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asking may usual
In cases of doubtful morality, it is usual to say is there any harm in doing this? This question may sometimes be best answered by asking ourselves another; is there any harm in letting it alone? Charles Caleb Colton
asking good-enough enough
I found I wasn't asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something. Alan Alda
ask china friendly stay
We want to stay friendly with China. We would like to ask China to be a little more transparent. Yoshinori Ono
asking-questions people understanding
If you don't understand, ask questions. If you're uncomfortable about asking questions, say you are uncomfortable about asking questions and then ask anyway. It's easy to tell when a question is coming from a good place. Then listen some more. Sometimes people just want to feel heard. Here's to possibilities of friendship and connection and understanding. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
asking want grumbling
What the Lord wants is that you shall go about the business to which He sets you, not asking for an easy post, nor grumbling at a hard one. Catherine Booth
asking-why television want
Nowadays, to be frank, every week is a good week for freakshow television. we might start asking, Why are there so many freaks? And why do they all want to be on television? Caitlin Moran
ask god invent minutes ourselves side ten
We can ask ourselves why we invent God, and then, ten minutes later, we invent Satan - why? Because we need him; there's something fascinating about the other side of the coin. Mads Mikkelsen
asked reason
The only reason why I know is because I get asked all the time. Darin Schreck
ask check false gives identify information people phone provide recommend respond themselves time written
The other thing is to ask the person on the phone to identify themselves and who they are working for, ... At any time they should be able to provide something in writing. We recommend that people dont respond over the phone but have information mailed to them. That gives them time to check it out and, if it is a scam, (the false organization) wont have written material. Richard Head
class two people
Mr Jarndyce, and prevented his going any farther, when he had remarked that there were two classes of charitable people: one, the people who did a little and made a great deal of noise; the other, the people who did a great deal and made no noise at all. Charles Dickens
class words-of-wisdom success-of-others
The worst class of sum worked in the every-day world is cyphered by the diseased arithmeticians who are always in the rule of Subtraction as to the merits and successes of others, and never in Addition as to their own. Charles Dickens
class safety age
Though we are perpetually bragging of it [the middle class] as our safety, it is nothing but a poor fringe on the mantle of the upper class. Charles Dickens
class citizens degradation
The American elite is almost beyond redemption. . . . Moral relativism has set in so deeply that the gilded classes have become incapable of discerning right from wrong. Everything can be explained away, especially by journalists. Life is one great moral mush--sophistry washed down with Chardonnay. The ordinary citizens, thank goodness, still adhere to absolutes.... It is they who have saved the republic from creeping degradation while their 'betters' were derelict. Charles Dickens
class homicide one-thing
When one thing takes another away, what do we call that?” she asked my class. “Homicide!” I called out Chris Colfer
class two people
There are two distinctive classes of people today, those who have personal computers, and those who have several thousand extra dollars apiece. Dave Barry
class people behaviour
Whatever people may say, the fastidious formal manner of the upper classes is preferable to the slovenly easygoing behaviour of the common middle class. In moments of crisis, the former know how to act, the latter become uncouth brutes. Cesare Pavese
class black why-not
Why not exploit, enslave, or exterminate a class that everybody is taught to regard as inferior? Carter G. Woodson
class white benefits
I regard affirmative action as pernicious-a system that had wonderful ideals when it started but was almost immediately abused for the benefit of white middle-class women. Camille Paglia
educational keys doors
A very little key will open a very heavy door. Charles Dickens
education teaching brain
Pedantry crams our heads with learned lumber and takes out our brains to make room for it. Charles Caleb Colton
education book men
He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how they are. Charles Caleb Colton
education mind armor
The acquirements of science maybe termed the armor of the mind. Charles Caleb Colton
education teaching knowledge
Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer. Charles Caleb Colton
education prayer men
An unschooled man who knows how to meditate upon the Lord has learned far more than the man with the highest education who does not know how to meditate. Charles Stanley
educational clothes giving
Our educational system in its entirety does nothing to give us any kind of material competence. In other words, we don't learn how to cook, how to make clothes, how to build houses, how to make love, or to do any of the absolutely fundamental things of life. Alan Watts
education learning buddhism
A scholar tries to learn something everyday; a student of Buddhism tries to unlearn something daily. Alan Watts
education country government
The United States government has the obligation to educate all young people in this country. Al Sharpton
families full government help house injured line loved offering prayer praying thoughts white
We are praying for their full and speedy recovery. Our thoughts are with their families and their loved ones. The White House is offering to help in any way as the government does when any American is injured in the line of work. Trent Duffy
families normalcy pull together
We're going to pull together so that these families can find as much normalcy as we can. We're going to get through this together as one American family. Rick Perry
