Related Quotes
agreeable authority experience faith french-philosopher means pleasant truths
In this connection, faith and experience teach us many truths by means of the short-cut of authority and by the proofs of very pleasant and agreeable feelings. Nicolas Malebranche
agreeable expect ways work
Husbands, be patient with your wives; and wives, be patient with your husbands. Don't expect perfection. Find agreeable ways to work out the differences that arise. Joseph B. Wirthlin
agreeable consists equally happiness peasant
Sir, that all who are happy, are equally happy, is not true. A peasant and a philosopher may be equally satisfied, but not equally happy. Happiness consists in the multiplicity of agreeable consciousness. Samuel Johnson
agreeable authorized comply favor prevent received refuse thankful written
Sir,- I have duly received your favor of the 18th and am thankful to you for having written it, because it is more agreeable to prevent than to refuse what I do not think myself authorized to comply with Thomas Jefferson
agreeable baby parents problems scheduling
Most parents are agreeable but some aren't because they don't have transportation or they have problems with scheduling baby sitters. Alan Hawkins
agreeable dreams english-author
My dreams were at once more fantastic and agreeable than my writings. Mary Shelley
agreeable beneficial companies continue delighted foundation improve partner throughout ways
We are delighted that Kmart will continue to be a foundation partner for MSO throughout the decade, and that our two companies have found mutually agreeable ways to improve upon our beneficial relationship.
agreeable both discussing forth interest might ongoing represent trying
We are having ongoing conversations right now, going back and forth discussing what might be agreeable for both parties. There is a lot of interest there, and we are just going about trying to find out how we can get Chauncey to represent our country.
agreeable believe crops faculty phenomenon valuable
The concept of serendipity often crops up in research. Serendipity is the faculty or phenomenon of finding valuable or agreeable things that were not being sought. I believe that all researchers can be serendipitous. Akira Suzuki
dealing might serving stop
We want the pedophiles to give it a thought, that they might be dealing with the police, ... And if we can stop them ... then we are serving our purpose.
dealing hierarchy might military properly
We want to set this up properly because we are dealing with a military hierarchy and I might set it up wrongly.
dealing pains
'The Night Watch' is a beautiful story about the pains of dealing with what you are. Harry Treadaway
dealing dealt dollars
We have never dealt with the dollars we are dealing with today, Charles Sumner
dealing drive helpful issues office people trying
We've still had some issues with people trying to drive around the barricades. VDOT and the sheriff's office have been helpful in dealing with those issues.
dealing ironic success
What we're really dealing with is the success of our city. It's ironic if you think about it.
dealing field happens help lives people ready separate stuff trying
What happens on the field is its own world. The stuff those people are dealing with is their lives in the real world. They're separate worlds. We're trying to do everything we can to help those people who have been displaced. Some of them are right here in Charlotte. But when it comes to football, we've got to be ready to play.
dealing point
We are getting over sicknesses and dealing with injuries. So at this point we know what we need to do.
dealing people special
We're going to have a special section, with signs, to let people know they are dealing with farmers.
distracted good job lose publicity start sure
When you start you lose your focus, you don't play as well. You can't get distracted by good publicity or bad. You have to make sure you do your job and that's what he's been doing. Jose Theodore
distract issue management people shares uses whether
Whether we own shares for the short-term or long-term, it's a red-herring issue that incompetent management uses to distract people from the real issues, ... In this case, the issue is that Ligand is beset by Robinson's and Maier's incompetence and failure.
distracted greater jobs listened
We're most impressionable when we're 12 to 24 years old, so that what we wore, what we watched, what we listened to has greater import at the time, when you had yet to be distracted by things like jobs and families.
distracted head schedule takes totally
It's all discipline and schedule for me. I mean, it's very easy to get distracted by the real world and things that intrude constantly, and it takes dedication to live totally in your head and be tuned out. Kristin Gore
distraction factions states
The greatest threat to the state is not faction but distraction Aristotle
distracted finally flooded left mind sort tips undone until weight
I don't get distracted until the weight of other things left undone finally tips the balance; my mind is flooded with calls, bills, supermarkets, letters, and I have to stop and sort things out. Sadie Jones
distract letting turning work
When you read a book, you are letting another person distract your thoughts and work your emotions. If they are adept, there's nothing better than turning off and getting lost. Karin Slaughter
distracted time
In T20, you don't have time to get distracted - it's so quick, you have to run around in the field, and while batting, you don't actually think about anything else. Virat Kohli
distracted early looking opposed recovery senate
There are early indications of a recovery if you're looking for them as opposed to being distracted by Senate hearings.
