Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have a right to do and what is right to do.
I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment.
Marcel Marceau
The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity.
Leo Tolstoy
I'm very ambitious. I live in reality but I have dreams I want to fulfill - I want to be a director, and I've already started my own production company. But I also have a measure of success that I keep to myself. It's something very personal to me.
Alex Pettyfer
Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us all without words?
Oh, why will parents always appear at the wrong time? Some extraordinary mistake in nature, I suppose.
Oscar Wilde
I hope SeaWorld is exploring how, like Ringling, it can get out of the wild animal business.
Ingrid Newkirk
If the worker and his boss enjoy the same television program and visit the same resort places, if the typist is as attractively made up as the daughter of her employer, if the Negro owns a Cadillac, if they all read the same newspaper, then this assimilation indicates not the disappearance of classes, but the extent to which the needs and satisfactions that serve the preservation of the Establishment are shared by the underlying population.
Herbert Marcuse
Freedom of enterprise was from the beginning not altogether a blessing. As the liberty to work or to starve, it spelled toil, insecurity, and fear for the vast majority of the population. If the individual were no longer compelled to prove himself on the market, as a free economic subject, the disappearance of this freedom would be one of the greatest achievements of civilization.
It is easy to forget how full the world is of people, full to bursting, and each of them imaginable and consistently misimagined.
John Green
Obscenity is a moral concept in the verbal arsenal of the establishment, which abuses the term by applying it, not to expressions of its own morality but to those of another.
It is, in the imagination of combat's fans, the divinely listless loveplay that follows the orgasm of victory. It is called 'mopping up.
Kurt Vonnegut
What does education often do? It makes a straight cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
Henry David Thoreau
I've always said that in politics, your enemies can't hurt you, but your friends will kill you.
Ann Richards
It used to be that you'd have a song recorded by a major country artist and if it was a hit, you could buy a car. Now you can buy a dealership.
Tom T. Hall
Passion is of the nature of seed, and finds nourishment within, tending to a predominance which determines all currents towards itself, and makes the whole life its tributary.
George Eliot
Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.
Declarations of love amuse me. Especially when unrequited.
Cassandra Clare
A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom.
Roald Dahl
If I don't make the team out of spring training, I'll keep a good attitude. I'll just go polish up the parts of my game that made me not stay in the big leagues.
Cory Lidle
The reality of the other person lies not in what he reveals to you but in what he cannot reveal to you. Therefore, if you would understand him, listen not to what he says but rather to what he does not say.
Kahlil Gibran
I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind.
Thomas Jefferson
I wouldn't say I'm a very original thinker, but if I have a good experience with something, I'll want to take it further or adapt it in some way.
Gwyneth Paltrow
Idiots, the lame, the blind, the dumb, are men in whom the devils have established themselves: and all the physicians who heal these infirmities, as though they proceeded from natural causes, are ignorant blockheads
Martin Luther King Jr.
We believe that what we possess we don't ultimately own. God is merely entrusting it to us. And one of the conditions of that trust is that we share what we have with those who have less. So, if you don't give to people in need, you can hardly call yourself a Jew. Even the most unbelieving Jew knows that.
Jonathan Sacks
As far as he could see, the drawings were simply alive. They might be colored earth on rock, but they were as alive as the kangaroo that'd just hopped away.
Terry Pratchett
The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.
H. L. Mencken
Hope springs eternal, even in politics.
Gwen Ifill
Success, recognition, and conformity are the bywords of the modern world where everyone seems to crave the anesthetizing security of being identified with the majority.
We speak that what we know and testify to that which we have seen.
Bible
The stroke of the whip maketh marks in the flesh: but the stroke of the tongue breaketh the bones. Many have fallen by the edge of the sword: but not so many as have fallen by the tongue. Ecclesiasticus 28:17 --18
I was raised on comic books, and I love science fiction.
Mayim Bialik
Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man. Colossians 4:6
The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects.
Leonardo da Vinci
Listen: The waitress brought me another drink. She wanted to light my hurricane lamp again. I wouldn't let her. Can you see anything in the dark, with your sunglasses on? she asked me. The big show is inside my head, I said
Not by might, or power, but by my spirit, says the Lord.
A threefold cord is not quickly broken.
The truly good and wise man will bear all kinds of fortune in a seemly way, and will always act in the noblest manner that the circumstances allow.
Aristotle
But if you can create an honorable livelihood, where you take your skills and use them and you earn a living from it, it gives you a sense of freedom and allows you to balance your life the way you want.
Anita Roddick
Paul, thou art beside thyself; much learning doth make thee mad. Acts 26:24
Study to be quiet, and to do your own business. 1 Thessalonians 4:11
Copyrighted © 2021 — Quotation.io. All rights reserved.
