Quality in a classical Greek sense is how to live with grace and intelligence, with bravery and mercy.
~By Theodore White ~
The disgrace of others often keeps tender minds from vice.
~By Horace ~
Grace is but glory begun, and glory is but grace perfected.
~By Jonathan Edwards ~
When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.
~By Victor Hugo ~
Grace tried is better than grace, and more than grace; it is glory in its infancy.
~By Samuel Rutherford ~
Elves are like trees, grounded and focused from the trunk down but graceful and agile on top.
~By Orlando Bloom ~
Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner.
~By Charles Caleb Colton ~
The signs of outstanding leadership appear primarily among the followers. Are the followers reaching their potential? Are they learning? Serving? Do they achieve the required results? Do they change with grace? Manage conflict?
~By Max de Pree ~
Learn to... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.
~By Henri Frederic Amiel ~
That we are not much sicker and much madder than we are is due exclusively to that most blessed and blessing of all natural graces, sleep.
~By Aldous Huxley ~
The people who illegally cross into the country are from countries that have very close ties to al Qaeda, whether it's Yemen or Afghanistan, Pakistan, China. It is an absolute national disgrace.
~By Rick Perry ~
The Helicon of too many poets is not a hill crowned with sunshine and visited by the Muses and the Graces, but an old, mouldering house, full of gloom and haunted by ghosts.
~By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ~
I don't plan to grow old gracefully. I plan to have face-lifts until my ears meet.
~By Rita Rudner ~
I avoid talking before the youth of the age as I would dancing before them: for if one's tongue don't move in the steps of the day, and thinks to please by its old graces, it is only an object of ridicule.
~By Horace Walpole ~
I have deserved neither so much honor or so much disgrace.
~By Pierre Corneille ~
The artist is the confidant of nature, flowers carry on dialogues with him through the graceful bending of their stems and the harmoniously tinted nuances of their blossoms. Every flower has a cordial word which nature directs towards him.
~By Auguste Rodin ~
Humility is a grace that shines in a high condition but cannot, equally, in a low one because a person in the latter is already, perhaps, too much humbled.
~By Samuel Richardson ~
Christians were instructed to serve others, and the thanksgiving was for the grace of God and the fact that God offered a way for man to return to a positive relationship with Him.
~By John Clayton ~
The number of guests at dinner should not be less than the number of the Graces nor exceed that of the Muses, i.e., it should begin with three and stop at nine.
~By Marcus Terentius Varro ~
You all know that I have been sustained throughout my life by three saving graces - my family, my friends, and a faith in the power of resilience and hope. These graces have carried me through difficult times and they have brought more joy to the good times than I ever could have imagined.
~By Elizabeth Edwards ~
I like to think of sales as the ability to gracefully persuade, not manipulate, a person or persons into a win-win situation.
~By Bo Bennett ~
To hit bottom is to fall from grace.
~By Douglas Horton ~
Grace has been defined as the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul.
~By William Hazlitt ~
But Patsy, she was a great, great girl. And Brenda Lee is a wonderful person, and her mama Grace. I've known those folks for years and years and years.
~By Mel Tillis ~
It is to be remedied that the false traitors will suffer no man to come into the king's presence for no cause without bribes where none ought to be had. Any man might have his coming to him to ask him grace or judgment in such case as the king may give.
~By Jack Cade ~
Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace.
~By George Santayana ~
God hath made it a debt which one saint owes to another to carry their names to a throne of grace.
~By William Gurnall ~
The written word is the basic of everything. Most important, the idea, and after that, the dialogue. You can rehash the dialogue as you go along, it 's disgraceful to have to do this, but now and again you have no choice.
~By Terence Fisher ~
Humanism and Divinity are as complementary to one another in theorder of culture, as are Nature and Grace in the order of being.
~By Christopher Dawson ~
My rights all spring front an infinitely nobler source - from favor and grace of God.
~By Gerrit Smith ~
And you know, when you've experienced grace and you feel like you've been forgiven, you're a lot more forgiving of other people. You're a lot more gracious to others.
~By Rick Warren ~
Tell me I'm clever, Tell me I'm kind, Tell me I'm talented, Tell me I'm cute, Tell me I'm sensitive, Graceful and wise, Tell me I'm perfect - But tell me the truth.
~By Shel Silverstein ~
The grace of God is courtesy.
