The law condemns and punishes only actions within certain definite and narrow limits; it thereby justifies, in a way, all similar actions that lie outside those limits.
~quote about Justice by Leo Tolstoy, What I Believe
God pours life into death and death into life without a drop being spilled.
~quotes on Death by Author Unknown
Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.
~sayings on Nature by Francis Bacon, Novum Organum, 1620
If you're going through hell, keep going.
~quotations on Grief by Winston Churchill
Women's chains have been forged by men, not by anatomy.
~religious inspirational sayings by Estelle R. Ramey
Life is like riding a bicycle, you don't fall off unless you stop pedalling.
~saying about religious by
You know you're an Arizona native when you run to the window just to watch a dust storm.
~quote about Arizona by Marshall Trimble, quoted in You Know You're an Arizona Native, When... compiled by Don Dedera, 1993
Trees outstrip most people in the extent and depth of their work for the public good
~quotes on Arbor Day by Sara Ebenreck, American Forests
As a rule, what is out of sight disturbs men's minds more seriously than what they see.
~sayings on Worry by Julius Caesar
There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today.
~quotations on Action by Mignon McLaughlin
To sharpen your mind, select a topic and force yourself to keep talking about it for 10 minutes without stopping. That develops concentration, observation, memory, will power and fluency.
~religious inspirational sayings by
If we escape punishment for our vices, why should we complain if we are not rewarded for our virtues?
~saying about religious by John Churton Collins, Aphorisms in the English Review, 1914
Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul; the blue prints of your ultimate accomplishments.
~quote about Goals by Napoleon Hill
Up to a point a man's life is shaped by environment, heredity, and movements and changes in the world about him. Then there comes a time when it lies within his grasp to shape the clay of his life into the sort of thing he wishes to be. Only the weak blame parents, their race, their times, lack of good fortune, or the quirks of fate. Everyone has it within his power to say, This I am today; that I will be tomorrow.
~quotes on Self by Louis L'Amour
If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat?
~sayings on Vegetarianism by Author Unknown
Where do you go to get anorexia?
~quotations on Women's Greetings by Shelley Winters
The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.
~religious inspirational sayings by Mark Twain, attributed
A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.
~saying about religious by Michael Garrett Marino
Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.
~quote about Politics by Gore Vidal
Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
~quotes on Death by Susan Ertz, Anger in the Sky
Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
~sayings on Government by George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman, Maxims: Education, 1905
Real life usually doesn’t begin until we realize how soon it will end.
~quotations on Living by
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
~religious inspirational sayings by Edmund Burke
Sticks in a bundle are unbreakable.
~saying about religious by Kenyan Proverb
My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.
~quote about Freedom by Adlai Stevenson, speech, Detroit, 1952
Blushing is the color of virtue.
~quotes on Virtue by Diogenes
Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence: in other words, it is war minus the shooting... there are quite enough real causes of trouble already, and we need not add to them by encouraging young men to kick each other on the shins amid the roars of infuriated spectators.
~sayings on Sports by George Orwell
Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live.
~quotations on Stress by Margaret Fuller
Don't go out of your weigh to please anyone but yourself.
~religious inspirational sayings by Author Unknown
Falling in love is so hard on the knees.
~saying about religious by Aerosmith
You cannot fully understand your own life without knowing and thinking beyond your life, your own neighborhood, and even your own nation.
~quote about Self-Discovery by Johnnetta Cole
The universe is merely a fleeting idea in God's mind - a pretty uncomfortable thought, particularly if you've just made a down payment on a house
~quotes on Housewarming by Woody Allen
Force the habits you consider best for you. Time will make them natural and easy.
~sayings on Self Discipline by
In my day, we didn't have self-esteem, we had self-respect, and no more of it than we had earned.
~quotations on Generations by Jane Haddam
I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam: I looked into the soul of another boy.
~religious inspirational sayings by Woody Allen
It's a sort of bloom on a woman. If you have it, you don't need to have anything else; and if you don't have it, it doesn't much matter what else you have.
~saying about religious by James Matthew Barrie, What Every Woman Knows, about charm
Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
~quote about Science by Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is not a fragrant world.
~quotes on Curmudgeons by Raymond Chandler
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