Quotes 421 till 440 of 5396.
-
A silly idea is current that good people do not know what temptation means. This is an obvious lie. Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is.... A man who gives in to temptation after five minutes simply does not know what it would have been like an hour later. That is why bad people, in one sense, know very little about badness. They have lived a sheltered life by always giving in.
-
A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.
-
A single idea, if it is right, saves us the labor of an infinity of experiences.
-
A society in which all men and women would become people of substantive reason, whose independent reasoning would have structural consequences for their societies, its history and thus for their own life fates.
The Sociological Imagination (1959) -
A society that has made ''nostalgia'' a marketable commodity on the cultural exchange quickly repudiates the suggestion that life in the past was in any important way better than life today.
-
A special ability means a heavy expenditure of energy in a particular direction, with a consequent drain from some other side of life.
Modern Man in Search of a Soul (1933) -
A store of grain, Oh king is the best of treasures. A gem put in your mouth will not support life.
-
A sudden violent jolt of it has been known to stop the victim's watch, snap his suspenders and crack his glass eye right across.
-
A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.
-
A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise.
-
A tiny blue dot set in a sunbeam. Here it is. That's where we live. That's home. We humans are one species and this is our world. It is our responsibility to cherish it. Of all the worlds in our solar system, the only one so far as we know, graced by life.
Cosmos: A Personal Voyage (1990) 58 min 56 sec -
A true architect is not an artist but an optimistic realist. They take a diverse number of stakeholders, extract needs, concerns, and dreams, then create a beautiful yet tangible solution that is loved by the users and the community at large. We create vessels in which life happens.
-
A typical day in the life of a heavy metal musician consists of a round of golf and an AA meeting.
-
A useful definition of liberty is obtained only by seeking the principle of liberty in the main business of human life, that is to say, in the process by which men educate their responses and learn to control their environment.
-
A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life.
-
A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
-
A wicked mortal is not the idea of God. He is little else than the expression of error. To suppose that sin, lust, hatred, envy, hypocrisy, revenge, have life abiding in them, is a terrible mistake. Life and Life's idea, Truth and Truth's idea, never make men sick, sinful, or mortal.
-
A woman's body is the gate to this life. A man's body is the gate to the next life.
-
A woman's life is not perfect or whole till she has added herself to a husband. Nor is a man's life perfect or whole till he has added to himself a wife.
All right-to-life famous quotes and sayings you will always find on greatest-quotations.com (page 22)
