So much of our lives is given over to the consideration of our imperfections that there is no time to improve our… — Edward Dahlberg Copy Share Image
We haven't time to spare to hear whether it was between Italy and Sicily that he ran into a storm or somewhere… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
He who seeks to regulate everything by law is more likely to arouse vices than to reform them. It is best to… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
I quit smoking the day I found out I was pregnant, which was nine years ago. But I'll still smoke in a… — Jean Smart Copy Share Image
The three great American vices seem to be efficiency, punctuality, and the desire for achievement and success. They are the things that… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
There are, then, three states of mind ... two vices--that of excess, and that of defect; and one virtue--the mean; and all… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Nietzsche himself was a great moralist; his writings abound with value judgments about individuals, character types, modes of thinking, and national traits.… — John Carroll Copy Share Image
Kraken' is a very undisciplined book. That's a gamble. If it doesn't come off, it's disastrous. But there are pleasures, I think,… — China Mieville Copy Share Image
I have seen myself lose intolerance, narrowness, bigotry, complacence, pride and a whole bushel-basket of other intellectual vices through my contact with… — Luther Burbank Copy Share Image
Tolerance is a virtue, but like all virtues, when exaggerated, it transforms itself into a vice. We need to be careful of… — Boyd K. Packer Copy Share Image
Kant's description of most ethical duties reads more like a description of moral virtues and vices. Once we see this, we see… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
From the oyster to the eagle, from the swine to the tiger, all animals are to be found in men and each… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“… the vices and wickedness of the Secular Era, some of which still lingered, he said, in the cities of the East… — Robert Charles Wilson Copy Share Image
When George Bush Senior [George HW Bush] was getting his alliance together to go into Iraq - to kick the Iraqis out… — Bob Hawke Copy Share Image
He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet… — John Milton Copy Share Image
We find nothing easier than being wise, patient, superior. We drip with the oil of forbearance and sympathy, we are absurdly just,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
What a commentary on our civilization, when being alone is considered suspect; when one has to apologize for it, make excuses, hide… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
Luxury and dissipation, soft and gentle as their approaches are, and silently as they throw their silken chains about the heart, enslave… — Hannah More Copy Share Image
It seems to me that liberal and humane people, of whom there are many among us, would, if they were asked to… — Judith N. Shklar Copy Share Image
And what more should I say since it expels the whole host of the virtues from the chamber of the human heart… — Peter Damian Copy Share Image
Satan is attacking the great institutions of America, using those great vices of pride, vanity, and sensuality as the root to attack… — Rick Santorum Copy Share Image
The virtues of society are vices of the saint. The terror of reform is the discovery that we must cast away our… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There was only today to throw yourself into without thinking about tomorrow, let alone forever. To keep you from thinking, there was… — Paula McLain Copy Share Image
Maintain a good balance. A personal life adds dimensions to your professional life and vice versa. It helps nurture creativity through a… — Kathy Ireland Copy Share Image
As has been well documented, I smoked pot as a kid, and I view it as a bad habit and a vice,… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I think the chair's job is to be fair and I think the job of all of the vice chairs is to… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
My dad challenged every president from President [Dwight] Eisenhower and Vice President [Richard] Nixon to President [J.F] Kennedy, Vice President [Lindon] Johnson… — Al Sharpton Copy Share Image
Al Gore, the former vice-president of the United States, lives in a mansion that uses more electricity than the average family's bungalow!… — Linwood Barclay Copy Share Image
Change a virtue in its circumstances find it becomes a vice; change a vice in its circumstances, and it becomes a virtue.… — Hippolyte Taine Copy Share Image
If misery be the effect of virtue, it ought to be reverenced; if of ill-fortune, to be pitied; and if of vice,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Let parents who hate their offspring rear them to hate labor, and to inherit riches; and before long they will be stung… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Mr. Chairman, delegates, and fellow citizens: I am honored by the support of this convention for vice president of the United States.… — Paul Ryan Copy Share Image
I would ask Donald Trump why every single person in his cabinet has spoken out publicly - and his vice president -… — Andy Cohen Copy Share Image
Lower oil prices won't, by themselves, topple the mullahs in Iran. But it's significant that, historically, when oil prices have been low,… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
Amplification is the vice of modern oratory. It is an insult to an assembly of reasonable men, disgusting and revolting instead ofpersuading.… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I've already heard from some military commanders who feel they've been undercut by the vice president of the United States, and there's… — John McCain Copy Share Image
Alas, human vices, however horrible one might imagine them to be, contain the proof (were it only in their infinite expansion) of… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
We feel something like respect for consistency even in error. We lament the virtue that is debauched into a vice; but the… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
No writer besides Shakespeare has created more memorable characters attached to vices and virtues. In even their least sympathetic characters, one senses… — Roger Rosenblatt Copy Share Image
What vice could be worse than covetousness? What is more sinful than slander? For one who is truthful, what need is there… — Chanakya Copy Share Image
![“When George Bush Senior [George HW Bush] was getting his alliance together to go into Iraq - to kick the Iraqis out of Kuwait - he rang me up. I was very close to George Bush Senior; I got to know him well as Vice President to Ronald Reagan. And George rang me up and said, "Oh, Bob," he said, "I'm…” quote by Bob Hawke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8ce/bob-hawke-7891_alliances_when-george-bush-senior-george-hw-bush-w_980032.jpg)
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