“I am fit to capture a unicorn, and I should not be so questioned.” — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
I think there are probably a lot of actors like me who I think probably struggle to feel comfortable in their own… — Jesse Eisenberg Copy Share Image
For no People will tamely surrender their Liberties, nor can they easily be subdued, where Knowledge is diffusd and Virtue preservd .… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
The love of truth, virtue, and the happiness of mankind are specious pretexts, but not the inward principles that set divines at… — George Berkeley Copy Share Image
“St. Augustine hated the Stoics, Dostoevsky hated the Russian Liberals. At first sight this seems a quite inexplicable peculiarity. Both were convinced… — Lev Shestov Copy Share Image
Try to keep your soul always in peace and quiet, always ready for whatever our Lord may wish to work in you.… — Saint Ignatius Copy Share Image
Virtue and genuine graces in themselves speak what no words can utter. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Gilbert Jonas, painter, believed in his star.... His own faith was not, however, without its virtues because it consisted in admitting, in… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Experience shows us Wealth unchaperoned by Virtue is never an innocuous neighbor. — Sappho Copy Share Image
I ran on the platform of moderation and won the election by a large margin. By virtue of the strong mandate that… — Hassan Rouhani Copy Share Image
Earnest in practicing the ordinary virtues, and careful in speaking about them, if, in his practice, he has anything defective, the superior… — Confucius Copy Share Image
In youth, it is common to measure right and wrong by the opinion of the world, and in age, to act without… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Sincere prayer implies that when we ask for any virtue or blessing, we should work for the blessing and cultivate the virtue. — David O. McKay Copy Share Image
Eloquence shows the power and possibility of man. There is one of whom we took no note, but on a certain occasion… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
What makes a man heavy is the gravity of virtue. Without it, man will be so light that he will be drifted… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
I became startled by the extraordinary difference between something whose surface is completely invisible which only makes itself present by virtue of… — Jonathan Miller Copy Share Image
Either... the moving intelligences of the planets are weakest in those that are farthest from the sun, or... there is one moving… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
Humility is not a virtue in a writer, it is an absolute necessity. — James Lee Burke Copy Share Image
Virtue is an angel, but she is a blind one, and must ask Knowledge to show her the pathway that leads to… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
The man or woman who treasures his friends is usually solid gold himself. — Marjorie Holmes Copy Share Image
The probity that scintillizes in the superfices of your persons informs my ratiocinating faculty, in a most stupendous manner, of the radiant… — Francois Rabelais Copy Share Image
Vice stings us even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us even in our pains. — William Cowper Copy Share Image
There can be no final truth in ethics any more than in physics, until the last man has had his experience and… — William James Copy Share Image
The practice of perseverance is the discipline of the noblest virtues. To run well, we must run to the end. It is… — Elias Lyman Magoon Copy Share Image
Virtue comes through contemplation of the divine, and the exercise of philosophy. But it also comes through public service. The one is… — Iain Pears Copy Share Image
There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Virtue is nothing without the trial of temptation, for there is no conflict without an enemy, no victory without strife. — Pope Leo I Copy Share Image
The Art of Peace is based on four Great Virtues: Bravery, Wisdom, Love, and Friendship, symbolized by Fire, Heaven, Earth, and Water. — Morihei Ueshiba Copy Share Image
“The home is the first and most effective place to learn the lessons of life: truth, honor, virtue, self control, the value… — David O. McKay Copy Share Image
After all, the supreme virtue in all art is soul, perhaps it is the only thing which gives art a right to… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
Do not attempt to benefit by rebukes one who boasts of his virtues, for he loves to display himself can not be… — Marcus Eremita Copy Share Image
Faith is the foundation of every virtue that strengthens marriage. — L. Whitney Clayton Copy Share Image
A political conception covers the right to vote, the political virtues, and the good of political life, but it doesn't intend to… — John Rawls Copy Share Image
The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
No power or virtue of man could ever have deserved that what has been fated should not have taken place. — Ammianus Marcellinus Copy Share Image
Industry in art is a necessity - not a virtue - and any evidence of the same, in the production, is a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Among those whose reputation is exhausted in a short time by its own luxuriance are the writers who take advantage of present… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The laws by which the Divine Ruler of the universe has decreed an indissoluble connection between public happiness and private virtue, whatever… — William Cabell Rives Copy Share Image
