Famous Quotes & Sayings

Will Durant

It is one of the most culpable oversights of nature that virtue and beauty so often come in separate packages.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Persecution is a very easy form of virtue.

Ward Churchill

Guess what? By virtue of being American, you are not innocent.

William Faulkner

Idleness breeds our better virtues.

Ronald Reagan

Balancing your budget is like protecting your virtue. You have to learn when to say no.

Witold Gombrowicz

Wherever I see some mystique, be it virtue or family, faith or fatherland, there I must commit some indecent act.

William Graham Sumner

There is no device whatever to be invented for securing happiness without industry, economy, and virtue.

William Godwin

The virtue of a human being is the application of his capacity to the general good.

Washington Irving

Villainy wears many masks; none so dangerous as the mask of virtue.

Ian Johnson

Just think of the catastrophic impact it's had in a country that's pretty well organized, pretty rich. Transfer that to a country that isn't and may not have the same level of capacity to deal with these sorts of things,

Red Cavaney

He can very quickly get to the essence of a conversation. People talk about him as a very skilled negotiator . . . (with) tremendous project management skills, capacity to envision very, very complex undertakings.

Alfredo Rangel

He confronts problems very directly and in direct, colloquial language. He has a great capacity for communication with the ordinary citizen.

George P. Shultz

Strong growth means increased use of energy at a pace that can strain the capacity to supply what is needed at a reasonable price.

L. Lionel Kendrick

Heavenly Father has given us a priceless gift in our capacity to communicate with each other. Our communications are at the core of our relationships with others. If we are to return home safely to Heavenly Father, we must develop righteous relationships with His children here in mortality.

Chris Baldwin

What we have is a functioning standby, ... Having 50 percent of the server capacity in Albany means apps would run in slightly degraded mode, but they would be fully available.

Margaret Mead

Having two bathrooms ruined the capacity to cooperate

Michael Englund

Going into the hurricane we had a shortage of refining capacity anyway. This just throws a hand grenade into the already delicate balance.

Kate Miller

God makes sense. It is naive to think that something so complex as the human being, with its capacity for compassion, knowledge, guilt, and love, could have been spontaneously created by some cosmic hiccup.

Jeremy Jacobs

Jacques had done street theater in Paris. He'd always been interested in large architectural structures and how humans interact with them.

Michio Kaku

Humans are natural-born scientists. When we're born, we want to know why the stars shine. We want to know why the sun rises.

Alejandro Thiermann

There is much talk about humans but not about birds.

Caroline Paul

I think as humans we do want to control our relationships, and you can't. It's probably better that you can't. That wouldn't be a real relationship, and we'd never learn and grow.

Mary Roach

I think by and large, humans prefer to think of themselves as minds from the neck up. We don't really like to think of ourselves as another animal, another digesting, excreting, mating, snoring, sleeping kind of sack of guts. I don't think we like that. I think we'd rather not be reminded of it.

Erich Roeckner

Humans have had a large one-of-a-kind influence on the climate.

Christiane Nusslein-Volhard

Humans are something very different from animals, and the numbers required to get cloning to work in animals are completely prohibitory with humans.

Paul Martin

Humans are really expensive, and they're really slow.

Henry Rollins

Humans are pretty crafty but will fold quickly in severe cold.