Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dorothy L. Sayers

There is only one kind of wisdom that has any social value, and that is the knowledge of one's own limitations.

David Palmer

My vision is to make touch positive social value in our culture.

David Letterman

I have talents aplenty. Unfortunately, precious few of them have any redeeming social value.

Louis D. Brandeis

Nearly all legislation involves a weighing of public needs as against private desires; and likewise a weighing of relative social values.

Ellen Goodman

I regard this novel as a work without redeeming social value, unless it can be recycled as a cardboard box.

Emily Post

Custom is a mutable thing; yet we readily recognize the permanence of certain social values. Graciousness and courtesy are never old-fashioned.

Matt Damon

As actors, we react to the material that's out there, and I probably just react more strongly to things that I feel will have some social value.

Gloria Steinem

Work is valued by the social value of the worker.

Kay Redfield Jamison

Confidentiality is an ancient and well-warranted social value.

Charles Dickens

'There may be some, perhaps - I don't know that there are - who abuse his kindness,' said Mr. Wickfield. 'Never be one of those, Trotwood, in anything. He is the least suspicious of mankind; and whether that's a merit, or whether it's a blemish, it deserves consideration in all dealings with the Doctor, great or small.

Charles Sturt

Now it is evident that a little insight into the customs of every people is necessary to insure a kindly communication; this, joined with patience and kindness, will seldom fail with the natives of the interior.

Charles Spurgeon

A good character is the best tombstone.

Charles Spurgeon

That crafty kindness which inveigles me to sacrifice principle is the serpent in the grass - deadly to the incautious wayfarer.

Charles Spurgeon

Soul-serving requires a heart that beats hard against the ribs. It requires a soul full of the milk of human kindness. This is the sine qua non of success.

Charles Spurgeon

For my part, I love to stand foot to foot with an honest foeman. To open warfare, bold and true hearts raise no objection but the ground of quarrel; it is covert enmity which we have most cause to fear, and best reason to loathe. That crafty kindness which inveigles me to sacrifice principle is the serpent in the grass - deadly to the incautious wayfarer.

Alan Bennett

Authors, she soon decided, were probably best met within the pages of their novels, and were as much creatures of the reader's imagination as the characters in their books. Nor did they seem to think one had done them a kindness by reading their writings. Rather they had done one the kindness by writing them.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

What does this word holiness really mean? Is it a negative kind of piety from which so many people have shied away? No, of course not! Holiness in the Bible means moral wholeness-- a positive quality which actually includes kindness, mercy, purity, moral blamelessness and godliness. It is always to be thought of in a positive, white intensity of degree.

Chloe Sevigny

I'm kind of intimidated by the big screen - I often keep my performances much smaller and much more natural and subtle.

Nayvadius Cash

In Atlanta, there's no limitation to where you can take your music. You can be as creative as you want to be.

Charles Francis Richter

it is good to have measured myself, to recognize my limitations.

Harvey Pekar

There's no limitation on comics, nothing. From a logical standpoint, how can there be a limitation on comics? You can use any word in the dictionary. You can put them in any order you want to. You can use a vast variety of illustrating styles. People could do all sorts of things.

Bruce Lee

Understand your limitations and capitalize on them.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

To be aware of limitations is already to be beyond them.

Allan Kush

They want to do the right thing but they also realize there's a limitation on how much of that right thing they can realistically accomplish.

Marlee Matlin

I have always resisted putting limitations on myself, both professionally and personally.

Megyn Kelly

These women [abused by Donald Trump] certainly do have seen the statute of limitations expire. But if he attacks these women, they can allege defamation of their own .

Jacque Fresco

The only limitations are those which we impose upon ourselves.