Our prejudices are our mistresses; reason is at best our wife, very often heard indeed, but seldom minded. ~By Philip Stanhope ~
How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds makes ill deeds done! ~By William Shakespeare ~
Without a notion of the transcendental, human beings would, indeed, be animals; however, only fools can be convinced of it, and only degenerates need such a conviction. ~By Franz Grillparzer ~
No one will expect the British Government or the Government of India to give way to threats of violence, disorder and chaos; and, indeed, representatives of large sections of Indian opinion have expressly warned us that we must not do so. ~By Stafford Cripps ~
Indeed, in the present climate of mistrust of institutions, many people who yearn for a more meaningful and fulfilling life would regard the church as an unlikely place to go for guidance. ~By Hugh Mackay ~
Members will hear me say repeatedly words are important; deeds are a reality. ~By Jon Corzine ~
Indeed it is better to postpone, lest either we complete too little by hurrying, or wander too long in completing it. ~By Tertullian ~
And I am also here to say that if something were to happen, we are prepared to respond swiftly, to respond effectively, and to respond strongly. That is our tradition as a country. And that is a tradition that we will uphold, regardless of any circumstance because this nation is one that is very, very strong and, indeed, extraordinarily resilient. ~By Janet Napolitano ~
I do believe that there are some universal cognitive tasks that are deep and profound - indeed, so deep and profound that it is worthwhile to understand them in order to design our displays in accord with those tasks. ~By Edward Tufte ~
Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand. ~By Hippocrates ~
The Soviet Union has indeed been our greatest menace, not so much because of what it has done, but because of the excuses it has provided us for our failures. ~By J. William Fulbright ~
If you are as happy in entering the White House as I shall feel on returning to Wheatland, you are a happy man indeed. ~By James Buchanan ~
Let deeds match words. ~By Titus Maccius Plautus ~
Who to himself is law, no law doth need, offends no law, and is a king indeed. ~By George Chapman ~
The foreign accent was a promise, and indeed, all over the country, European imports added spice to the sciences, the arts, and other areas. What one had to give was not considered inferior to what one received. ~By Rudolf Arnheim ~
It is a damn poor mind indeed which can't think of at least two ways to spell any word. ~By Andrew Jackson ~
My painting is visible images which conceal nothing... they evoke mystery and indeed when one sees one of my pictures, one asks oneself this simple question 'What does that mean'? It does not mean anything, because mystery means nothing either, it is unknowable. ~By Rene Magritte ~
It is a rare mind indeed that can render the hitherto non-existent blindingly obvious. The cry 'I could have thought of that' is a very popular and misleading one, for the fact is that they didn't, and a very significant and revealing fact it is too. ~By Douglas Adams ~
To spend this particular year reading essays to Dennis Robertson as one's supervisor, and, simultaneously, enjoying membership of the group round Keynes was indeed an intellectual treat. ~By James Meade ~
In essence, String Theory describes space and time, matter and energy, gravity and light, indeed all of God's creation... as music. ~By Roy H. Williams ~
To despise riches, may, indeed, be philosophic, but to dispense them worthily, must surely be more beneficial to mankind. ~By Fanny Burney ~
It has yet to be shown by direct biochemical methods, as opposed to the indirect genetic evidence mentioned earlier, that the code is indeed a triplet code. ~By Francis Crick ~
And it turned out that the Roberts Commission did not fully utilize the information available and that it came to conclusions which were I think quite short sighted and, indeed, in some cases, scapegoated individuals. ~By Richard Ben Veniste ~
G is Grace, the Flaming Star is the Torch of Reason. Those who possess this knowledge are indeed Illuminati. ~By Adam Weishaupt ~
Honest people don't hide their deeds. ~By Emily Bronte ~
I courted fame but as a spur to brave and honest deeds; who despises fame will soon renounce the virtues that deserve it. ~By David Mallet ~
The divine law indeed has excluded women from this ministry, but they endeavour to thrust themselves into it; and since they can effect nothing of themselves, they do all through the agency of others. ~By John Chrysostom ~
Instead of saying that globalization is a fact, that it's inevitable, we've also got to demonstrate that while the growing interdependence of the world economy is indeed a fact, it's not uncontrollable. ~By Peter Mandelson ~
God tolerates even our stammering, and pardons our ignorance whenever something inadvertently escapes us - as, indeed, without this mercy there would be no freedom to pray. ~By John Calvin ~
God the Father and God the Son cannot be everywhere present; indeed they cannot be even in two places at the same instant: but God the Holy Spirit is omnipresent - it extends through all space, with all other matter. ~By Orson Pratt ~
And indeed, last week, the FBI executed a search warrant on my residence. This happened one day after my attorneys had left a message on the lead FBI investigator's voice mail confirming my continued readiness to answer questions and otherwise cooperate. ~By Steven Hatfill ~
