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
The inscrutable wisdom through which we exist is not less worthy of veneration in respect to what it denies us than in… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
But where did this veneration of childbirth come from? I missed that meeting. Childbirth is wonderful, childbirth is a miracle. Wrong. It's… — Bill Hicks Copy Share Image
No man speaketh, or should speak, of his prince, that which he hath not weighed whether it will consist with that veneration… — Isaac Barrow Copy Share Image
In a democracy - even if it is a so-called democracy like our white-?litist one - the greatest veneration one can show… — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
Mirthfulness is in the mind, and you cannot get it out. It is the blessed spirit that God has set in the… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
What but education has advanced us beyond the condition of our indigenous neighbors? And what chains them to their present state of… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
We must sometimes get away from the Authorized Version, if for no other reason, simply because it is so beautiful and so… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The pre-scientific age, whatever its deficiencies, had at least offered its members the peace of mind that follows from knowing all man-made… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
But, if the knowledge of the occult powers of nature opens the spiritual sight of man, enlarges his intellectual faculties, and leads… — H. P. Blavatsky Copy Share Image
With what astonishment and veneration may we look into our own souls, where there are such hidden stores of virtue and knowledge,… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Fair-goes are not only for oneself, but for underdogs. Even in international sporting matches Australians have been known to switch from their… — Donald Horne Copy Share Image
“The attitude which the man in the street unconsciously adopts towards science is capricious and varied. At one moment he scorns the… — Percy Williams Bridgman Copy Share Image
It smells terrible in here.' Well, what do you expect? The human body, when confined, produces certain odors which we tend to… — John Kennedy Toole Copy Share Image
One of the most intensely unlikeable figures of the twentieth century, fanatical anti-Semite, enemy of labour unions and proud recipient of medals… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
The vestiges of pagan religion in Christian symbology are undeniable. Egyptian sun disks became the halos ... The pre-Christian God Mithras ...… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
Is it not the glory of the people of America, that whilst they have paid a decent regard to the opinions of… — James Madison Copy Share Image
That man is formed for social life is an observation which, upon our first inquiry, presents itself immediately to our view, and… — Joseph Warren Copy Share Image
Finally, let us not forget the religious character of our origin. Our fathers were brought hither by their high veneration for the… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
It seems to be remarkable that death increases our veneration for the good, and extenuates our hatred for the bad. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“...why do people venerate Einstein or Bill Gates? Clive Bell explains: Genius worship is the inevitable sign of an uncreative age…” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
Veneration of Mark Twain is one of the roots of our current intellectual stalemate. — John Kennedy Toole Copy Share Image
I was summoned by my Country, whose voice I can never hear but with veneration and love. — George Washington Copy Share Image
No man tells his opinion so freely as when he imagines it received with implicit veneration. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Education cannot be effective unless it helps a child to open up himself to life. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
What is deeper than respect and love? That’s what we felt: veneration. — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
“A man who lives with his wife is safer and more venerable than a man who lives with a tramp.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Mix a little mystery with everything, for mystery arouses veneration. — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
