Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edmund Burke

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

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.

William Blake

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

Rudolfo Anaya

It is because good is always stronger than evil. Always remember that, Antonio. The smallest bit of good can stand against all the powers of evil in the world and it will emerge triumphant.

W. H. Auden

Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.

Vasily Grossman

There are people whose souls have just withered, people who are willing to go along with anything evil - anything so as not to be suspected of disagreeing with whoever is in power.

Ursula K. Le Guin

But you must not change one thing, one pebble, one grain of sand, until you know what good and evil will follow on that act. The world is in balance, in Equilibrium. A wizard's power of Changing and Summoning can shake the balance of the world. It is dangerous, that power...It must follow knowledge, and serve need.

Roberto Rossellini

I am not a pessimist; to perceive evil where it exists is, in my opinion, a form of optimism

Kevin Rudd

There are many who criticise the United Nations. And those of us who know this institution well know that it is not immune from criticism. But those who argue against the United Nations advance no credible argument as to what should replace it. Whatever its imperfections, the United Nations represents a necessary democracy of states.

Tara Brach

Imperfection is not our personal problem - it is a natural part of existing.

Duke of Wellington

It is not the business of generals to shoot one another.

Sri Chinmoy

Cry within. Meditate within. Dive within. Your inner achievements will far outweigh your outer imperfections.

Suzanne Collins

The damage, the fatigue, the imperfections. That's how they recognize me; Why I belong to them.

Lucretius

Even if I knew nothing of the atoms, I would venture to assert on the evidence of the celestial phenomena themselves, supported by many other arguments, that the universe was certainly not created for us by divine power: it is so full of imperfections.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Existence is an imperfection.

Ieyasu Tokugawa

Persuade thyself that imperfection and inconvenience are the natural lot of mortals, and there will be no room for discontent, neither for despair.

Ignatius of Loyola

We should not have a petty regard for God's gifts, though we may and should despise our own imperfections.

Robert Toth

Truth in my love for the subject will produce superior results.

Zig Ziglar

Concentrated thoughts produce desired results.

Pat Barker

The result was I went nowhere.

Molly Ivins

The Founders were right all along, but the results are a lot funnier than they intended.

Pope Benedict XVI

Each of us is the result of a thought of God. Each of us is willed. Each of us is loved. Each of us is necessary.

Ben Hatfield

We are very discouraged by the results of this test.

Peter Drucker

Leadership is all about getting results.

Peter Drucker

Results is all that separates one company from another.

N. T. Wright

The gospel is not itself about you are this sort of a person and this can happen to you. That's the result of the gospel rather than the gospel itself.