Famous Quotes & Sayings

Agnes de Mille

Ours is an upbeat, a hurried, hasty beat. It keeps pressing us to go farther, to include everything so that we can savor everything, so that we can know everything, so that we will miss nothing. Partly it's greed, but mainly its curiosity. We just want to experience it. And we do.

Aaron Swartz

Only those blinded by greed would refuse to let a friend make a copy.

Charles Caleb Colton

Avarice has ruined more souls than extravagance.

Swiss Proverb

The poor lack much, but the greedy more

Ben Nicholson

The beast for me is greed. Whether you read Dante, Swift, or any of these guys, it always boils down to the same thing: the corruption of the soul.

Charles Horton Cooley

It is partly to avoid consciousness of greed that we prefer to associate with those who are at least as greedy as we ourselves. Those who consume much less are a reproach.

Arianna Huffington

having too much is never enough.

B. C. Forbes

The be-all and end-all of life should not be to get rich, but to enrich the world.

Bill Gurley

No one's fearful, everyone's greedy, and it will eventually end.

Pramoedya Ananta Toer

I don't follow any kind of 'isms.' If there is one, it will be Pram-ism.

Frank Capra

Most ideologies of the world are not for the individual. They're against the individual. Communism, fascism. Any kind of an ism - almost - they're against the individual.

Gilbert Adair

All isms end in fascism.

George Seaton

There's a lot of bad isms floating around this world, but one of the worst is commercialism.

Huston Smith

All -isms end up in schisms.

Jim Shaw

I feel like I have to avoid certain thrift store-isms, having been known for the thrift store paintings. It's like I have to not paint that way.

M. F. K. Fisher

Painting, it is true, was undergoing a series of -isms reminiscent of the whims of a pregnant woman.

Tibor Kalman

I use contrary-ism in every part of my life.

Thomas Keating

One of the great purposes of religion itself is being hindered by an exclusive-ism that doesn't take into account the common elements and values that we actually share.

C. S. Lewis

Kindness consents very readily to the removal of its object – we have all met people whose kindness to animals is constantly leading them to kill animals lest they should suffer. Kindness, merely as such, cares not whether its object becomes good or bad, provided only that it escapes suffering.

Jean Kelly

We have no idea yet how long it's going to take to get rid of it. We're working on all kinds of different ways to get rid of debris, but we won't know if any of them are valid until we see what we've got to get rid of.

Agnes Repplier

When the milk of human kindness turns sour, it is a singularly unpalatable draught.

Agnes Repplier

to be civilized is to be incapable of giving unnecessary offense, it is to have some quality of consideration for all who cross our path.

Aasif Mandvi

Paki- bashing was kind of this term that was used in general to beat up anyone that was from the Indian subcontinent.

Aaron Sorkin

Don't ever forget that you're a citizen of this world, and there are things you can do to lift the human spirit, things that are easy, things that are free, things that you can do every day. Civility, respect, kindness, character.

Charlotte Bronte

as much good-will may be conveyed in one hearty word as in many.

Charlotte Bronte

If there are words and wrongs like knives, whose deep inflicted lacerations never heal - cutting injuries and insults of serrated and poison-dripping edge - so, too, there are consolations of tone too fine for the ear not fondly and for ever to retain their echo: caressing kindnesses - loved, lingered over through a whole life, recalled with unfaded tenderness, and answering the call with undimmed shine, out of that raven cloud foreshadowing Death himself.

Charlotte Bronte

Thank you, Mr. Rochester, for your great kindness. I am strangely glad to get back again to you: and wherever you are is my home—my only home.