families groups partner
When we deploy soldiers, we deploy the family. And we need to partner with all these groups to give these families what they need. Bob Boone
families houses meet
What about the residential areas? What about my home? What about other families who houses that are still underwater? What are you doing to meet immediately meet our needs, Shawn Johnson
families love
What's realistic to me is that families love each other and stand by each other. What's unrealistic is that they would ever say that. Mitchell Hurwitz
families people transcends work
The pride people take in their work transcends to their homes, their education, families and communities. Leonard Boswell
families good learned lives positive rather source stuff taken
We know we're grown-up guys, and we have families and stuff, but we've taken that as a positive source of art, rather than as a detriment. You know, how we feel about the stuff that we've learned over the lives that we've had, and how we feel about our families. That's where we're writing from, and it's a good thing. David Crosby
families gets
The place gets families from all around down. Toby Hall
families mine
There are only two families in the world, as a grandmother of mine used to say: the haves and the have-nots. Cervantes Saavedra
higher fewer
The higher you go, the fewer women there are. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
higher
The higher up I went, the less happy I was. Dave Chappelle
higher rising students
We have to get students rising to that higher standard. John Winn
higher naturally raise software stocks trade
We're going to see more software acquisitions at higher valuations. Stocks naturally will trade higher when you raise the bar. Patrick Mason
higher law past quality submit
We are getting more submissions so, on the law of averages, we are going to end up with higher quality bands. Those who didn't submit in the past now know this isn't some rinky-dink festival. Bill Donabedian
higher prices
Ultimately, it will be higher prices for the consumer. Charles Holliday
higher life people
In centenarians and supercentenarians - people over 110 - you see a higher level of fecundity much later in life. S. Jay Olshansky
higher
Nobody is going to occupy a place higher than I. Alexis de Tocqueville
higher percentage trying
We're just trying to get better down there, ... We just need to get more (touchdowns). We're not going to get a touchdown every time, but we need to get a higher percentage of them. Mark Richt
increase gods-will ifs
If [something] is of God, your dependence upon God will increase. Aiden Wilson Tozer
increase oil persistent prices worrying
The persistent increase in oil prices is worrying me again. Jeremy Siegel
increased lower medication people period risk start starting taking
The period right after people start taking antidepressant medication is not a period of increased risk. In fact, risk after starting medication is lower than before. Greg Simon
increases jobs monetary policy unless until
Until and unless there are significant increases in jobs over a period, tighter monetary policy is out of the question. Sung Sohn
increase interest seen terms tremendous
We have seen a tremendous increase in terms of the interest we are getting here. Krish Krishnan
increase military nor
We have no intention, nor the ability, to increase our military armaments substantially. Jiang Enzhu
increase interest whether
Whether this will increase interest has yet to be seen. Todd Radford
increases markets seeing seem
What we're seeing as we look into the futures markets presently are increases that seem to be never ending, Martin Cohen
increase offering program
What we're offering is a three?year program to increase the funding. Rep. Heaton
next generations products
The next generation product almost never comes from the previous generation. Al Ries
next causes steps
I love to just go to the movies, watch movies, listen to the scores and all that 'cause that's, like, the next step for me. Akon
next
We want to see who we're going to keep around next season. Mike Butters
next want knows
I don't want to go bald, I don't know what's coming up next. Chris Cooper
next performances improving
Everything I do is geared towards improving my next performance. Carolina Kluft
next performance sequels stock store
The performance of the stock is going to come down to the movies. It's that simple. And there are no sequels in store for next year. David Miller
next percent spending total
We are making a dent, but we are not going to be at 10 percent of total spending by next year. Greg Stuart
next night parking spent until
We spent the night at a parking lot until the next morning. David Foster
next faces realization
In the face of impermanence, if your next thought is good, this is what we call the realization body. Bill Porter
people may medical
It is astonishing how much more anxious people are to lengthen life than to improve it; and as misers often lose large sums of money in attempting to make more, so do hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander. Charles Caleb Colton
people solitude multitudes
A multitude of people and yet solitude. Charles Dickens
people governing whole
My faith in the people governing is, on the whole, infinitesimal; my faith in the people governed is, on the whole, illimitable. Charles Dickens
people words-of-wisdom selfishness
Others had been a little wild, which was not to be wondered at, and not very blamable; but, he had made a lamentation and uproar which it was dangerous for the people to hear, as there is always contagion in weakness and selfishness. Charles Dickens
people words-of-wisdom want
Mrs. Boffin and me, ma'am, are plain people, and we don't want to pretend to anything, nor yet to go round and round at anything because there's always a straight way to everything. Charles Dickens
people next cleanliness
Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by their religion. Charles Dickens
people scary alive
I have heard it said that as we keep our birthdays when we are alive, so the ghosts of dead people, who are not easy in their graves, keep the day they died upon. Charles Dickens
