“How I admired people who talked about their vices as though they were distant relatives they'd learn to put up with because… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
He was a foe without hate; a friend without treachery; a soldier without cruelty; a victor without oppression, and a victim without… — Benjamin Harvey Hill Copy Share Image
You can be a great DJ and still be not very good at DJ Hero. And vice-versa: You can have never spun… — DJ Shadow Copy Share Image
That wealth and greatness are often regarded with the respect and admiration which are due only to wisdom and virtue; and that… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
I used to suppose that certain evils could never befall a being in possession of a sound mind; that true virtue supplies… — Charles Brockden Brown Copy Share Image
I've always told Will, 'You can do whatever you want as long as you can look at yourself in the mirror and… — Jada Pinkett Smith Copy Share Image
According to Solomon, life and death are in the power of the tongue; and as Euripides truly affirmeth, every unbridled tongue in… — Walter Raleigh Copy Share Image
The amount of electricity that has been saved in spite of Vice President Cheney saying that efficiency is only a moral virtue… — Stephen Schneider Copy Share Image
... bringing up daughters for nothing but marriage, mingles poison in the cup of domestic life, is traitorous to the virtue of… — Harriot Kezia Hunt Copy Share Image
Discard the protective rags of that vice which you called a virtue: humility. Learn to value yourself, which means: to FIGHT for… — John Galt Copy Share Image
It is time that capital and labor realized that their interests are really comutual, as interdependent as the brain and the body;… — William Cowper Brann Copy Share Image
Prudence is a quality incompatible with vice, and can never be effectively enlisted in its cause. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
It is the restrictions placed on vice by our social code which makes its pursuit so peculiarly agreeable. — Kenneth Grahame Copy Share Image
SATIRE, n. An obsolete kind of literary composition in which the vices and follies of the author's enemies were expounded with imperfect… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
...I normally can't stand vice-free people. They conflate a narcissistic instinct for self-preservation with moral superiority. Plus they suck the life right… — Dennis Lehane Copy Share Image
Require nothing unreasonable of your officers and men, but see that whatever is required be punctually complied with. Reward and punish every… — George Washington Copy Share Image
What makes a hero? Courage, strength, morality, withstanding adversity? Are these the traits that truly show and create a hero? Is the… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
I have a dogmatic certainty: God is in every person's life. God is in everyone's life. Even if the life of a… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Will you tell me how to prevent riches from producing luxury? Will you tell me how to prevent luxury from producing effeminacy,… — John Adams Copy Share Image
The vice-president's tongue is several time zones ahead of his brain. — Christopher Buckley Copy Share Image
I began to learn about the camera and the actors. That gave me a lot of the skills. At the same time,… — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice. So long as men are… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
As his vice president for eight years, I learned more from Ronald Reagan than from anyone I encountered in all my years… — George H. W. Bush Copy Share Image
I have not so great a struggle with my vices, great and numerous as they are, as I have with my impatience.… — John Calvin Copy Share Image