Quotes 13821 till 13840 of 13894.
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The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.
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The greater amount of truth is impulsively uttered; thus the greater amount is spoken, not written.
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The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.
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The habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental deficiency. It proceeds from not knowing what is going on in other people's minds.
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The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff.
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The impulse to write things down is a peculiarly compulsive one, inexplicable to those who do not share it.
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The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.
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The Left masks its distaste for the Bible's condemnation of homosexuality in a straw man argument that Bible believers are violent bigots. They are not. Citing the Bible doesn't make you a bigot against human beings - it makes you a bigot against sin, which is a good thing.
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The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.
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The man or woman who is wholly or joyously surrendered to Christ can't make a wrong choice-any choice will be the right one.
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The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome. The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse.
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The most fundamental liberal failure of the current era: the failure to embrace a moral vision of America based on the transcendent faith that human beings are more than the sum of their material appetites, our country is more than an economic machine, and freedom is not license but responsibility.
Source: For Americas Sake, speech 12 December 2006, Moyers on Democracy -
The ocean is a body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills.
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The one thing that a fish can never find is water; and the one thing that man can never find is God.
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The patient is not likely to recover who makes the doctor his heir.
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The perfect no-stress environment is the grave. When we change our perception we gain control. The stress becomes a challenge, not a threat. When we commit to action, to actually doing something rather than feeling trapped by events, the stress in our life becomes manageable.
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The poor man looks upon the law as an enemy, not as a friend. For him, the law is always taking something away.
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The praise that comes from love does not make us vain, but more humble.
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The real stumbling-block of totalitarian régimes is not the spiritual need of men for freedom of thought; it is men's inability to stand the physical and nervous strain of a permanent state of excitement, except during a few years of their youth.
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The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, not to worry about the future, or not to anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.
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