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Last updated on December 22, 2024.
Capitalism started out with a noble and high motive, but like most human systems it fell victim to the very thing it was revolting against.
He who cannot look over a battlefield with a dry eye, causes the death of many men uselessly.
I have a fear of tubes and tunnels. Going through any tunnel causes me great anxiety.
People who have addictive problems usually have some subset of emotional difficulties that causes them to abuse substances.
I do not think that this [the universe] can be explained only by natural causes, and are forced to impute to the wisdom and ingenuity of an intelligent.
Remember, one just man causes the Devil greater affliction than a million blind believers.
Whenever the spirit of fanaticism, at once so credulous and so crafty, has insinuated itself into a noble mind, it insensibly corrodes the vital principles of virtue and veracity.
Broccoli, when overboiled, produces a sulfuric stench that causes children to gag the instant they enter the house.
A noble birth and fortune, though they make not a bad man good, yet they are a real advantage to a worthy one and place his virtues in a fairer light.
A true artist is expected to be all that is noble-minded, and this is not altogether a mistake; on the other hand, however, in what a mean way are critics allowed to pounce upon us.
There are some times when I think acting can be a noble profession. And when those rare roles come along, like Down to the Bone, you have the opportunity to be of service.
One of the main causes of our artistic decline lies beyond doubt in the separation of art and science.
I grew up with a real appreciation about just how wonderful and intimate the relationship is between a doctor and a patient was and the sense that this was a noble profession.
The Americans at heart are a pure and noble people; things to them are in black and white. It's either 'rawk' or it's not. We Brits putter around in the grey area.
The noble entitlement bespeaks an élan, a certain type of relationship with your partner. It means formidable technique not displayed lightly. The excitement comes from elegance.
I am pretty heavy into causes. I'm an active Democrat, I boycott grapes, and I work for prison reform.
There are some times when I think acting can be a noble profession. And when those rare roles come along, like 'Down to the Bone,' you have the opportunity to be of service.
The illustrious and noble ought to place before them certain rules and regulations, not less for their hours of leisure and relaxation than for those of business.
How many times go we to comedies, to masques, to places of great and noble resort, nay even to church only to see the company.
Timidity prompted by past failures causes investors to miss the most important bull markets.
I am as free as nature first made man,
Ere the base laws of servitude began,
When wild in woods the noble savage ran.
Music, when thus applied, raises noble hints in the mind of the hearer, and fills it with great conceptions. It strengthens devotion, and advances praise into rapture.
True generosity consists precisely in fighting to destroy the causes which nourish false charity.
Imitation causes us to leave natural ways to enter into artificial ones; it therefore makes slaves.
I stand for all people even if it causes me political heartburn - and I'm going to do that no matter what my future holds.
We were a silent, hidden thought in the folds of oblivion, and we have become a voice that causes the heavens to tremble.
Do you know what you are? You are a manuscript oƒ a divine letter. You are a mirror reflecting a noble face. This universe is not outside of you. Look inside yourself; everything that you want, you are already that.
[It] is the little causes, long continued, which are considered as bringing about the greatest changes of the earth.
These auspicious aspects, which the astrologers subsequently interpreted for me, may have been the causes of my preservation.
The factor in human life provocative of a noble discontent is the gradual emergence of a sense of criticism, founded upon appreciation of beauty, and of intellectual distinction, and of duty.
It causes havoc on set anytime a director wants to go backward rather than forward.
We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances.
I believe we are most likely to succeed when ambition is focused on noble and worthy purposes and outcomes rather than on goals set out of selfishness.
The Bible teaches that there are no lost causes. No permanent pit-dwellers except those who refuse to leave.
And the only people I fear are those who never have doubts... Save us all from arrogant men, and all the causes they're for.
The way to achieve a higher birthrate, which is a noble goal and I am glad conservatives are serious about addressing it, is to radically change the culture.
...Vaulted with such ease into his seat, As if an angel dropp'd down from the clouds, To turn and wind a fiery Pegasus, And witch the world with noble horsemanship.
Gossip is just a tool to distract people who have nothing better to do from feeling jealous of those few of us still remaining with noble hearts.
Happiness, in the ancient, noble sense, means self-fulfillment—and is given to those who use to the fullest whatever talents God … bestowed upon them.
Like those great sphinxes lounging through eternity in noble attitudes upon the desert sand, they gaze incuriously at nothing, calm and wise.
The purifying influence of public confession springs from the fact, that by it the hope in lies is forever swept away, and the soul recovers the noble attitude of simplicity.
It is impossible for men engaged in low and groveling pursuits to have noble and generous sentiments. A man's thought must always follow his employment.
Sensible men show their sense by saying much in few words. If noble actions are the substance of life, good sayings are its ornament and guide.
grateful people are a bore and become obsequious, which causes their benefactors to doubt the wisdom of their choice.
Some people still have causes they will not desert, even though the cause seems lost.
Annoyance is a physical malady that is in no way cured just because the annoying situation that causes it is eliminated.
It doesn't matter if I've been wronged - I still have a responsibility to use my influence in a way that never causes harm.
The great lesson of biography is to show what man can be and do at his best. A noble life put fairly on record acts like an inspiration to others.
I'm not an expert on Islam, but I think there are lots of noble religions whose basic principles could stand considerably more observation in the world of business.
Mystery causes a mental itch, which the brain tries to soothe with the balm of reasonable talk.
Those who are socially inclined will find a new power to help humanity through the lessons of books written by noble and gifted people.
In my deepest troubles, I frequently would wrench myself from the persons around me and retire to some secluded part of our noble forests.
Among other causes of misfortune which your not being armed brings upon you, it makes you despised.
Just because something causes you to have a feeling of aesthetic beauty does not make it a work of art.
I am sure of this, that by going much alone a man will get more of a noble courage in thought and word than from all the wisdom that is in books.
What dire offence from am'rous causes springs, What mighty contests rise from trivial things.
willing me to understand: that people should be sacrificed to causes, that beauty can be built on the backs of the dead.
A maxim is the exact and noble expression of an important and indisputable truth. Good maxims are the germs of all excellence; when firmly fixed on the memory, they nourish the will.
I wish I had the billions of dollars that George Soros has that he has used to fund Democratic causes in the past.
All genuinely noble women prefer truth to falsehood. As the Russians with their Czar, they are unwilling to see their idol degraded; they want to be proud of the domination they accept.
