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children knowledge enemy
Religion has treated knowledge sometimes as an enemy, sometimes as a hostage; often as a captive and more often as a child; but knowledge has become of age, and religion must either renounce her acquaintance, or introduce her as a companion and respect her as a friend. Charles Caleb Colton
children gambling parent
Gaming is the child of avarice, but the parent of prodigality.
children heaven wish
Avarice begets more vices than Priam did children and like Priam survives them all. It starves its keeper to surfeit those who wish him dead, and makes him submit to more mortifications to lose heaven than the martyr undergoes to gain it.
children believe streets
The streets looked small, of course. The streets that we have only seen as children always do I believe when we go back to them Charles Dickens
children taken ideas
That, they never could lay their heads upon their pillows; that, they could never tolerate the idea of their wives laying their heads upon their pillows; that, they could never endure the notion of their children laying their heads on their pillows; in short , that there never more could be , for them or theirs , any laying of heads upon pillows at all , unless the prisioner's head was taken off. The Attorney General during the trial of Mr. Darnay
children pride men
Send forth the child and childish man together, and blush for the pride that libels our own old happy state, and gives its title to an ugly and distorted image.
children character eye
He was a very young boy; quite a little child. His hair still hung in curls about his face, and his eyes were very bright; but their light was of Heaven, not earth.
children character pride
"A child!" said Edith, looking at her. "When was I a child? What childhood did you ever leave to me? I was a woman - artful, designing, mercenary, laying snares for men - before I knew myself, or you, or even understood the base and wretched aim of every new display I learnt. You gave birth to a woman. Look upon her. She is in her pride tonight."
children boys two
I never see any difference in boys. I only know two sorts of boys. Mealy boys and beef-faced boys.
selfishness degrees bigs
Selfishness doesn't consist in a love to yourself, but in a big degree of such love. Aristotle
selfishness slippery-slope firsts
Aggression is the first step on the slippery slope to selfishness and chaos. Anne Campbell
selfishness continuity day-to-day
I lived with the only continuity, day to day, of the me-me-me. Albert Camus
selfishness messages want
One set of messages of the society we live in is: Consume. Grow. Do what you want. Amuse yourselves. Susan Sontag
selfishness coward causes
Our own selfishness makes us the most arrant cowards; our own selfishness is the great cause of fear and cowardice. Swami Vivekananda
selfishness desert fool
Faith, I am no such fool; everyone for himself in this desert of selfishness which is called life. Stendhal
selfishness size stinginess
stinginess seemed instinctive to him. Darwinian even. He hadn't gotten to his current size by sharing. Laura Lippman
selfishness next causes
Next to selfishness the principal cause which makes life unsatisfactory is want of mental cultivation. John Stuart Mill
selfishness ends
Happiness begins when selfishness ends. John Wooden
able wonderful wells
Well, to aspiring writers, I would tell them that we live in a wonderful time where you're able to make your work visible, easily. Diablo Cody
able
I am actually able to do other things. I'm not just this writer.
able easier
When you are able to applaud yourself, it is much easier to applaud others. Denis Waitley
able helping help-me
I don't seem to be able to learn from experience or anything useful. History doesn't help me. Precedents don't inform my experience. Bill Nighy
able band ready
I wouldn't go into the studio if I didn't have a band who's ready, willing, and able. Cass McCombs
able destruction results
The result is - document destruction - we're really not going to be able to prove beyond a truth the negatives and some of the positive conclusions that we're going to come to. There will be always unresolved ambiguity here. Alan Kay
able should
You should be able to have good matches against anybody. Charlie Haas
able answers sin
So far from being able to answer for my sins, I cannot even answer for my righteousness! Bernard of Clairvaux
able privilege speak
I love filmmaking, and I love the process. And I would rather do nothing else. It's a privilege to be able to paint such big pictures, so to speak. Bryan Singer