Quotes 1401 till 1420 of 1433.
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A person well satisfied with themselves is seldom satisfied with others, and others, rarely are with them.
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A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.
Insecurity of Freedom -
A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.
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A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born.
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An attitude to life which seeks fulfillment in the single-minded pursuit of wealth - in short, materialism - does not fit into this world, because it contains within itself no limiting principle, while the environment in which it is placed is strictly limited.
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An egotist is a person interested in himself than in me!
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An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight... the truly wise person is colorblind.
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As if one could know the good a person is capable of, when one doesn't know the bad he might do.
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Clairvoyant, n.: A person, commonly a woman, who has the power of seeing that which is invisible to her patron - namely, that he is a blockhead.
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Consul. In American politics, a person who having failed to secure an office from the people is given one by the Administration on condition that he leave the country.
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Don't trust the person who has broken faith once.
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Egotist. A person of low taste, more interested in himself than me.
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Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
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Eulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead.
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For what we call illusions are often, in truth, a wider vision of past and present realities -a willing movement of a man's soul with the larger sweep of the world's forces -a movement towards a more assured end than the chances of a single life.
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If a person tells me he has been to the worst places I have no reason to judge him; but if he tells me it was his superior wisdom that enabled him to go there, then I know he is a fraud.
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Ignoramus: A person unacquainted with certain kinds of knowledge familiar to yourself, and having certain other kinds that you know nothing about.
The Devil's Dictionary (1911) -
Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization.
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It is tragic that the Fuehrer should have the whole nation behind him with the single exception of the Army generals. In my opinion it is only by action that they can now atone for their faults of lack of character and discipline.
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