Related Quotes
All quotes about:
gratitude circles fire
Envy, if surrounded on all sides by the brightness of another's prosperity, like the scorpion confined within a circle of fire, will sting itself to death. Charles Caleb Colton
gratitude men serenity
The benevolent have the advantage of the envious, even in this present life; for the envious man is tormented not only by all the ill that befalls himself, but by all the good that happens to another; whereas the benevolent man is the better prepared to bear his own calamities unruffled, from the complacency and serenity he has secured from contemplating the prosperity of all around him.
gratitude dross made
It is not until we have passed through the furnace that we are made to know how much dross there is in our composition.
gratitude revenge punctual
Revenge is a much more punctual paymaster than gratitude
gratitude revenge games
An act by which we make one friend and one enemy is a losing game; because revenge is a much stronger principle than gratitude
gratitude powerful yield
There are three kinds of praise, that which we yield, that which we lend, and that which we pay. We yield it to the powerful from fear, we lend it to the weak from interest, and we pay it to the deserving from gratitude.
gratitude revenge adversity
The reason why great men meet with so little pity or attachment in adversity, would seem to be this: the friends of a great man were made by his fortune, his enemies by himself, and revenge is a much more punctual paymaster than gratitude.
gratitude grateful language
No metaphysician ever felt the deficiency of language so much as the grateful.
gratitude appreciation attitude
True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander.
government people should
People shouldn't be afraid of their government. Governments should be afraid of their people. Alan Moore
government giving enemy
In the time of Mrs Thatcher the church, to give it its due, spoke out and was an enemy of the Conservative government. Alan Green
government favors corruption
In general, corruption tends to exist whenever governments have favors to extend, or something to sell. Alan Greenspan
government purpose regulators
The guiding purpose of the government regulator is to prevent rather than to create something.
government support political
Stripped of its academic jargon, the welfare state is nothing more than a mechanism by which governments confiscate the wealth of the productive members of a society to support a wide variety of welfare schemes. A substantial part of the confiscation is effected by taxation. But the welfare statists were quick to recognize that if they wished to retain political power, the amount of taxation had to be limited and they had to resort to programs of massive deficit spending, i.e., they had to borrow money,by issuing government bonds, to finance welfare expenditures on a large scale.
government self credit
We are in the midst of a once-in-a-century credit tsunami. Central banks and governments are being required to take unprecedented measures. Those of us who have looked to the self-interest of lending institutions to protect shareholders' equity are in a state of shocked disbelief.
government giving needs
We need an amendment that gives us the right to vote protected by the federal government and the Constitution. Al Sharpton
government america united-states
If we have any problems, it's always with the government of the United States. Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
government opportunity work
We want the opportunity to work with the government on this. Andy Troszok
apathy care true-or-false
Everywhere there is apathy. Nobody cares whether that which is preached is true or false. A sermon is a sermon whatever the subject; only, the shorter it is, the better. Charles Spurgeon
apathy enough said
I said I wasn't interested, and she was bright enough to say that she wasn't really interested either. As things turned out, we both overestimated our apathies, but not that much. Kurt Vonnegut
apathy claim credits failure sums vast whether
Whether through apathy or confusion, the failure to claim these credits is just one way we're needlessly gifting vast sums to the taxman each year.
apathy vain accused
I've been accused of being very vain about my apathy. Bret Easton Ellis
apathy barrel blair breeding bush cheer contempt evil fish laws liars nation people rather sincere sooner support surrounded wherever
When the people of a nation out of sincere ignorance, conscientious stupidity, and/or apathy cheer and support liars and murderers like Bush and Blair they are breeding contempt for the laws of the land. These people will find themselves, sooner rather than later, surrounded by incomprehensible evil wherever they go. They become more like fish in a barrel than people. Bobby Miller
apathy opposition
I was faced more with apathy than opposition. Adrian Cronauer
apathy beautiful believe change children destroyed dream fearless gleam god help hope idealism illusions intricate longer missing today truly youth
We are missing something. Our youth today is empty. No longer do the children dream and believe they can change the world. Apathy has destroyed the beautiful idealism of our youth. The intricate illusions and fearless aspirations. The gleam in a child's eye. God help us. All hope is truly lost.
apathy compassion fear individual life passes
When an individual fear or apathy passes by the unfortunate, life is of no account.
apathy days disease
No one cares. Apathy is a disease and some days I long for it.