Doubt, or the absence of faith and naivete, is a vice peculiar to this age, for no one is obedient nowadays; and… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
If you have not chosen me by secret ballot, neither have I gained office by any secret promises. I have not campaigned… — Gerald R. Ford Copy Share Image
The fundamental reality for every worker, from sweeper to executive vice-president, is the eight hours or so that he spends on the… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
As long as the vice of gluttony has a hold on a man, all that he has done valiantly is forfeited by… — Pope Gregory I Copy Share Image
Yorkie has officially retired about 5 times... The man's a clown... People are going on about the game and agents and directors… — Roy Keane Copy Share Image
Who has a book of all that monarchs do, He's more secure to keep it shut than shown; For vice repeated is… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
As the vice-regents of God, we are to bring His truth and His … dominion … over our neighborhoods, our schools, our… — D. James Kennedy Copy Share Image
Vice-President Ford, possibly preparing for higher duties, assessed Kissinger's part in the Syrian-Israeli troop disengagement as "the great diplomatic triumph of this… — Edwin Newman Copy Share Image
The higher mental activities are pretty tough and resilient, but it is a devastating experience if the drive does stop. Some people… — John Edensor Littlewood Copy Share Image
As soon as you put men together, they somehow sink, corporatively, below the level of the worst of the individuals composing it.… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
Though we may sometimes unintentionally bestow our beneficence on the unworthy, it does not take from the merit of the act. For… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
Last night's vice presidential debate between Joe Biden and Sarah Palin drew much higher ratings than the presidential debate. Did you know… — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
In Catholicism, you learn to worship a superior god that creates, who organizes and creates. And when you do novels, you have… — Carmen Boullosa Copy Share Image
It seems very unfortunate that in order to secure political preference, people are made Vice President who are never intended, neither by… — Omar N. Bradley Copy Share Image
As regards this vice, we read that the peacock is more guilty of it than any other animal. For it is always… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
An element of exaggeration clings to the popular judgment: great vices are made greater, great virtues greater also; interesting incidents are made… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
We must define flattery and praise; they are distinct. Trajan was encouraged to virtue by the panegyric Pliny; Tiberius became obstinate in… — Louis XVI of France Copy Share Image
Former vice president Al Gore has devoted his post-administration years to a mission to tell the world about global warming. It's funny,… — Graydon Carter Copy Share Image
As a dad, you are the Vice President of the executive branch of parenting. It doesn't matter what your personality is like,… — Jim Gaffigan Copy Share Image
President Bush gave me a tremendous opportunity to serve as the vice president. I enjoyed very much having the opportunity to be… — Dick Cheney Copy Share Image
Since there are thousands of fairy tales, one may safely guess that there are probably equal numbers where the courage and determination… — Bruno Bettelheim Copy Share Image
It is vice to go to bed with someone you are not married to or have someone of your own sex or… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect change is the way to perfect them. It gets the name of wilfulness when it… — Owen Feltham Copy Share Image
He cannot "tempt" to virtue as we do to vice. He wants them to learn to walk and must therefore take away… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The vices of which we are full we carefully hide from others, and we flatter ourselves with the notion that they are… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Society is produced by our wants, and government by wickedness; the former promotes our happiness positively by uniting our affections, the latter… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
A rake is a composition of all the lowest, most ignoble, degrading, and shameful vices; they all conspire to disgrace his character,… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Dr. Roboy, in Litvak's measured view, had a vice common to believers: He was all strategy and no tactics. He was prone… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
A couple of Donald Trump people, including his vice presidential running mate, Mike Pence, the governor of Indiana, and of course, Dr.… — Chris Matthews Copy Share Image
Love is a virtue; it grows stronger and purer and less selfish by applying it to what it loathes; but theft is… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
Why'd he name Ram Dass that? And Krishna Das that, instead of vice versa? Is Krishna Das more Krishna like and Ram… — Surya Das Copy Share Image
The good man, though a slave, is free; the wicked, though he reigns, is a slave, and not the slave of a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Appearing better than others is always dangerous, but most dangerous of all is to appear to have no faults or weaknesses. It… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
Certainly, I know what to do, and when I am Vice President -- and I will be -- there will be contingency… — Dan Quayle Copy Share Image
The word of God is full of sad and grave counsel, full of the knowledge of God, of examples of virtues, and… — John Jewel Copy Share Image
As we think of power in the 21st century, we want to get away from the idea that power’s always zero sum… — Joseph Nye Copy Share Image
I am not interested in being vice president of the United States. I've let the candidate know. If the candidate asks me… — Brian Williams Copy Share Image
My grandmother had a Miss Margaret's School of Dance to teach tap and ballet to kids, but I never studied it. I… — Michelle Shocked Copy Share Image
The vice of envy is not only a dangerous, but a mean vice; for it is always a confession of inferiority. It… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I'm with someone who's got very high standards, and he doesn't tolerate all these ridiculous vices very easily. That's not reason enough… — Chrissie Hynde Copy Share Image