Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alexandra Fuller

I always knew mum loved me - tough, look-after-yourself love, as if she knew she wouldn't always be there.

Edward Halifax

Misspending a man's time is a kind of self-homicide.

Granth Sahib

One who contemplates his own self is truly wise.

Chris Evert

Being famous before you've formed your personality, before you have that self-esteem, is dangerous.

Chris Evert

To be a tennis champion, you have to be inflexible. You have to be stubborn. You have to be arrogant. You have to be selfish and self-absorbed. Kind of tunnel vision almost.

Chris Evans

I'm a big fan of working out on my own. I put my headphones on and I'm pretty good at self-motivating. At the end of the day, I enjoy it. Once I'm there and once I get going, I tend to love it, and I feel good.

Charles Spurgeon

Those who think themselves secure are more exposed to danger than any others. The armor-bearer of sin is self-confidence .

Charles Spurgeon

When we come to the end of self we come to the beginning of Christ.

Charles Spurgeon

To rejoice in temporal comforts is dangerous, to rejoice in self is foolish, to rejoice in sin is fatal, but to rejoice in God is heavenly.

Albert Schweitzer

Good is that which promotes life, evil is that which destroys life

Albert Schweitzer

Reverence for Life affords me my fundamental principle of morality, namely, that good consists in maintaining, assisting, and enhancing life and that to destroy, harm, or to hinder life is evil. Affirmation of the world - that is affirmation of the will to live, which appears in phenomenal forms all around me - is only possible for me in that I give myself out for other life.

Sathya Baba

Love is your life, your friend, your relative, your food and your everything. Heart that is filled with love can never be polluted. Love is nectarine. Once you fill it in your heart, the poison of evil will have no place in it.

Bob Dole

Look. See No Evil.... Hear No Evil.... and EVIL.

Johann Lavater

Mistrust the man who finds everything good; the man who finds everything evil; and still more the man who is indifferent to everything

German Proverb

One does evil enough when one does nothing good

William Wordsworth

One impulse from a vernal wood May teach you more of man, Of moral evil and of good, Than all the sages can.

Hitopadesa Hitopadesa

No one should form an acquaintance with one who has an evil character. A piece of coal, if it is hot burns, and if it's cold, blackens the hands.

David Vise

When you put something out there like 'Don't Be Evil,' you get held to a higher standard,

Elbert Hubbard

To subjugate another is to subjugate yourself.

Abraham Lincoln

I say now, however, as I have all the while said, that on the territorial question - that is, the question of extending slavery under the national auspices, - I am inflexible. I am for no compromise which assists or permits the extension of the institution on soil owned by the nation.

Abraham Lincoln

An inspection of the Constitution will show that the right of property in a slave in not "distinctly and expressly affirmed" in it.

Abraham Lincoln

You know I dislike slavery; and you fully admit the abstract wrong of it.

Abraham Lincoln

We want, and must have, a national policy, as to slavery, which deals with it as being wrong.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

In England, theres no acknowledgement the invention of slavery came from Britain.

Caleb Cushing

I declare and protest in advance, that I do not intend, at this time at least; to be drawn or driven into the question of slavery, in either of its subdivisions or forms.

David Brooks

Freedom without structure is its own slavery.

Beau Willimon

The fact that slavery is written into the Constitution is about as entrenched a form of classism as you could possibly imagine.