Compound Quotes

164 quotes by 138 authors

What an antithetical mind! - tenderness, roughness - delicacy, coarseness - sentiment, sensuality - soaring and groveling, dirt and deity - all mixed up in… — Lord Byron
There are few things wholly evil or wholly good. Almost everything, especially of government policy, is an inseparable compound of the two, so that our… — Abraham Lincoln
A perfect life is a contradiction in terms. Life itself is a state of continuous struggle between ourselves and everything outside. Every moment we are… — Swami Vivekananda
I told them [the producers] I couldn't compound the lie that Black fathers don't care about their children. I was proud of the family life… — Esther Rolle
Hussein praised his sons for putting up a brave fight, noting that U.S. forces had surrounded their compound with advanced weaponry, ground troops and warplanes.… — Ann Coulter
Mitt Romney comes from a Mormon background. I don't know how many wives he has. I'm not saying that I believe in that, I'm just… — Bill Maher
Which is why I'd like to tip off law enforcement to an even larger child-abusing religious cult. Its leader also has a compound. And this… — Bill Maher
Prison is quite literally a ghetto in the most classic sense of the word, a place where the U.S. government now puts not only the… — Piper Kerman
If you deceive me once shame on you because I have trusted you once and you have deceived me, if you deceive me twice shame… — Olusegun Obasanjo
As to the Christian system of faith, it appears to me as a species of Atheism â€” a sort of religious denial of God. It… — Thomas Paine
You keep thinking that with practice you will eventually get the knack of enjoying superficial encounters, that you will stop looking for the universal solvent,… — Jay McInerney
Teams make you better than you are, multiply your value, enable you to do what you do best, allow you to help others do their… — John C. Maxwell
It is praiseworthy to be brave and fearless, but sometimes it is better to be a coward. We often stand in the compound of a… — Chinua Achebe
The only way past the pain is through it. Pain, grief, anger, misery...they don't go away-they just increase and compound and get worse. You have… — Jasinda Wilder
Searching for the self when I was entirely alone was hazardous. What if I found not so much a great emptiness as a space full… — Doris Grumbach
Our society will always remain an unstable and explosiveÂ compound as long asÂ political power is vested in the masses and economic power in the… — Irving Fisher
True progress lies in the direction of decentralization, both territorial and functional, in the development of the spirit of local and personal initiative, and of… — Peter Kropotkin
Iraqi commandos landed at George W. Bush's compound, assassinated him, and dumped his body in the Atlantic. — Noam Chomsky
The anthropologist must relinquish his comfortable position in the long chair on the veranda of the missionary compound, Government station, or planter's bungalow, where, armed… — Bronislaw Malinowski
The biggest thing is getting our guys to understand, you can't let one mistake compound into another mistake — Thad Matta

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