Quotes 5181 till 5200 of 10005.
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No man, perhaps, is so wicked as to commit evil for its own sake. Evil is generally committed under the hope of some advantage the pursuit of virtue seldom obtains. Yet the most successful result of the most virtuous heroism is never without its alloy.
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No man, who continues to add something to the material, intellectual and moral well-being of the place in which he lives, is left long without proper reward.
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No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good one's sentiments may be, if one has not taken advantage of every concrete opportunity to act, one's character may remain entirely unaffected for the better.
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No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not.
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No matter how prepared you think you are for the death of a loved one, it still comes as a shock, and it still hurts very deeply.
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No matter how vast, how total, the failure of man here on earth, the work of man will be resumed elsewhere. War leaders talk of resuming operations on this front and that, but man's front embraces the whole universe.
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No matter what a man does, he is not fully sane or human unless there is a spirit of freedom in him, a soul unconfined by purpose and larger than the practicable world.
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No modest man ever did or ever will make a fortune.
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No one - apart from my agent, perhaps - should leave one of my shows in tears.
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No one as ever completed their apprenticeship.
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No one asks you to throw Mozart out of the window. Keep Mozart. Cherish him. Keep Moses too, and Buddha and Lao Tzu and Christ. Keep them in your heart. But make room for the others, the coming ones, the ones who are already scratching on the window-panes.
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No one bothered reading the books and understanding - and again, I'm not being high-falutin' about it - but I think our books are great literature with great metaphors of real life dealing with fears and hopes.
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No one but a fool would measure their satisfaction by what the world thinks of it.
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No one can arrive from being talented alone, work transforms talent into genius.
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No one can be an unbeliever nowadays. The Christian Apologists have left one nothing to disbelieve.
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No one can be as calculatedly rude as the British, which amazes Americans, who do not understand studied insult and can only offer abuse as a substitute.
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No one can be brave who considers pain to be the greatest evil in life, or can they be temperate who considers pleasure to be the highest good.
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No one can be despised by another until he has learned to despise himself.
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No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.
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