In great deeds something abides. ~By Joseph L. Chamberlain ~
Where I come from, deeds mean a lot more than words. ~By Zell Miller ~
Out of fifty mathematical papers presented in brief at such a meeting, it is a rare mathematician indeed who really understands what more than half a dozen are about. ~By E. T. Bell ~
Indeed, as the above calculation indicates, to take full advantage of the memory space available, the ultimate laptop must turn all its matter into energy. ~By Seth Lloyd ~
Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue. ~By Buddha ~
I am indeed rich, since my income is superior to my expenses, and my expense is equal to my wishes. ~By Edward Gibbon ~
Well, a friend in need is a friend indeed. ~By Edgar Bergen ~
The person who can bring the spirit of laughter into a room is indeed blessed. ~By Bennett Cerf ~
To be born in Wales, not with a silver spoon in your mouth, but, with music in your blood and with poetry in your soul, is a privilege indeed. ~By Brian Harris ~
Man has made many machines, complex and cunning, but which of them indeed rivals the workings of his heart? ~By Pablo Casals ~
Indeed, American companies make three times as much profits from their investment in one E.U. country, Ireland, than they do from all their investments in China. ~By John Bruton ~
In light of these facts Republicans have put forth a variety of proposals to make Social Security remain solvent for future generations. But up to this point, Democrats have chosen to oppose our good faith efforts and insist that indeed there is no problem. ~By John Doolittle ~
Little deeds are like little seeds, they grow to flowers or to weeds. ~By Daniel D. Palmer ~
Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense. ~By Amelia Earhart ~
Memories of our lives, of our works and our deeds will continue in others. ~By Rosa Parks ~
A wrong concept misleads the understanding; a wrong deed degrades the whole man, and may eventually demolish the structure of the human ego. ~By Muhammed Iqbal ~
The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth. ~By Ramakrishna ~
The correct didactic analysis is one that does not in the least differ from the curative treatment. How, indeed, shall the future analyst learn the technique if he does not experience it just exactly as he is to apply it later? ~By Otto Rank ~
Others indeed may talk, and write, and fight about liberty, and make an outward pretence to it; but the free-thinker alone is truly free. ~By George Berkeley ~
A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people. ~By Frederick Douglass ~
The purpose firm is equal to the deed. ~By Edward Young ~
Indian names were either characteristic nicknames given in a playful spirit, deed names, birth names, or such as have a religious and symbolic meaning. ~By Charles Eastman ~
Money is the worst currency that ever grew among mankind. This sacks cities, this drives men from their homes, this teaches and corrupts the worthiest minds to turn base deeds. ~By Sophocles ~
May we be saved from evil thoughts and deed of enemies of world peace who find pleasure in creating havoc and perpetrating all forms of carnage. ~By Yahya Jammeh ~
The living Church of the redeemed is his book. He founded a religion of the living spirit, not of a written code, like the Mosaic law. Yet his words and deeds are recorded by as honest and reliable witnesses as ever put pen to paper. ~By Philip Schaff ~
The world, as transformed by this creative deed, is better than it would have been had all else remained the same, but had that deed of treason not been done at all. ~By Josiah Royce ~
Our present time is indeed a criticizing and critical time, hovering between the wish, and the inability to believe. Our complaints are like arrows shot up into the air at no target: and with no purpose they only fall back upon our own heads and destroy ourselves. ~By William Temple ~
It is our duty to watch over the actions and activities of this government and to insist that, in words as well as in deeds, the interests of our constituency primarily and of the Nation ultimately are served. ~By Diane Watson ~
This is not writing at all. Indeed, I could say that Shakespeare surpasses literature altogether, if I knew what I meant. ~By Virginia Woolf ~
Democracies are indeed slow to make war, but once embarked upon a martial venture are equally slow to make peace and reluctant to make a tolerable, rather than a vindictive, peace. ~By Reinhold Niebuhr ~
We thought it would be fun to try to design a show that would work well internationally and so that' s what we're intending to do with Fraggle Rock, and we are indeed now selling it around the world. ~By Jim Henson ~
Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks. ~By Herodotus ~
Other famous men, those of much talk and few deeds, soon evaporate. Action is the dignity of greatness. ~By Jose Marti ~
The great weight of the ship may indeed prevent her from acquiring her greatest velocity; but when she has attained it, she will advance by her own intrinsic motion, without gaining any new degree of velocity, or lessening what she has acquired. ~By William Falconer ~
Whence it is somewhat strange that any men from so mean and silly a practice should expect commendation, or that any should afford regard thereto; the which it is so far from meriting, that indeed contempt and abhorrence are due to it. ~By Isaac Barrow ~
