Interest Quote by F. H. Bradley Download Open image “There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.” — F. H. Bradley ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Interest Persons Shock
We are in a race between cooperation and catastrophe, and the threat is outrunning our response. — Sam Nunn Copy Share Image
When tremendous dangers are involved, no one can be blamed for looking to his own interest. — Thucydides Copy Share Image
If we remain one people, under an efficient government, the period is not far off when we may defy material injury from external annoyance;… — George Washington Copy Share Image
When individuals approach one another with deep purposes on both sides they seldom come at once to the matter which they have most at… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
It's no longer possible to find something which will shock other people, because everything has already been done. — Krzysztof Penderecki Copy Share Image
In mindful grief, we become the landing strip that allows any feelings to arrive. Some crash, some land softly. Some harm us, but none… — David Richo Copy Share Image
Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
If you over-react to a crisis legislatively it generally ends in disaster. — Thomas Watson, Jr Copy Share Image
We all have people who are literally one life shock away from going into a crisis. For many of us, we have a buffer… — Dan Schulman Copy Share Image
The force of the blow depends on the resistance. It is sometimes better not to struggle against temptation. Either fly or yield at once. — F. H. Bradley Copy Share Image
The cost of a thing is what I call life which has to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run. — F. H. Bradley Copy Share Image
Religion is rather the attempt to express the complete reality of goodness through every aspect of our being. — F. H. Bradley Copy Share Image
The propriety of some persons seems to consist in having improper thoughts about their neighbors. — F. H. Bradley Copy Share Image
“One cannot remain in LOVE unless PERPETUALLY one falls in LOVE ANEW.” — F. H. Bradley Copy Share Image
True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat. — F. H. Bradley Copy Share Image
It is by a wise economy of nature that those who suffer without change, and whom no one can help, become uninteresting. Yet so… — F. H. Bradley Copy Share Image
Our live experiences, fixed in aphorisms, stiffen into cold epigrams. Our heart's blood, as we write it, turns to mere dull ink. — F. H. Bradley Copy Share Image
We say that a girl with her doll anticipates the mother. It is more true, perhaps, that most mothers are still but children with… — F. H. Bradley Copy Share Image
The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness. — F. H. Bradley Copy Share Image
Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe on instinct. — F. H. Bradley Copy Share Image
For us who are now in power, we need to be challenged to serve the people and ignore our own egos and personal interests… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Right now we're concerned about budget. Right now we're concerned about the prospect of interest rate rise. We're concerned about government corruption, government handing… — Amity Shlaes Copy Share Image
I became a bit of a teacher's pet, and it became known in the school by both faculty and students that I really excelled… — Paul Smith Copy Share Image
Next came the Patent laws. These began in England in 1624; and, in this country, with the adoption of our constitution. Before then [these?],… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
The minimum that most minimalists want leaves in place just the institutions who protect their interests. That's libertarians for you - anarchists who want… — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share Image
Susan B. Anthony must be turning in her grave if she knew that millions of women who have the right to vote are not… — Madeleine M. Kunin Copy Share Image
I really like female singers; I've got zero interest in working with male singers. Any male voice I need to do, I can do. — Devin Townsend Copy Share Image
I could not identify with harming my child or giving up my child. But I could identify with giving up my child if it… — Drea De Matteo Copy Share Image
Human life consists of doing certain things ... to take part in the life of the community; to be able to talk about subjects… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image