Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rebecca West

The general tendency [is] to be censorious of the vices to which one has not been tempted.

Saint Augustine

The will is truly free, when it is not the slave of vices and sins.

William Graham Sumner

Nine-tenths of our measures for preventing vice are really protective towards it, because they ward off the penalty.

William Hazlitt

The vices are never so well employed as in combating one another.

Laurence Sterne

I have so great a contempt and detestation for meanness, that I could sooner make a friend of one who had committed murder, than of a person who could be capable, in any instance, of the former vice. Under meanness, I comprehend dishonesty; under dishonesty, ingratitude; under ingratitude, irreligion; and under this latter, every species of vice and immorality in human nature.

Niccolo Machiavelli

A prince must be prudent enough to know how to escape the bad reputation of those vices that would lose the state for him, and must protect himself from those that will not lose it for him, if this is possible; but if he cannot, he need not concern himself unduly if he ignores these less serious vices.

Cassandra Clare

Perhaps [James Herondale] loved vice for vice's own sake.

Joseph Joubert

Virtue by calculation is the virtue of vice.

Natalie Clifford Barney

My queerness is not a vice, is not deliberate, and harms no one.

Ken Johnson

It can be a healthy competition, not a harmful one.

Janet Reno

It also has incredible opportunities to put stuff on there that can be damaging, harmful and hurtful, especially to children,

Akbar Rafsanjani

Harm will not only engulf the Islamic Republic of Iran, but the region and everybody.

Kate Jackson

It is potentially a harmful message to very young kids,

Chris Kelly

I think any more than two years would have been unreasonable. There really wasn't much harm done here.

Rob Bell

Salvation is the entire universe being brought back into harmony with its maker.

Pope John

Please heed the words of our Holy Father: There is no place in the priestly ministry for those who harm children,

Robert Forney

I know enough jazz harmony to do something already, but to really play something with other people that would be suave and cool.

Calvin Coolidge

I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm

Juan Enriquez

I think we're going to move from a Homo sapiens into a Homo evolutis:... a hominid that takes direct and deliberate control over the evolution of his species, her species and other species.

Cary Elwes

I'm something of a history buff. It's deliberate that a lot of my films have been period pieces.

John Dingell

This is a gross and deliberate misrepresentation of the fact,

Kate Adie

Not so much deliberate as, I think, instinctive. There is a right time to go looking. Some do it when they are very young, others take a few years. That's why you should never be pressurised by other people. There's a time for everyone. A lot of things probably come together subconsciously, and we say, 'I'm going to do it now.'

Cary Elwes

It's deliberate that a lot of my films have been period pieces.

Donald Evans

As we all know, the needs of the people in the Gulf region are great, so we need to move with all deliberate speed to get the money flowing to the states. We look forward to working with the governors as we implement the specific awards.

Mike Baker

They'd like to be more deliberate on offense and they do a good job with that. If we can do what we do, we'll be all right.

John Findlay

This is a deliberate misleading of the public by Cathay Pacific, ... no sick leave being taken as a result of the industrial action.

Mohammad Saeedi

This information was spread with a deliberate goal.