people enemy
Some people are nobody's enemies but their own Charles Dickens
people romance wonder-woman
Superman/Wonder Woman, people expected, I guess, a lot of romance, or maybe something that wasnt emotionally deep. Who knows? Charles Soule
rather sooner
We're insisting that it be sooner rather than later. Richard Berthelsen
rather
Like Hubie, and sometimes like Jim, I can be rather lengthy. Jim Calhoun
rather rule
made it a rule ... rather than the exception. Rudi Giuliani
rather record
I'm a lazy guy. I can't focus for too long. I'd rather hear a record that has no filler. Thomas Mars
rather work
I don't know about hiding away, but I really only like to present myself when I'm working on something - it's more my work I like to present to the world rather than myself. Kate Bush
rather
I am not into action and adventure on holiday; that doesn't really do it for me. I would much rather go and lie down. Keeley Hawes
rather stated
Mohamed stated he would rather kill only Americans. Abigail Perkins
rather strange
So I think it is rather strange that I got into ballet, something that I hadn't seen. Suzanne Farrell
rather survive taken
She was rather abrasive and difficult, but it must've taken that kind of personality to survive and to do what she did in the 1960s. Michael Messner
segregated sunday
They say Sunday is the most segregated day of the week. Janet Davis
single-mom believe simple
I discovered that when I believed my thoughts, I suffered, but that when I didn’t believe them, I didn’t suffer, and that this is true for every human being. Freedom is as simple as that. I found that suffering is optional. I found a joy within me that has never disappeared, not for a single moment. Byron Katie
single loneliness boys
A man is never completely alone in this world. At the worst, he has the company of a boy, a youth, and by and by a grown man - the one he used to be. Cesare Pavese
single-life speech vain
If there is no free speech, every single life has lived in vain Ai Weiwei
single-mom struggle opportunity
Raising a family is difficult enough. But it's even more difficult for single parents struggling to make ends meet. They don't need more obstacles. They need more opportunities. Bill Richardson
single breakup love-you
That's why I called it Dangerously In Love. It's basically all of the steps in a relationship from when you first meet a guy to realizing you're interested to dancing with him the first night to thinking that you're in love to realizing that you're now a little open to making love to breaking up to having to love yourself after the breakup. All of that. A celebration of love. Beyonce Knowles
single shopping numbers
There is a restless kind of consumer shopping for partners, as if the "right one" can be found by totting up a potential mate's pluses and minuses until the number of pluses matches some mythical standards. Deepak Chopra
single blessing independence
The first of earthly blessings, independence. Edward Gibbon
single wisdom loneliness
Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius. Edward Gibbon
single-life down-and done
I don't really do that whole 'single life' thing. I'm kind of heads down and get things done. Ed Sheeran
states secretary
I loved what I did. I could've been secretary of state for ever. Madeleine Albright
states evident secretary
I loved being Secretary of State, that's probably evident to everyone who watched me. Madeleine Albright
states barometer interest
...interest is the barometer of the state... David Hume
states hyperbole constant
I live in a constant state of hyperbole. Eden Sher
states senators productive
I was very productive as a senator for my state. Carol Moseley Braun
state
We wrestled better than we did in the first. We got after the guys, and they wanted to get to the state final. Clifford Garnto
state
to play in the state in which they're franchised. Paul Tagliabue
state
We're realists. We know we're in a state where the Legislature is anti-choice. Susan Hill
state systems whether
When the state inspectors look at us, they will see that the systems are in place. You have to have a system whether you have one person or 100. Al Mollozzi
years needs answers
Any replacement to the current copyright position (life plus 70 years) needs to have an answer lined up for this, and similar, messy edge cases. Charles Stross
years preparation left
If I knew I had 25 years left to live, I would spend 20 of them in preparation. Charles Spurgeon
years oil alchemist
I'm a bit of an alchemist sorceress. I've collected probably 1500 oils from around the planet over the last ten years. I'm kind of obsessed with the sensuality of it. Alanis Morissette
years white black
...for thousands of years human history has been a magnificently futile conflict, a wonderfully staged panorama of triumphs and tragedies based on the resolute taboo against admitting that black goes with white. Alan Watts
years people car
Although the quality of the vehicles is tremendously improving year after year but the underlying reasons that people are buying cars have really gotten focused. It's for high quality vehicles, reliable, fuel-efficient, and safe of course. Alan Mulally
years mad people
I've known a lot of people go mad over the years, and it is more distressing than people dying. People dying is quite natural, people going mad is the complete antithesis of that. Alan Moore
years rose three
It seems strange that my life should end in such a terrible place, but for three years I had roses, and apologized to no one. Alan Moore
years style looks
It's funny, but certain faces seem to go in and out of style. You look at old photographs and everybody has a certain look to them, almost as if they're related. Look at pictures from ten years later and you can see that there's a new kind of face starting to predominate, and that the old faces are fading away and vanishing, never to be seen again. Alan Moore
years childhood arlington
I was born in Somerville, but I don't remember very much about it because we moved from there to Arlington when I was five years old, and it was in Arlington that I spent most of my childhood. Alan Hovhaness