There's no doubt about it that Mubarak has been indeed a partner with Israel, but there's also no doubt about something else. Conditions in Egypt were getting worse and worse, and it was almost just a matter of time before the popular uprising started. ~By Anthony Weiner ~
The true picture of life as it is, if it could be adequately painted, would show men what they are, and how they might rise, not, indeed to perfection, but one step first, and then another on the ladder. ~By Anthony Trollope ~
Now that I look back, I realize that a life predicated on being obedient and taking orders is a very comfortable life indeed. Living in such a way reduces to a minimum one's need to think. ~By Adolf Eichmann ~
If it be not a sin, an open, flagrant violation of all the rules of justice and humanity, to hold these slaves in bondage, it is indeed folly to put ourselves to any trouble and expense in order to free them. ~By Samuel Hopkins ~
I am not solicitous to examine particularly everything here, which indeed could not be done in fifty years, because my desire is to make all possible discoveries, and return to your Highnesses, if it please our Lord, in April. ~By Christopher Columbus ~
To force a man to pay for the violation of his own liberty is indeed an addition of insult to injury. ~By Benjamin Tucker ~
It was not the path I was to take. Because of my deeds, I will never know peace again. ~By Hiawatha ~
I am 100 percent supportive of the stand-alone bill to repeal 'don't ask, don't tell' that Sens. Lieberman and Collins have now proposed, and indeed I will co-sponsor that legislation. It is time for this discriminatory policy to end, and I am willing to pursue any effective legislative path that could lead to that result. ~By Carl Levin ~
The deed is everything, the glory is naught. ~By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ~
I couldn't live a week without a private library - indeed, I'd part with all my furniture and squat and sleep on the floor before I'd let go of the 1500 or so books I possess. ~By H. P. Lovecraft ~
The conductor's gift does not always go hand in hand with that of composition; indeed, the union is found much more seldom than is popularly believed. ~By Anton Seidl ~
One cannot with impunity try to transfer this task entirely to mechanical assistants if one wishes to figure something, even though the final result is often small indeed. ~By Max Webber ~
Indeed, there are so many prejudices against everyday middle-class values on college campuses, and serving in the military and being pro-American just seems to be one of them. ~By Jack Kingston ~
It is true, indeed, that the national domain is ours. It is true it was acquired by the valor and with the wealth of the whole nation. But we hold, nevertheless, no arbitrary power over it. ~By William H. Seward ~
It's been fascinating watching all those pictures of me with a lot more hair Jeremy, and looking very young. And we've all got things we've said, twenty, thirty years ago, indeed the whole world has changed since then. ~By Peter Hain ~
There was the situation in Nicaragua where the Sandinistas had taken over a couple of years earlier. There was a civil war going on in El Salvador and there was a similar situation in Guatemala. So Honduras was in a rather precarious geographic position indeed. ~By John Negroponte ~
To understand Mozart's contradictory qualities would indeed be to understand genius. ~By Lukas Foss ~
Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes. ~By Voltaire ~
I believe that my own Christian faith does indeed make universal claims. ~By Timothy Radcliffe ~
Words can sometimes, in moments of grace, attain the quality of deeds. ~By Elie Wiesel ~
But there is a difference here: When Jewish children are murdered, Arabs celebrate the deed. The death of an Arab child is no cause for celebration in Israel. ~By Theodore Bikel ~
A terrible animal, indeed, is an unbridled woman. ~By John Lothrop Motley ~
Job plunges into a series of demands on and accusations of God which may be and indeed are epigrams of high intelligence, but are not noticeably patient. ~By Charles Williams ~
Indeed it is very hard, when we have let the King's subjects have so much of our lands for so little value. ~By Joseph Brant ~
Indeed every monad must be different from every other. For there are never in nature two beings, which are precisely alike, and in which it is not possible to find some difference which is internal, or based on some intrinsic quality. ~By Gottfried Leibniz ~
One tries to be an observer as an actor and indeed as a director because the small things, the give-away things are what are really interesting to a performer. ~By Janet Suzman ~
For myself, I am very small indeed in my own eyes. ~By Shmuel Y. Agnon ~
Anarchists prepare for social revolution and use every means- speech, writing, or deed, whichever is more to the point - to accelerate revolutionary development. ~By Johann Most ~
I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect - in terror. ~By Edgar Allan Poe ~
True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new. ~By Antoine de Saint-Exupery ~
He has the deed half done who has made a beginning. ~By Horace ~
There isn't much to say. I haven't been at all deedy. ~By Ivy Compton-Burnett ~
Indeed it can be argued that to make a powerful film you must care about the subject, therefore powerful films tend to be both political and partisan in nature. ~By Ben Edwards ~
Long after the bomb falls and you and your good deeds are gone, cockroaches will still be here, prowling the streets like armored cars. ~By Tama Janowitz ~
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