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greatness men tragedy
Arthur E. Morgan Lack of something to feel important about is almost the greatest tragedy a man may have.
government effort tragedy
Arthur Frank Burns My efforts to prevent closing of the gold window-working through Connally, Volcker, and Shultz-do not seem to have succeeded. The gold window may have to be closed tomorrow because we now have a government that is incapable, not only of constructive leadership, but of any action at all. What a tragedy for mankind!
romance romeo-and-juliet-love tragedy
William Shakespeare For never was a story of more woe than this of Juliet and her Romeo.
grief men tragedy
Aiden Wilson Tozer A man by his sin may waste himself, which is to waste that which on earth is most like God. This is man's greatest tragedy and God's heaviest grief.
heart space tragedy
Aiden Wilson Tozer The widest thing in the universe is not space; it is the potential capacity of the human heart. Being made in the image of God, it is capable of almost unlimited extension in all directions. And one of the world's greatest tragedies is that we allow our hearts to shrink until there is room in them for little besides ourselves.
believe important tragedy
Aiden Wilson Tozer I do not recall another period when ‘faith’ was as popular as it is today. ‘If only we believe hard enough we'll make it somehow.’ So goes the popular chant. What you believe is not important. Only believe... What is overlooked in all this is that faith is good only when it engages truth; when it is made to rest upon falsehood it can and often does lead to eternal tragedy. For it is not enough that we believe; we must believe the right thing about the right One.
order tragedy important
Aiden Wilson Tozer This is the tragedy and woe of the hour--that we neglect the most important One who could possibly be in our midst--the Holy Spirit of God. Then, in order to make up for His absence, we have to do something to keep up our own spirits.
tragedy saint christianity
Aiden Wilson Tozer Unsaintly saints are the tragedy of Christianity.
art artistic beauty decay durable extremely moral morality nowhere physical rapidly tendency
Susan Sontag Unfortunately, moral beauty in art -- like physical beauty in a person -- is extremely perishable. It is nowhere so durable as artistic or intellectual beauty. Moral beauty has a tendency to decay very rapidly into sententiousness or untimeliness.
looks morality natural
Aiden Wilson Tozer We have learned to live with unholiness and have come to look upon it as the natural and expected thing.
heart morality chaos
Aiden Wilson Tozer The neglected heart will soon be a heart overrun with worldly thoughts; the neglected life will soon become a moral chaos.
lying morality sanity
Chogyam Trungpa Sanity lies somewhere between the inhibitions of conventional morality and the looseness of the extreme impulse
children morality ethics
Charlotte Perkins Gilman Fine blunderers in ethics we are, so generally conveying to children the basic impression that pleasantness must be wrong, and right doing unpleasant!
agents concern criminal doer enjoying expediency expression finds modern morality protection public regular view violation
Max Weber The modern view of criminal justice, broadly, is that public concern with morality or expediency decrees expiation for the violation of a norm; this concern finds expression in the infliction of punishment on the evil doer by agents of the state, the evil doer, however, enjoying the protection of a regular procedure.
children entertainment morality
L. Frank Baum Modern education includes morality; therefore the modern child seeks only entertainment in its wonder-tales and gladly dispenses with all disagreeable incident.
country power morality
Cal Thomas Politicians have limited power. They can't impose morality on themselves. How can they impose it on the country?
morality memories-dreams-reflections
Carl Jung Without freedom there can be no morality.
truth latitude-and-longitude tales
Charles Lamb The teller of a mirthful tale has latitude allowed him. We are content with less than absolute truth.
tales ends universe
Chang-Rae Lee A tale, like the universe, they tell us, expands ceaselessly each time you examine it, until there’s finally no telling exactly where it begins, or ends, or where it places you now.
lasts ancient tales
William Shakespeare This act is an ancient tale new told; And, in the last repeating, troublesome, Being urged at a time unseasonable.
glorify hunt lions shall tales until
George Washington Until lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunters.
writing tales died
Carlos Ruiz Zafon I became a writer, a teller of tales, because otherwise I would have died... or worse.
connections fairy-tale tales
Cass Sunstein We often see a temper of the times connection, and it's just like a fairy tale. It's not true.
stars war tales
Cass Sunstein I got into the genesis of Star Wars, and the tale seemed to me endlessly fascinating.
sharks dollars tales
Barbara Corcoran Shark Tales: How I turned $1,000 into a Billion Dollar Business
fairy-tale invention tales
Brian Selznick Fairy tales only happen in movies." -George Melies from The Invention of Hugo Cabret