There is an incredible film, 42. It's the incredible story of Jackie Robinson. I have extolled the virtues of this movie to… — Larry King Copy Share Image
Greed has increasingly become a virtue among Wall Street bankers and corporate CEOs in the U.S. Nowhere else in the world do… — Simon Mainwaring Copy Share Image
In Hollywood a girl's virtue is much less important than her hairdo. You're judged by how you look, not by what you… — Marilyn Monroe Copy Share Image
Happiness, then, is co-extensive with contemplation, and the more people contemplate, the happier they are; not incidentally, but in virtue of their… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
When you are asked to love everybody indiscriminately, that is to love people without any standard, to love them regardless of whether… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
They all laugh. We all laugh. And it occurs to me that I might be meeting Tobias's true faction. They are not… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
“Knowledge in the head and virtue in the heart, time devoted to study or business, instead of show and pleasure, are the… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Look, if the picture you get instantly is as beautiful as the picture you get by waiting seven days, then it is… — Edwin Land Copy Share Image
Virtue is not a chemical product... it is a historic product, like language and literature; and this means that if we cease… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
When Nietzsche praises egoism it is always in an aggressive or polemical way, against the virtues, against the virtue of disinterestedness (Z… — Gilles Deleuze Copy Share Image
Good fortune almost always makes some change in a man's behavior - in his manner of speaking and acting. It is a… — Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable Copy Share Image
Facing the darkness, admitting the pain, allowing the pain to be pain, is never easy. This is why courage - big-heartedness -… — Matthew Fox Copy Share Image
We are His children in Very deed, having been born of Him in the spirit, and we have inherited the very attributes… — George F. Richards Copy Share Image
“[I]f the name of wife appears more sacred and more valid, sweeter to me is ever the word friend, or, if thou… — Héloïse Copy Share Image
I would be ok if I found out for sure that if I am in any way superior to a wolf it… — Nomy Arpaly Copy Share Image
Every virtue is a form of obedience to God. Every evil word or act is a form of rebellion against Him. This… — Stephen Neill Copy Share Image
To know what virtue is is not enough; we must endeavor to possess and to practice it, or in some other manner… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Bargaining is a repulsive habit; compromise is one of the highest human virtues - the difference between the two being that the… — George Mikes Copy Share Image
When we look at the world through the eyes of the Master, the world will look so much more beautiful - not… — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Copy Share Image
The concept of physical beauty as a virtue is one of the dumbest, most pernicious and destructive ideas of the Western world,… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
It is a very poor consolation to be told that the man who has given one a bad dinner, or poor wine,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I have a tendency, after a play of mine is produced, to look back on it disparagingly, seeing only its faults; before… — William Inge Copy Share Image
Virtues are often conquered by vices, but their rout is most complete when it is inflicted by other virtues, more militant, more… — R. H. Tawney Copy Share Image
I honor women who are not mothers. They know that motherhood is but one of the realms of womankind. The virtue and… — Russell M. Nelson Copy Share Image
To love with understanding and without understanding. To love blindly, and to folly. To see only what is loveable. To think only… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
The grand principles of virtue and honor, however they may be distorted by arbitrary codes, are the same the world over: and… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Hollywood wants its heroes to be virtuous, but it defines virtue in a way that excludes any action that is self-interested. If… — Alex Tabarrok Copy Share Image
The new life created by the final integration is self-aware yet without ego, capable of inhabiting a body yet not attached to… — Laozi Copy Share Image
The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
It is amusing that a virtue is made of the vice of chastity; and it's a pretty odd sort of chastity at… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
The greatest saints, those richest in grace and virtue will be the most assiduous in praying to the most Blessed Virgin, looking… — Louis de Montfort Copy Share Image
Keith Richards ... was once asked how he came up with all those amazing guitar riffs. His answer? He just starts playing… — Mark Stevenson Copy Share Image
Jehovah, Allah, the Trinity, Jesus, Buddha, are names for a great variety of human virtues, human mystical experiences, human remorses, human compensatory… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Faith is the sense of life, that sense by virtue of which man does not destroy himself, but continues to live on.… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
A noble birth and fortune, though they make not a bad man good, yet they are a real advantage to a worthy… — George Lillo Copy Share Image
The happy man . . . will be always or at least most often employed in doing and contemplating the things that… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
For psychological purposes the most important differences in conation are those in virtue of which the object is revealed as sensed or… — Samuel Alexander Copy Share Image
Honour's a sacred tie, the law of kings, The noble mind's distinguishing perfection That aids and strengthens virtue where it meets her… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
There is no man so great as not to have some littleness more predominant than all his greatness. Our virtues are the… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Conscious virtue is the only solid foundation of all happiness; for riches, power, rank, or whatever, in the common acceptation ofthe word,… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image