Long Quote by Aeschylus Download Open image “We spoil ourselves with scruples long as things go well.” — Aeschylus ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Long Scruples Spoil Wells
Our society is dependent on some precarious mechanisms, and they are very dicey. They can easily collapse. — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
I guess one of the great agonies of life is that we are constantly trying to finish that which is unfinishable — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
In our rich consumers' civilization we spin cocoons around ourselves and get possessed by our possessions. — Max Lerner Copy Share Image
We have lived long enough to experience the hollowness of earth and the rottenness of all carnal promises. — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
When you're in danger of losing a thing it becomes precious and when it's around us, it's in tedious abundance and we take it… — John McGahern Copy Share Image
Oh, we are but soft and squishy bags of mortality rolling in a bin of sharp circumstance, leaking life until we collapse, flaccid, into… — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
Perhaps when we're forced to forfeit what we own, we lose any sentimental associations. Perhaps pawning our valuables frees us in the same way… — Sue Grafton Copy Share Image
We all live inside bodies that will deteriorate. But when you look at human beings, they're capable of very decent things: love, loyalty. When… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
Anything we destroy in ourselves we destroy in others. Our falls lower others and throw them down; we owe it to our fellows to… — George Sand Copy Share Image
The fortunate circumstances of our lives are generally found, at last, to be of our own producing. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
There will always be something to ruin our lives, it all depends on what or which finds us first. We are always ripe and… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
Much has been given us, and much will rightfully be expected from us. We have duties to others and duties to ourselves, and we… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.” — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
May dawn, as the proverb goes, bring happy tidings coming from her mother night. — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
In visions of the night, like dropping rain, Descend the many memories of pain. — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
The cure is in the house, not brought by other hands from distant places, but by its own, in agony and blood. — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
The tongue of slander is too prompt with wanton malice to wound the stranger. — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
The holy heaven yearns to wound the earth, and yearning layeth hold on the earth to join in wedlock; the rain, fallen from the… — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
Zeus, first cause, prime mover; for what thing without Zeus is done among mortals? — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
God planteth in mortal men the cause of sin whensoever he wills utterly to destroy a house. — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
Human prosperity never rests but always craves more, till blown up with pride it totters and falls. From the opulent mansions pointed at by… — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
It appears to me that one great cause of our difference in opinion on subjects which we often discuss is that you have always… — David Ricardo Copy Share Image
Only within yourself exists the other reality for which you long. I can give you nothing that has not already its being within yourself.… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
I would borrow money all day long, if the cost of borrowing is less than the expected return. — Brad Schneider Copy Share Image
Regardless of the criticisms I receive from the left, the right and the middle, I think it's important to maintain a prolific writing jab,… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
Contradictory precepts that have guided me for as long as I can remember: 1: I will live forever. 2: I will die tomorrow. — Howard Gardner Copy Share Image
Public infrastructure around the world is facing unprecedented stress, with hurricanes, cyclones, floods and forest fires all increasing in frequency and intensity. It's easy… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
The real world out there isn't nearly as nice as some people prefer it to be, so don't swallow everything your high-born teachers tell… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As a child, I had a lot of older gay men taking care of me. There's a trust there. I feel like little girls… — Margaret Cho Copy Share Image
[The Dalai Lama] told me some years ago, "I've made every concession to China, and I've been as open and tolerant as I could,… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
I genuinely did not expect more than half our nation to choose to walk away from our long-term allies into the arms of our… — Brian Reade Copy Share Image
Long before the 2016 presidential campaign, confidential sources had alerted me to longstanding misuses of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court system and the erosion… — Sharyl Attkisson Copy Share Image
History has often showed us the strength of the forces that are unleashed by the yearning for freedom. It moved people to overcome their… — Angela Merkel Copy Share Image
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