Top 1200 Vice Versa Quotes & Sayings - Page 20
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Last updated on December 23, 2024.
Every man with his own peculiar vice. His will hardly rock heaven or hell.
When I was a young man, I used to dream maybe someday I could be an alderman. Instead of that I became an attorney general, a senator, a vice president, a Democratic nominee.
In midlife, I feel that my tendency to acquire books is rather like someone smoking two packs a day: it's a terrible vice that I wish I could shuck.
Middle names are kind of like vice presidents: It's a fine distinction and certainly an honor, but you're never not aware that someone else got the real job.
The greedy man is he who habitually eats too much, knowing that he is injuring his bodily health thereby, and this is a vice to which not the gourmet but the gourmand is a slave.
People resent articulacy, as if articulacy were a form of vice.
My sobriety isn't up for discussion, but as for vices, I seem to hack away at them with my invisible machete from dawn till dusk. The vice of 'more' is an ongoing theme.
Love is a virtue; it grows stronger and purer and less selfish by applying it to what it loathes; but theft is a vice involving the slave-idea that one's neighbor is superior to oneself.
Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity.
You must come to terms with your wholeself. the wholeness which exceeds all our virtue and all our vice.
[I]f vice and corruption prevail, liberty cannot subsist; but if virtue have the advantage, arbitrary power cannot be established.
How rude would I be, walking around and saying: 'Hello. I'm Eleanor Mondale. My father was vice president of the United States. Treat me differently.
Pride is a vice, which pride itself inclines every man to find in others, and to overlook in himself
The life of a good man is at the same time the most eloquent lesson of virtue and the most severe reproof of vice.
A liking for truth at any cost is a passion that spares nothing and that nothing resists. It's a vice, at times a comfort, or a selfishness.
It is with complete allegiance to the cause of racial and social justice and the NAACP that I step aside from the Presidency and pass the baton to my Vice President, Naima Quarles-Burnley.
My peoples told me they thought I should go talk to a therapist, and I went and talked to a therapist, and we let Vice record it.
My secret vice is Sudoku puzzles. Can't stop playing them. My parents are accountants. I blame them entirely.
My only vice is 'Keeping up With The Kardashians.' I can't really explain what it is that fascinates me so much, but it just sucks me in.
There is only one vice, which may be found in life with as strong features, and as high a colouring as needs be employed by any satyrist or comic poet; and that is AVARICE.
I like Marco Rubio. But I don't know about as a vice-presidential candidate. He's a nice guy, and that role requires kicking the crap out of your opponents.
I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
Somehow strangely the vice of men gets well represented and protected but their virtue has none to plead its cause - nor any charter of immunities and rights.
If you are the wife of a governor or the wife of a vice president, I think you can be prepared for it.
Oh, 'tis not my qualities they object to! 'Tis my lack of vice.
I do believe that during the Bush-Cheney administration, that Vice President Cheney set a tone and an attitude for the CIA.
The American vice would be sometimes speaking too loudly. You can always hear American people on the trains!
'Vogue' and 'Vice' may appear to some to see the world through different lenses. But in my view, both are fearless and breathtaking, with unquenchable curiosity and vigor.
I mean gifts and trips and clothing and all sorts of things, and now he [Tim Kaine] is running for vice president. I don't get what's going on here. He was not a good choice for her.
There are those who would misteach us that to stick in a rut is consistency - and a virtue, and that to climb out of the rut is inconsistency - and a vice.
I've started films like Miami Vice where I'm in really good shape and I look back on that film and see the moustache is bigger as I've got a larger face.
The pathological degree to which former Vice President Dick Cheney operated in secrecy led to government abuses that we'll probably spend years learning about.
There are two sorts of content; one is connected with exertion, the other with habits of indolence. The first is a virtue; the other, a vice.
As a stick, when once it is dry and stiff you may break it, but you can never bend it into a straighter posture; so doth the man become incorrigible who is settled and stiffened into vice.
Vice has a bold voice and a distinctive model in the marketplace. This channel represents a strategic fit and a new direction for the future of our portfolio of media assets.
Vice foments war; it is virtue which actually fights. If there were no virtue, we would live in peace forever.
People think because 'Vice' is irreverent and because we're crazy, we're stunt journalists. You know what? I don't actually care.
Religion is a means of exploitation employed by the strong against the weak; religion is a cloak of ambition, injustice and vice.
I think I really would have quit if I hadn't gotten 'Inherent Vice'. Or maybe I would have just shriveled up and died.
If vice and corruption prevail, liberty cannot subsist; but if virtue have the advantage, arbitrary power cannot be established.
I think it is extremely interesting to think that, in some cases, vice might be, finally, more redemptive than virtue.
Slander is a vice that strikes a double blow; wounding both him that commits, and him against whom it is committed.
Vice incapacitates a man from all public duty; it withers the powers of his under- standing, and makes his mind paralytic.
Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.
Vice came in always at the door of necessity, not at the door of inclination.
Golf - a young man's vice and an old man's penance.
Shane Smith has led Vice from a fledgling magazine into a global media brand, and all of us at A+E are excited to work with him and his passionate and innovative team.
We, Norton I, do hereby decree that the offices of President, Vice President, and Speaker of the House of Representatives are, from and after this date, abolished.
Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.
In my role as executive vice president of development and acquisitions for the Trump Organization and founder and CEO of my own lifestyle brand, I've had a lot of practice negotiating.
The man with the best job in the country is the vice-president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, 'How is the president?'
Widowhood imposed by religion or custom is an unbearable yoke and defiles the home by secret vice and degrades religion.
How rude would I be, walking around and saying: 'Hello. I'm Eleanor Mondale. My father was vice president of the United States. Treat me differently.'
To make judgements about great and lofty things, a soul of the same stature is needed; otherwise we ascribe to them that vice which is our own.
Mom was the greatest influence of my childhood. She wanted to save me from the vice, lust, and drinking that was all about me.
Satire, though it may exaggerate the vice it lashes, is not justified in creating it in order that it may be lashed.
Once there were two brothers: one ran away to sea, the other was elected Vice-President-and nothing was ever heard from either of them again.
Dali is like a man who hesitates between talent and genius, or, as one might once have said, between vice and virtue.
Cigarettes are pretty much my worst vice, and I even stopped smoking for 20 years. I spend most of my free time with my family and working on art.
Debt is the secret foe of thrift, as vice and idleness are its open foes. The debt habit is the twin brother of poverty.
