A Quote by Catherine Helen Spence

There is nothing so costly to the state as a ruined life

Catherine Helen Spence

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Catherine Helen Spence
Australian - Author
October 31, 1825 - April 3, 1910

People want me to say that I'm sick of playing Leia and that it ruined my life. If my life was that easy to ruin, it deserved to be ruined.

Carrie Fisher

It's not like it ruined my life, I was going to say, but then I didn't. Because it occurred to me that maybe it had ruined my life, in a kind of quiet way--a little lie, probably not so vital, insidiously separating me from everyone I loved.

Dan Chaon

I wasn't a happy kid. I felt like my mum ruined our chance of a better life, because when she remarried, we went to live in Bahrain, on a compound with a swimming pool, and she ruined it all.

James Arthur

Ignorance is more costly to any State than education.

Booker T. Washington

The story is framed around [avid Petraeus] resignation. So many headlines that followed talked about his ruined career. They completely ignore the fact that my career was ruined, other peoples' careers were ruined. They focus on him as the victim.

Paula Broadwell

The most costly disease is boredom costly for both individual and society.

Norman Cousins

Yet, here we are, long and difficult years into that conflict," ... "we still have not created the state we promised them. On the contrary, our costly and valiant efforts have produced an outcome our government did not predict or intend-a failed state spinning out of control into anarchy and civil war.

Anthony Zinni

Nothing really succeeds which is not based on reality; sham, in a large sense, is never successful. In the life of the individual, as in the more comprehensive life of the State, pretension is nothing and power is everything.

Edwin Percy Whipple

Sometimes truth is costly but not nearly as costly as deception.

Beth Moore

There is nothing so costly as ignorance.

Horace Mann

There is nothing so costly as bargains.

Margaret Oliphant

Executing a murderer is the only way to adequately express our horror at the taking of an innocent life. Nothing else suffices. To equate the lives of killers with those of victims is the worst kind of moral equivalency. If capital punishment is state murder, then imprisonment is state kidnapping and restitution is state theft.

Don Feder

Nothing is so costly as the pursuit of a cure for imaginary ills.

Francois Fenelon

The body should be bedecked naturally and without affectation, with simplicity, with neglect rather than nicety, not with costly and dazzling apparel, but with ordinary clothes, so that nothing be lacking to honesty and necessity, yet nothing be added to increase its beauty.

Ambrose

All within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state.

Benito Mussolini

Law Number XXIV: The only thing more costly than stretching the schedule of an established project is accelerating it, which is itself the most costly action known to man.

Norman Ralph Augustine

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