Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edmund Burke

The only thing needed for evil to prosper is for good men to do nothing.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

This is the course of every evil deed, that, propagating still it brings forth evil.

Samuel Johnson

No evil is insupportable but that which is accompanied with consciousness of wrong.

Virgil

Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

Vincent Van Gogh

Let us keep courage and try to be patient and gentle. And let us not mind being eccentric, and make distinction between good and evil.

Wayne Dyer

To sit in judgment of those things which you perceive to be wrong or imperfect is to be one more person who is part of judgment, evil or imperfection.

William Blake

There can be no Good Will. Will is always Evil; it is persecution to others or selfishness.

Wallace Stegner

wherever you find the greatest good, you will find the greatest evil, because evil loves paradise as much as good.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Centres, or centre-pieces of wood, are put by builders under an arch of stone while it is in the process of construction till the keystone is put in. Just such is the use Satan makes of pleasures to construct evil habits upon; the pleasure lasts till the habit is fully formed; but that done the habit may stand eternal. The pleasures are sent for firewood, and the hell begins in this life.

Herb Grace

Kevin Lynch was huge tonight, especially on the post. He gave us a great effort and is the heart and soul of our team.

Gerald Myers

We're proud of the effort Lubbock has made in order to give (the athletes) a new start,

T.I.

To expect for me to be one-way every time you see me is to expect me to be a one-dimensional man, which I've never been. I've always applauded my efforts to be diverse and multi-faceted.

Doc Rivers

I thought some guys gave good effort tonight, but some have their luggage in mind on the plane already. Turnovers and shot selection killed us.

Agnus Berenato

I think we really battled them. We did not lose this game because of a lack of effort and I think that's really important for us.

Byron Scott

I thought our effort was much better. Defensively we're just having way too many lapses. Guys aren't communicating out there and talking to each other. You give up (52) points in the paint, you're not going to win too many games.

Donald Clark

I thought our effort was good in the jamboree,

Jack Bicknell

I think we're smarter than that. I know this: We better have a great effort and handle ourselves. If not, we'll get beat.

Phil Seymore

I think we're playing more as a team. We didn't really do it today because we were outmanned, but I think that's helped us. The team effort is a big part of it.

Richard Dawkins

We have to find our own purposes in life, which are not derived directly from our scientific history.

William S. Burroughs

The whole point is, I feel the machine should be eliminated. Now that it has served its purpose of alerting us to the dangers of machine control.

Richard Flanagan

The enslavement, humiliation, torture, and ultimate destruction of thousands upon thousands of human beings for a project for which there was ultimately no purpose is a horror that's very hard to imagine, far less understand.

Robert Mueller

So there is a foreign intelligence purpose for every one of our FISA warrants.

Warren Buffett

Making money isn't the backbone of our guiding purpose; it is the by-product of our guiding purpose.

Wayne Dyer

Stop looking for your purpose. BE it!

Salman Rushdie

Anyone who has had the experience of going through American security checks knows the purpose of these checks is not to make you safer; it's just to annoy you.

Rudolf Steiner

Our highest endeavour must be to develop individuals who are able out of their own initiative to impart purpose & direction to their lives.

Wayne Dyer

Those whose purpose does not match yours are not wrong; they have their mission, and finding their own purposeful way may involve many detours and acts that seem destructive.