~By Hilaire Belloc ~
I come from the New York theatre world, and I have a lot of gay male friends, so this friendship of Will and Grace's isn't such a stretch.
~By Debra Messing ~
Through selfless work, love of God grows in the heart. Then through his grace one realize him in course of time. God can be seen. One can talk to him as I am talking to you.
~By Ramakrishna ~
We are saved by grace, not by the works of the law. But don't be so quick to write the law off.
~By Randall Terry ~
It is better to die than to preserve this life by incurring disgrace. The loss of life causes but a moment's grief, but disgrace brings grief every day of one's life.
~By Chanakya ~
Get place and wealth, if possible with grace; if not, by any means get wealth and place.
~By Alexander Pope ~
Great comforts do, indeed, bear witness to the truth of thy grace, but not to the degree of it; the weak child is oftener in the lap than the strong one.
~By William Gurnall ~
For we can affirm with a good conscience that we have, after reading the Holy Scripture, applied ourselves and yet daily apply ourselves to the extent that the grace of the Lord permits to inquiry into and investigation of the consensus of the true and purer antiquity.
~By Martin Chemnitz ~
Whatever we are waiting for - peace of mind, contentment, grace, the inner awareness of simple abundance - it will surely come to us, but only when we are ready to receive it with an open and grateful heart.
~By Sarah Ban Breathnach ~
In regard of the rich grace and wisdom of his love toward his people; for who sees not, but that it is a curse to be unready as these foolish virgins, who were therefore shut out.
~By Thomas Shepard ~
I just look at it, as it's something that I had to do. I had this vision that really, Graceland is suited for a king and it is his castle. And people really should see it, as he loved it.
~By Priscilla Presley ~
Each of the Arts whose office is to refine, purify, adorn, embellish and grace life is under the patronage of a Muse, no god being found worthy to preside over them.
~By Eliza Farnham ~
At Munich we sold the Czechs for a few months grace, but the disgrace will last as long as history.
~By F. L. Lucas ~
There was Shawon Dunston and Mark Grace, and together we were a double play combination for ten years.
~By Ryne Sandberg ~
It is a most disgraceful shame the way in which Irishmen are brought up. They are ashamed of their language, institutions, and of everything Irish.
~By Douglas Hyde ~
At that time, I had recently finished a book called Amazing Grace, which many people tell me is a very painful book to read. Well, if it was painful to read, it was also painful to write. I had pains in my chest for two years while I was writing that book.
~By Jonathan Kozol ~
I hope there's a tinge of disgrace about me. Hopefully, there's one good scandal left in me yet.
~By Diana Rigg ~
Peace is the happy natural state of man; war is corruption and disgrace.
~By James Thomson ~
When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace, and death a duty.
~By W. C. Fields ~
I beg my Children to be just and virtuous, never to disgrace my name or theirs, and then they are out of fortune's power.
~By Thomas Willis ~
There can be a fundamental gulf of gracelessness in a human heart which neither our love nor our courage can bridge.
~By Patrick Campbell ~
Literature is a state of culture, poetry is a state of grace, before and after culture.
~By Juan Ramon Jimenez ~
Augustine does not disagree with this when he teaches that it is a faculty of the reason and the will to choose good with the assistance of grace; evil, when grace is absent.
~By John Calvin ~
Everyone is like a butterfly, they start out ugly and awkward and then morph into beautiful graceful butterflies that everyone loves.
~By Drew Barrymore ~
With respect to Holy Communion, it is up to the communicant to decide whether they are in a state of grace and worthy to receive the Eucharist. Each one of us makes that decision.
~By Roger Mahony ~
That is the saving grace of humor, if you fail no one is laughing at you.
~By A. Whitney Brown ~
Infuse your life with action. Don't wait for it to happen. Make it happen. Make your own future. Make your own hope. Make your own love. And whatever your beliefs, honor your creator, not by passively waiting for grace to come down from upon high, but by doing what you can to make grace happen... yourself, right now, right down here on Earth.
~By Bradley Whitford ~
The world is not imperfect or slowly evolving along a path to perfection. No, it is perfect at every moment, every sin already carries grace in it.
~By Herman Hesse ~
There is no disgrace in an enemy suffering ill at an enemy's hand, when you hate mutually.
~By Aeschylus ~
He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.
~By Aeschylus ~
Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a man dying in a devastating, disgraceful, helpless death.
~By Karen Armstrong ~
I like the idea of growing old gracefully and full of wrinkles... like Audrey Hepburn.
