Related Quotes
All quotes about:
essence generosity selfishness
Posthumous charities are the very essence of selfishness when bequeathed by those who, even alive, would part with nothing. Charles Caleb Colton
essence ideas mind
We must suit the flattery to the mind and taste of the recipient. We do not put essences into hogsheads, nor porter into phials. Delicate minds may be disgusted by compliments that would please a grosser intellect; as some fine ladies who would be shocked at the idea of a dram will not refuse a liqueur. Charles Caleb Colton
essence news world
The old, old gospel is the newest thing in the world; in its very essence it is for ever good news. Charles Spurgeon
essence life material source truth worth
The source of all the material comes from nothingness, illusion is working more on things you can prove. That's the principle, the essence of life, it is actually an illusion, not immaterial. That's worth pursuing. So illusion is not nothing. In a way, that is the truth. Ang Lee
essence civilization tribes
... poetry is one of the essential structures of civilization -- carrying myth, ritual, 'tales of the tribe' and the essence of language ... Diane Wakoski
essence history mind
History is, in its essence, exciting; to present it as dull is, to my mind, stark and unforgivable misrepresentation. Catherine Drinker Bowen
essence simplicity taste
Simplicity, to me, has always been the essence of good taste. Cary Grant
essence prejudice symptoms
Could there be finer symptoms? Is not general incivility the very essence of love? Jane Austen
essence perspective loses
What we've had to do is learn to control success, put it in perspective, and not lose the essence of what we're doing - the music. Janis Joplin
civilization people way
People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization. Agnes Repplier
civilization tea england
English civilization rests largely upon tea and cricket, with mighty spurts of enjoyment on Derby Day, and at Newmarket. Agnes Repplier
civilization numbers individuality
You know, our sense of individuality is just the number one target of civilization. Alan Rudolph
civilization roots leisure
At the root of our civilization, there is the freedom of each person of thought, of belief, of opinion, of work, of leisure. Charles de Gaulle
civilization luxury selfishness
A semi-civilized state of society, equally removed from the extremes of barbarity and of refinement, seems to be that particular meridian under which all the reciprocities and gratuities of hospitality do most readily flourish and abound. For it so happens that the ease, the luxury, and the abundance of the highest state of civilization, are as productive of selfishness, as the difficulties, the privations, and the sterilities of he lowest. Charles Caleb Colton
civilization stuff jingles
Freedom!- is the fatuous jingle of our civilization, but only those deprived of it have the barest inkling re: what the stuff actually is. David Mitchell
civilization creating alternatives
It's a difficult business, creating a new, alternative civilization. David Graeber
civilization climate-change humans
More than any other time in history, the 1990s will be a turning point for human civilization. David Suzuki
civilization age generations
Generations do not age. Every youth of any period, any civilization, has the same possibilities as always. Cesare Pavese
triumph chance
Wisdom triumphs over chance. Juvenal
triumph conquer poet
Poets by Death are conquer'd but the wit Of poets triumphs over it. Abraham Cowley
triumph habit
Generally it is our failures that civilize us. Triumph confirms us in our habits. Clive James
triumph world unnecessary
I'm afraid that reason will triumph and that the world will become a place where anyone who doesn't fit that will become unnecessary David Byrne
triumph defeat what-is-life
What is life without its angles of difficulty and defeat, and its tip of triumph and power? Ameen Rihani
triumph bliss disaster
If I could learn to treat triumph and disaster the same, then I would find bliss. Kathie Lee Gifford
triumph satan virtue
When Satan's not in the mood, virtue triumphs. Hasn't even Satan a right not to be in the mood once in a while? Gunter Grass
triumph hours conqueror
He is twice a conqueror, who can restrain himself in the hour of triumph. Publilius Syrus
triumph ifs
There is no triumph of good, and if there were it would not be a triumph of good. Iris Murdoch