lessons shapes pay
Everything shapes you to be the person you are today. Sometimes hard lessons pay off dividends. Al Jourgensen
lessons matter facts
No matter what you do, you can never please everyone. And that was the hardest lesson to learn. In fact, I'm still learning it. Chris Colfer
lessons painful evolve
Unless you continually work, evolve, and innovate, you'll learn a quick and painful lesson from someone who has. Cael Sanderson
less looking toward
We are looking less favorably toward 2016 bidding at this moment, Peter Ueberroth
less mean point push start sure year
We are at the point of the year where if you push him back, it could mean one less start at the end of the year. We need to make sure that he can pitch. If we do push him back, we want to make sure we have the matchups we need at the end of the season. Mike Scioscia
lessons used teach
I used to teach dance lessons. Eartha Kitt
lessons rewards hell
The lesson is, the rewards in life don't always go to the biggest, or the bravest, or the smartest. The rewards go to the dogged; and when your going though hell, to the person who just keeps going. Bear Grylls
lessons-to-be-learned alive process
Success is a process that continues, not a status that you reach. If you are alive, there are lessons to be learned. Denis Waitley
lessons firsts given
To know ourselves, is agreed by all to be the most useful Learning; the first Lessons, therefore, given us ought to be on that Subject. Eliza Haywood
listening
Yieldedness is vital in listening to what He has to say. Charles Stanley
listening wish newspapers
No one knows who is listening, say nothing you would not wish put in the newspapers. Charles Spurgeon
listening actors want
All I want to see from an actor is the intensity and accuracy of their listening. Alan Rickman
listening important actors
When I started out as an actor, I thought, Here's what I have to say; how shall I say it? I began to understand that what I do in the scene is not as important as what happens between me and the other person. And listening is what lets it happen. It's almost always the other person who causes you to say what you say next. You don't have to figure out how you'll say it. You have to listen so simply, so innocently, that the other person brings about a change in you that makes you say it and informs the way you say it. Alan Alda
listeners millions
I went from having 50 listeners to 50 million listeners. David Sedaris
listening i-can knows
I can't learn nothing from listening to me. That's something I already know. Buddy Guy
listening gold example
The carbon tax is the single biggest rolled gold example of Federal Labor not listening. Campbell Newman
listen
Why should you listen to any of us?
listening pay distraction
Listening without bias or distraction is the greatest value you can pay another person.
might stairs lorry
Mr Lorry asks the witness questions: Ever been kicked? Might have been. Frequently? No. Ever kicked down stairs? Decidedly not; once received a kick at the top of a staircase, and fell down stairs of his own accord. Charles Dickens
might use disaster
But ah! disasters have their use; And life might e'en be too sunshiny... Charles Stuart Calverley
might god-bless bless
God blesses us so that we might bless others!
might wells ifs
I thought, "Well if I'm gonna react might as well overreact! Alan Moore
might quiet
Dead … might not be quiet at all. Chris Bohjalian
might outcomes infinity
For every action, there's an infinity of outcomes. Countless trillions are possible, many milliards are likely, millions might be considered probable, several occur as possibilities to us as observers - and one comes true. China Mieville
might naked world
Alan Zweibel is the funniest writer in the world. He might be even funnier when he's naked, but I'm afraid to find out. Dave Barry
might tools ifs
If Mozart had power tools, there's no telling how great his music might have been.
might ruins bourgeoisie
The bourgeoisie might blast and ruin its own world before it leaves the stage of history. Buenaventura Durruti
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.
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.
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.
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.
people next cleanliness
Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.
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.
people enemy
Some people are nobody's enemies but their own
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
successful mislead-us watches
Falsehood is never so successful as when she baits her hook with truth, and no opinions so fatally mislead us as those that are not wholly wrong, as no watches so effectively deceive the wearer as those that are sometimes right.
success pride winning
To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it; for when we fail, our pride supports us - when we succeed, it betrays us.
success achievement conceit
Success seems to be that which forms the distinction between confidence and conceit.
success hate men
For one man who sincerely pities our misfortunes, there are a thousand who sincerely hate our success.
success kissing hands
To judge by the event is an error all commit: for in every instance courage, if crowned with success, is heroism; if clouded by defeat, temerity. When Nelson fought his battle in the Sound, it was the result alone that decided whether he was to kiss a hand at court or a rod at a court-martial.
success congratulations adversity
Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.
success achievement silence
Constant success shows us but one side of the world. For as it surrounds us with friends who will tell us only our merits, so it silences those enemies from whom alone we can learn our defects.
successful causes flourishing
The increasing importance of Sydney must in some measure be attributed to the flourishing condition of the colony itself, to the industry of its farmers, to the successful enterprise of its merchants, and to particular local causes. Charles Sturt
success eggs laziness
The goose that lays the golden eggs likes to lay where there are eggs already.
wise words-of-wisdom godmother
This reminds me, Godmother, to ask you a serious question. You are as wise as wise can be (having been brought up by the fairies), and you can tell me this: Is it better to have had a good thing and lost it, or never to have had it?
wise men may
A wise man may be duped as well as a fool; but the fool publishes the triumph of the deceiver.
wise money thinking
It is a common observation that any fool can get money; but they are not wise that think so.
wise light fire
If martyrdom is now on the decline, it is not because martyrs are less zealous, but because martyr-mongers are more wise. The light of intellect has put out the fire of persecution, as other fires are observed to smoulder before the light of the same.
wise art moments
The art of declamation has been sinking in value from the moment that speakers were foolish enough to publish, and hearers wise enough to read.
wise heart wine
Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.
wise foolish gravity
Levity is often less foolish and gravity less wise than each of them appears.
wise men thinking
He that thinks he is the happiest man, really is so. But he that thinks he is the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.
wise men littles
We must be careful how we flatter fools too little, or wise men too much, for the flatterer must act the very reverse of the physician, and administer the strongest dose only to the weakest patient.