Quotes 301 till 320 of 4570.
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A man who has nothing to do with his own time has no conscience in his intrusion on that of others.
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A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart, and his next to escape the censures of the world.
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A man's own good breeding is the best security against other people's ill manners.
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A man's possessions are just as large as his own soul. If this title-deeds cover more, the surplus acres own him, not he the acres.
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A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own.
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A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations.
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A mistake made by many people with great convictions is that they will let nothing stand in the way of their views, not even kindness.
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A musician cannot move others unless he too is moved. He must of necessity feel all of the affects that he hopes to arouse in his audience, for the revealing of his own humour will stimulate a like humour in the listener.
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A number of bloggers in economics and the financial sector have risen to prominence through the sheer strength of their work. Note it was not their family connections nor ties to Ivy League schools or elite banks, but rather the strength of their research, analysis and writing.
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A people inspired by democracy, human rights and economic opportunity will turn their back decisively against extremism.
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A people who have suffered so much for so long at hands of a racist society must draw the line somewhere.... the black communities of America must rise up as one man to halt the progression of a trend that leads inevitably to their total destruction.
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A perfectly healthy sentence, it is true, is extremely rare. For the most part we miss the hue and fragrance of the thought; as if we could be satisfied with the dews of the morning or evening without their colors, or the heavens without their azure.
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A person in danger should not try to escape at one stroke. He should first calmly hold his own, then be satisfied with small gains, which will come by creative adaptations.
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A person is never happy till their vague strivings has itself marked out its proper limitations.
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A person that says, 'Losing is not difficult,' I don't even want to be around that person. And obviously, that person has never won anything relevant in their life.
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A person who is wise does nothing against their will, nothing with sighing or under coercion.
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A person will be just about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
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A person's health isn't generally a reflection of genes, but how their environment is influencing them. Genes are the direct cause of less than 1pc of diseases: 99pc is how we respond to the world.
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A place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively, wrenches it from itself, shapes it, renders it, loves it so radically that he remakes it in his own image.
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A plumber is an adventurer who traces leaky pipes to their source.
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