Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“compassion is a wonderful virtue but don’t waste it on those undeserving.” — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
You have to have something vicious in you to be a creative writersomething old-adamish, incompatible to the "ordinary world. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
All of those who inhabit the world have a right to be here by virtue of their being here at all. To… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
“Respond to anger with virtue. Deal with difficulties while they are still easy. Handle the great while it is still small.” — Lao Tzu Copy Share Image
One of the most annoying habits of liberals is their tendency to confuse their political agenda with moral virtue. — Robert Stacy McCain Copy Share Image
One principal characteristic of vice in the present age is the contempt of fame. — Thomas Gray Copy Share Image
Wherever I see some mystique, be it virtue or family, faith or fatherland, there I must commit some indecent act. — Witold Gombrowicz Copy Share Image
The lines we draw that make us who we are are potent by virtue of being non-negotiable, and even, at some level,… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
Without God, there is no virtue because there is no prompting of the conscience... without God, there is a coarsening of the… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
So often I heard people paying blind obeisance to change - as though it had some virtue of its own. Change or… — Judith Perelman Rossner Copy Share Image
We may daily discover crowds acquire sufficient wealth to buy gentility, but very few that possess the virtues which ennoble human nature,… — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
The virtue of gay equality has become increasingly recognized in the U.S. because people have been persuaded of its merits, not because… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
“Courage is not a virtue or value among other personal values like love or fidelity. It is the foundations that underlies and… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
[The South] is ****ed for its virtues and praised for its faults, and there are those who wish its annihilation. But most… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
If you believe, as I do, that the scope and range of presidential authority is great, that puts a lot of weight… — Benjamin Wittes Copy Share Image
Kindness is a virtue neither modern nor urban. One almost unlearns it in a city. Towns have their own beatitude; they are… — Phyllis McGinley Copy Share Image
What we take ourselves to be doing when we think about what is the case or how we should act is something… — Thomas Nagel Copy Share Image
My friend is one who takes me for what I am. A stranger takes me for something else than what I am.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Elevated levels of confidence are omnipresent among history's greatest overachievers. Benjamin Franklin, one of the most famous men in the world even… — John Eliot Copy Share Image
Remember, the left corrupts everything, folks. The Democrat Party, the left corrupts every institution. They politicize it, and by virtue of that… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
We have conferred a mystic popularity upon officials whose only virtue is their timidity; while our scorn of rebels and reformers is… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
It came to me…that I didn’t want to be anywhere else in the world at that moment, that what I was feeling… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
Compassion is not a popular virtue. Very often when I talk to religious people, and mention how important it is that compassion… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
If you want to sin, sin wholeheartedly and openly. Sins too have their lessons to teach the earnest sinner, as virtues the… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image