The word 'experienced' often refers to someone who's gotten away with doing the wrong thing more frequently than you have.
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Doing the right thing for someone else occasionally means doing something that feels wrong to you.
JODI PICOULT Humans are born with superiority complex and we know the meaning of the word racist. But what is the...
FLORD VIOUZRE No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.
FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD It is better to be wrong (fail) in doing the right thing than to be right (successful) in doing the ...
JAIME CONTRERAS If you are a stock broker, you have to have responsibility, like a painter, you have to know your su...
KAMIL KUBIK Sometimes I think to get to the emotional level of a scene, you don't necessarily have to have e...
JUDY GREER Not doing anything can be worse than doing the wrong thing.
ALEXANDRA POTTER Maturity is often more absurd than youth and very frequently is most unjust to youth.
THOMAS ALVA EDISON Maturity is often more absurd than youth and very frequently is most unjust to youth.
THOMAS A. EDISON Maturity is often more absurd than youth and very frequently is most unjust to youth.
THOMAS A. EDISON Maturity is often more absurd than youth and very frequently is most unjust to youth
THOMAS ALVA EDISON Nothing is funnier than confidently doing the wrong thing.
ADAM MCKAY The thing that's wrong with the French is that they don't have a word for entrepreneur
GEORGE W. BUSH Sometimes it is better to lose and do the right thing than to win and do the wrong thing.
TONY BLAIR The first thing you need to do is to look at what you're doing with your hands, and how you're doing...
ALAN HEDGE It is much better to do the right thing wrong than the wrong thing right, because when errors are co...
RUSSELL ACKOFF You have to feel more involved than just writing out a cheque. Charity is almost the wrong word - I ...
JOANNA LUMLEY Success is a beast. And it actually puts the emphasis on the wrong thing. You get away with more ins...
BRAD PITT The root of the word “integrity” is “integer.” It’s a math term - and it refers to whole n...
JOSH HATCHER It's crazy right??
To love some one whos hurt you.
But it's crazier to think that
someone who hurt y...
ISABELLA Laurence the last time I saw something like you I flushed it away.
MARK A. COOPER Antarctica is a very alien environment, and you can't survive here more than minutes if you'...
JON KRAKAUER In the tradition of psychology, what the word shyness basically refers to is if someone is worried a...
WANDA BETHEA Do not withhold good . . . when it is in your power to do it.
RACHEL HAUCK Doing what's right is seldom easy.
JANICE HARDY Doing whats right is never easy ... You think you're right, but you lose track of what you were tryi...
JANICE HARDY You can't make other people do "right."
All you can do is "right" yourself, and
sometimes even that'...
BILLY C LEE If you boil it down, just because someone else does the wrong thing we are not exempt from doing wha...
E.A. BUCCHIANERI Doing the right thing has power.
LAURA LINNEY The problem with meditating is I generally go to sleep, and that's because I'm doing it wron...
MARGARET ATWOOD You have the responsibility to bite that hand that feeds you if you think they're doing the wrong th...
COURTNEY CAMPBELL The word spreads between prisons. If you have a good thing you can't not give it away.
MARCIA SINKOVITZ Doing the right thing is more important than doing the thing right
PETER F. DRUCKER Heroism' often consists in keeping your head in an emergency and doing the best you can with what yo...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Scarlett nodded, afraid saying the wrong thing might push him away. With Julian it wasn't about prot...
STEPHANIE GARBER The only thing better than singing is more singing.
ELLA FITZGERALD The most exciting thing is not doing it. If you fall in love with someone and never do it, it's much...
ANDY WARHOL Hypothetically, if the only choice you got is to do the wrong thing, then its not really a wrong thi...
VLADIMIR LEM Next to doing the right thing, the most important thing is to let people know you are doing the righ...
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER Gonzales is someone the pro-life community would be very concerned about.
GENEVIEVE WOOD Flying dreams mean that you're doing the right thing with your life.
DOUGLAS COUPLAND It doesn't make sense to have to do the wrong thing in order to do the right thing.
JIM DEMINT Maybe sometimes we don't do the right thing because the wrong thing looks more dangerous, and we don...
PHILIP PULLMAN How often do you think we write our own ending before the story is even finished? How often do we gi...
RACHEL VAN DYKEN How often do you think we write our own ending before the story is even finished? How often do we gi...
