Character Quote by Garth Nix Download Open image “Charity is a very labour-intensive virtue.” — Garth Nix ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Character Charity Generosity Labour Virtue
Organized charity itself is. . . the surest sign that our civilization has bred, is breeding and is perpetuating constantly increasing numbers of defectives,… — Margaret Sanger Copy Share Image
Paying good wages is not charity at all-it is the best kind of business. — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
You are much surer that you are doing good when you pay money to those who work, as the recompense of their labor, than… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Charity itself consists in acting justly and faithfully in whatever office, business and employment a person is engaged in. — Emanuel Swedenborg Copy Share Image
True charity is the desire to be useful to others without thought of recompense — Emanuel Swedenborg Copy Share Image
charity is a calm, severe duty; it must be intellectual, to be advantageous. It is a strange mistake that it should ever be considered… — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
What I am fighting is the idea that charity is a moral duty and a primary virtue. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Charity is that rational and constant affection which makes us sacrifice ourselves to the human race, as if we were united with it, so… — Confucius Copy Share Image
Charity is great, but the moment you say it is all, you run the risk of running into materialism. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Death and what came after death was no great mystery to Sabriel. She just wished it was. — Garth Nix Copy Share Image
“Choosers will be beggars if the begging's not their choosing," said the Dog "What does that mean?" "I have no idea," said the Dog” — Garth Nix Copy Share Image
Time plays tricks between here and home," said Mogget sepulchrally, frightening the life out of the telephone operator. — Garth Nix Copy Share Image
“Mmmmmm, said Ardent [the Royal Dog]. He liked cooked food. Also raw food and semicooked food, and things that might be food and so… — Garth Nix Copy Share Image
I enjoyed the army reserve, and I learned a lot from it, but I also... it helped me work out that I didn't want… — Garth Nix Copy Share Image
“If I'm not back by nightfall, come and take a very careful look, said Anya. But I don't expect to need rescuing. I'm not… — Garth Nix Copy Share Image
“Come, said Tanitha. Come to the Great Hall, and we will lie down with the puppies, and I will tell you a story. One… — Garth Nix Copy Share Image
So I'll do that, and I'll do my best and if my best isn't good enough, at least I will have done everything I… — Garth Nix Copy Share Image
He was obviously a very arrogant ragamuffin, and younger than she was, to boot. And he was wearing a necromancer's bells! Apart from that,… — Garth Nix Copy Share Image
“she still felt she was a librarian and always would be, no matter what else she had become as well. “We” — Garth Nix Copy Share Image
“I don't want to be that kind of sorcerer, said Anya swiftly. Besides, you wouldn't...you wouldn't love me then, would you? We will always… — Garth Nix Copy Share Image
Fear and realisation of ignorance, strong medicines against stupid pride. — Garth Nix Copy Share Image
Social responsibility above the level of family, or at most of tribe, requires imagination-- devotion, loyalty, all the higher virtues -- which a man… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I'm often moved by the circumstances around some of my characters, but I don't think I've actually cried watching myself. — Kate Winslet Copy Share Image
When you're on a daytime drama you get one page, you better damn well know your character. You better know what she would do… — David Hudgins Copy Share Image
It can sometimes make people fold into themselves and kind of run away, but I think in this case these characters are being forced… — Emily Deschanel Copy Share Image
If you are well-mannered towards those whose views are similar to yours, you may be said to exhibit a fairly good character. But, if… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Democracy is based on the conviction that man has the moral and intellectual capacity, as well as the inalienable right, to govern himself with… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
In the fight between biology and morality, biology has commonly won in the end. — Semir Zeki Copy Share Image
Your looks don't make you pretty, it's the person inside who makes you pretty! — Aaron Chan Copy Share Image
I'm not a huge social media kind of guy, so I don't really know, I don't really ever get... at least in real life,… — Freddie Stroma Copy Share Image
If you stood me in a costume next to a computer graphic of the same-looking character, I think there would be a difference. And… — Warwick Davis Copy Share Image
