Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dorothea Lange

I had to get my camera to register things that were more important than how poor they were--their pride, their strength, their spirit.

Robert Burns

Not the bee upon the blossom, In the pride o' sunny noon; Not the little sporting fairy, All beneath the simmer moon; Not the poet, in the moment Fancy lightens in his e'e, Kens the pleasure, feels the rapture, That thy presence gi'es to me.

Robert Browning

The sad rhyme of the men who proudly clung To their first fault, and withered in their pride.

Richard Steele

Pride destroys all symmetry and grace, and affectation is a more terrible enemy to fine faces than the small-pox.

Michael Douglas

I am a Jew. Those are four words of pride. My Jewishness is as deep as my genes.

Randa Abdel-Fattah

To the Muslim woman, the hijab provides a sense of empowerment. It is a personal decision to dress modestly according to the command of a genderless Creator; to assert pride in self, and embrace one's faith openly, with independence and courageous conviction.

Serge Gainsbourg

I am incapable of mediocrity.

Michael Pollan

Of the seven deadly sins, surely it is pride that most commonly afflicts the gardener.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

The only virtue on which I pride myself is my self-doubt; when a writer loses her self-doubt, the time has come to lay aside her pen.

Alberto Manguel

Evil requires no reason.

Albert Schweitzer

Good is that which promotes life, evil is that which destroys life

J. R. R. Tolkien

There are many powers in the world, for good or for evil. Some are greater than I am. Against some I have not yet been measured. But my time is coming.

J. R. R. Tolkien

For so sworn good or evil an oath may not be broken and it shall pursue oathkeeper and oathbreaker to the world's end.

J. R. R. Tolkien

For nothing is evil in the beginning.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

It is written, better to be a fool all your days than for one hour to be evil. You are not a fool. They are the fools. For he who causes his neighbor to feel shame loses Paradise himself.

Isaac Asimov

All evil is good become cancerous.

Iris Chang

Almost all people have this potential for evil, which would be unleashed only under certain dangerous social circumstances.

Immanuel Kant

The only objects of practical reason are therefore those of good and evil. For by the former is meant an object necessarily desired according to a principle of reason; by the latter one necessarily shunned, also according to a principle of reason.

Gloria Naylor

Lord keep her safe since you can't keep her sane.

Robert H. Schuller

Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.

Jessica Savitch

The single life is not one I willingly chose for myself.

William Allingham

Sin we have explain'd away; Unluckily, the sinners stay.

Kelly Slater

I haven't surfed since Japannot even one wave.

Jose Bergamin

The most original sin is not the thinker's but the poet's.

Jorge Luis Borges

I have committed the worst of sins one can commit... I have not been happy.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

Our virtues are made by love, and our sins caused by the lack of it.

Hector Hugh Munro

I always say beauty is only sin deep.