~By Natalie Imbruglia ~
A man whose life has been dishonourable is not entitled to escape disgrace in death.
~By Lucius Accius ~
The grace thou hast will soon be less, if thou addest not more to it.
~By William Gurnall ~
If a man suffers ill, let it be without shame; for this is the only profit when we are dead. You will never say a good word about deeds that are evil and disgraceful.
~By Aeschylus ~
A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality.
~By Pindar ~
From that moment, I did not cease to pray to God that by his grace it might one day be permitted to me to learn Greek.
~By Heinrich Schliemann ~
No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.
~By John Donne ~
Democracy may not prove in the long run to be as efficient as other forms of government, but it has one saving grace: it allows us to know and say that it isn't.
~By Bill Moyers ~
And now let me address all of you, high and low, rich and poor, one with another, to accept of mercy and grace while it is offered to you; Now is the accepted time, now is the day of salvation; and will you not accept it, now it is offered unto you?
~By George Whitefield ~
Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.
~By Karl Barth ~
Rain is grace; rain is the sky descending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life.
~By John Updike ~
Extraordinary afflictions are not always the punishment of extraordinary sins, but sometimes the trial of extraordinary graces.
~By Matthew Henry ~
I get it now; I didn't get it then. That life is about losing and about doing it as gracefully as possible... and enjoying everything in between.
~By Mia Farrow ~
The augmentation of slaves weakens the states; and such a trade is diabolical in itself, and disgraceful to mankind.
~By George Mason ~
Women wish to be loved without a why or a wherefore; not because they are pretty, or good, or well-bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.
~By Henri Frederic Amiel ~
Grace is the beauty of form under the influence of freedom.
~By Friedrich Schiller ~
A singer starts by having his instrument as a gift from God... When you have been given something in a moment of grace, it is sacrilegious to be greedy.
~By Marian Anderson ~
Although the whole man partakes of this grace, it is first and most appropriately in the soul and later progresses to the body, inasmuch as the body of the man is capable of the same obedience to the will of God as the soul.
~By William Ames ~
I refuse to age disgracefully in rock 'n' roll.
~By Ben Harper ~
I seek constantly to improve my manners and graces, for they are the sugar to which all are attracted.
~By Og Mandino ~
Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times.
~By Martin Luther ~
Hate your next-door neighbor, but don't forget to say grace.
~By Barry McGuire ~
Drinking habits were very prevalent among men, and were not in any way disgraceful, unless excessive.
~By Catherine Helen Spence ~
I have come to the conclusion that one useless man is called a disgrace, that two are called a law firm, and that three or more become a congress.
~By Peter Stone ~
Do you know that the ready concession of minor points is a part of the grace of life?
~By Henry Harland ~
Each day offers us the gift of being a special occasion if we can simply learn that as well as giving, it is blessed to receive with grace and a grateful heart.
~By Sarah Ban Breathnach ~
As much as I value an union of all the states, I would not admit the southern states into the union, unless they agreed to the discontinuance of this disgraceful trade, because it would bring weakness and not strength to the union.
~By George Mason ~
Grace is the absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty, hesitation or incongruity.
~By William Hazlitt ~
For to be poised against fatality, to meet adverse conditions gracefully, is more than simple endurance; it is an act of aggression, a positive triumph.
~By Thomas Mann ~
Like all my family and class, I considered it a sign of weakness to show affection; to have been caught kissing my mother would have been a disgrace, and to have shown affection for my father would have been a disaster.
~By Agnes Smedley ~
If the Lord should bring a wicked man to heaven, heaven would be hell to him; for he who loves not grace upon earth will never love it in heaven.
~By Christopher Love ~
In ambition, as in love, the successful can afford to be indulgent toward their rivals. The prize our own, it is graceful to recognize the merit that vainly aspired to it.
~By Christian Nestell Bovee ~
The trick is to be grateful when your mood is high and graceful when it is low.
~By Richard Carlson ~
The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.
~By Aristotle ~
Once more, Never think that you can live to God by your own power or strength; but always look to and rely on him for assistance, yea, for all strength and grace.
~By David Brainerd ~
Seldom ever was any knowledge given to keep, but to impart; the grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.
~By Wendell Phillips ~
It's as if our electric grid didn't even have fences around it. This is disgraceful what we do, and what we don't do, to protect the Internet.
~By Paul Vixie ~
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