He knows which fighters to steal, how to exploit anyone's vice, vanity or insecurity and make a profit for himself. — Jack Newfield Copy Share Image
I used to smoke cigarettes, ten a day, but gave up when I was 28. Now my vice is several cups of… — Britt Ekland Copy Share Image
In sum, all actions and habits are to be esteemed good or evil by their causes and usefulness in reference to the… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
The mass State has no intention of promoting mutual understanding and the relationship of man to man; it strives, rather, for atomization,… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Therefore, in order not to have to rob his subjects, to be able to defend himself, not to become poor and contemptible,… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
False modesty is the masterpiece of vanity: showing the vain man in such an illusory light that he appears in the reputation… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
The vices enter into the composition of the virtues, as poisons into that of medicines. Prudence collects and arranges them, and uses… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Society is immoral and immortal; it can afford to commit any kind of folly, and indulge in any sort of vice; it… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
As you all know by now, Barack Obama sent out a cell phone text message at 3 a.m. on Saturday morning to… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
There is nothing - no program, no hobby, no vice, no crime - that does not 'create jobs'. Tsunamis, computer viruses and… — Chris Horner Copy Share Image
The object of a comedy is not to correct morals or ridicule the vices of society; no, a comedy should depict the… — Vissarion Belinsky Copy Share Image
Is it not High Time for the People of this Country explicitly to declare, whether they will be Freemen or Slaves? It… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
All... religions show the same disparity between belief and practice, and each is safe till it tries to exclude the rest. Test… — Thomas Wentworth Higginson Copy Share Image
The archiepiscopal throne of Macedonius, which had been polluted with so much Christian blood, was successively filled by Eudoxus and Damophilus. Their… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Heaven preserve me from littleness and pleasantness and smoothness. Give me great glaring vices, and great glaring virtues, but preserve me from… — Violet Trefusis Copy Share Image
Stoutly as we may affirm that our disasters and vices are chargeable to luck, we never dream of ascribing our meritorious deeds,… — William Matthews Copy Share Image
Existence permeates sexuality and vice versa, so that it is impossible to determine, in a given decision or action, the proportion of… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty Copy Share Image
The dangers of apparent self-sufficiency explain why Our Lord regards the vices of the feckless and dissipated so much more leniently than… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
One may disavow and disclaim vices that surprise us and whereto our passions transport us. But those which by long habit are… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
A director could be 20 years old and an actor 60, or vice versa; it doesn't matter. It's about connecting sensibility and… — Juliette Binoche Copy Share Image
With comics it's very close, like, "I don't want to say anything onstage that I wouldn't say offstage." Or vice versa. I… — Neal Brennan Copy Share Image
Interactivity has the virtue of democracy, conferring upon everyone with access to a computer the right and opportunity to be heard, but… — Wendy Kaminer Copy Share Image
I'm not looking to be anyone's vice president. I looking to be the president of the United States. Or, I'll be a… — Marco Rubio 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
When liberals start acting like they're opposed to pre-marital sex and mothers having careers, you know McCain's vice presidential choice has knocked… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
We have observed for thirty centuries that a large nose is a sign on the door of our face that says 'Herein… — Cyrano de Bergerac Copy Share Image
Who knows whether, if I had given up smoking, I should really have become the strong perfect man I imagined? Perhaps it… — Italo Svevo Copy Share Image
Life was certainly more entertaining when people were indulging their vices as opposed to going to meetings to indulge in a new… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
I don't believe in any form of unjustified extremism! But when a man is exercising extremism -- a human being is exercising… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Howard Dean was endorsed by former Vice President Al Gore and now he is getting advice from Al Gore. And I'm thinking,… — David Letterman Copy Share Image
Sarah Palin has managed to use her failed vice presidential run to put herself in a position of power and influence. Joe… — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
No parent can consistently teach faith in Christ who profanes the name of Deity. Profanity is never heard in the well-ordered home.… — David O. McKay Copy Share Image
The very idea that there is no truth, but only the filter of narrative through which truth is invented is something I… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
The passions are the seeds of vices as well as of virtues, from which either may spring, accordingly as they are nurtured.… — Ann Radcliffe Copy Share Image
Near this spot are deposited the remains of one who possessed beauty without vanity, strength without insolence, courage without ferocity, and all… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
.. that which renders morality an active principle and constitutes virtue our happiness, and vice our misery: it is probable, I say,… — David Hume Copy Share Image
There is something deeply attractive, at least to quite a lot of people, about squalor, misery, and vice. They are regarded as… — Theodore Dalrymple Copy Share Image
Aspects that we consider normal today could very well be repugnant in the future - eating animals, for one thing, or abundant… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
As a stick, when once it is dry and stiff you may break it, but you can never bend it into a… — Isaac Barrow Copy Share Image
I have something else to ask you-to ask every American. I ask for you to pray for this great nation. I ask… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
