Quotes 741 till 760 of 4180.
-
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.
-
Democrats pride themselves on their commitment to science. Citing climate change, they contend that they are the party of truth, while Republicans are 'denialists.' But with respect to genetically modified organisms, many Democrats seem indifferent to science, and to be practicing a denialism of their own - perhaps more so than Republicans.
-
Democrats want to use government power to make people's lives go better; Republicans respond that people know more than politicians do. We think that both might be able to agree that nudging can maintain free markets, and liberty, while also inclining people in good directions.
-
Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.
-
Dictionaries are like watches; the worst is better than none, and the best cannot be expected to be quite true.
-
Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics.
-
Diplomacy is more than saying or doing the right things at the right time, it is avoiding saying or doing the wrong things at any time.
Source: Year to Success -
Discretion in speech is more than eloquence.
-
Discretion of speech is more than eloquence, and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words, or in good order.
-
Disparity in age seems a greater obstacle to an intimate friendship than inequality of fortune.
-
Division has done more to hide Christ from the view of all men than all the infidelity that has ever been spoken.
-
Do a little bit more than average and from that point on our progress multiplies itself out of all proportion to the effort put in.
-
Do anything rather than give yourself to reverie.
-
Do awards change careers? Well, I haven't heard of many stories where that's the case. It's a fun excuse to meet colleagues and celebrate people who've done well that year in certain people's eyes, and it's nothing more than that.
-
Do I catch flak because I'm so much smarter than everyone else? I don't know.
-
Do more than you are being paid to do, and you'll eventually be paid more for what you do.
-
Do not breed. Nothing gives less pleasure than childbearing. Pregnancies are damaging to health, spoil the figure, wither the charms, and it's the cloud of uncertainty forever hanging over these events that darkens a husband's mood.
-
Do not discourage your children from hoarding, if they have a taste to it; whoever lays up his penny rather than part with it for a cake, at least is not the slave of gross appetite; and shows besides a preference always to be esteemed, of the future to the present moment.
-
Do not learn more than you absolutely need to get through life.
-
Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.
All than famous quotes and sayings you will always find on greatest-quotations.com (page 38)