RACHEL VAN DYKEN Musicals have clearly gotten more physical. You never saw Ethel Merman doing step aerobics.
BRUCE VILANCH Character is doing the right thing when nobody's looking. There are too many people who think th...
J. C. WATTS I don't want to play earnest. I'd rather play somebody who's kind of sleazy. It's mu...
JACK COLEMAN It was tough to admit to yourself that someone else had more courage than you would in the same situ...
JODI PICOULT been more wrong, more loudly, more often than the two Senators from Massachusetts, Ted Kennedy and J...
ZELL MILLER I also feel that the only thing more gratifying than working with someone who you've worked well...
JONATHAN DEMME There's a difference between doing things right and doing the right thing.
CHRIS FUSSELL Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.
VICTOR HUGO It's not me who's stuck here with you, But its you whos stuck here with me.
NICOLE MEYER It's easier when you have someone in the post, rather than someone driving or doing something fancy.
CASSIE HAGER She buys "mixed salad greens" for seven dollars a bag, triple-washed with who knows what. And to get...
RUDOLPH DELSON I don't think you can have pain and soul-searching doing the right thing for your child.
DIANE ABBOTT The most exciting thing is not doing it. If you fall in love with someone and never do it, it's ...
ANDY WARHOL Doing the right thing for someone else was like a tonic for me; it was like some magic ointment that...
SUSIE BRIGHT I adore women, and the one thing I want to do more than anything is to see a transformation of perso...
ALBER ELBAZ Reason is a whore, the greatest enemy that faith has; it never comes to the aid of spiritual things,...
MARTIN LUTHER You can get more with a nice word and a gun than you can with a nice word.
AL CAPONE Whos love do you cherrish more? Hers or theirs? when you deside that, it's all downhill from there.
JERRY SPINELLI The good thing about being young is that you are not experienced enough to know you cannot possibly ...
SOURCE UNKNOWN You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
AL CAPONE It felt like the wrong thing to do, standing at the wrong door in the wrong place. We did it anyway....
LEMONY SNICKET A good cookout ought to last at least six hours; if you haven't eaten and gotten full and gotten...
ADAM MANSBACH I pore over every word on the cereal box at breakfast, often more than once. You can ask me anything...
CHRIS VAN ALLSBURG To extend compassion to a so-called villain, to forgive those who have wronged you, and to find comm...
VIRONIKA TUGALEVA Beware of the half truth. You may have gotten hold of the wrong half.
SOURCE UNKNOWN Beware of the half truth. You may have gotten hold of the wrong half.
UNKNOWN I have a dream, I have a vision, I have a mission, I have to do something, I will do this at this ti...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN You must never feel badly about making mistakes ... as long as you take the trouble to learn from th...
NORTON JUSTER When you want to share something with another person more than anything, it is one of the most diffi...
ASHLY LORENZANA Obviously, there's more to aesthetic appearance than just race, but that is going to be the firs...
SAM YAGAN But because they didn't see each other very often, their relationship had more ups and downs than ei...
NICHOLAS SPARKS That's life for you," said MacDunn. "Someone always waiting for someone who never comes home. Always...
RAY BRADBURY The numerous choices you have around yourself are often superficial; they don’t matter.
VISHAL OSTWAL It's a discomfiting thing to have the person you love more than anything in the world toss a knife a...
CECILY WHITE You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can
get with just a kind word.
WILLIE SUTTON You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can get with just a kind word.
WILLIE SUTTON There are few people who are more often in the wrong than those who cannot endure to be so.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD There are few people who are more often in the wrong than those who cannot endure to be so.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Typically, the more often you're right, the less often someone will listen to you. And the more you ...
ALAN ROBERT NEAL I've gotten away with a lot in my life. The older you get the more you realize you're not ge...
JON HAMM Wouldn't it be better to die doing something interesting than to drop dead in an office and the last...
BARBARA HILLARY The hardest thing for a chef is to become comfortable with what you do. Not to be too neurotic and w...
DANIEL BOULUD The one thing women love more than money is power.
D. L. HUGHLEY You are a role model to people. You gotta make sure you're doing the right thing.
STIPE MIOCIC Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it ...
OPRAH WINFREY Alternative medicine plays into this exaggerated notion that you can prevent disease simply by doing...
MARCIA ANGELL It's more useful to have someone fear you than respect you.
J. CORNELL MICHEL So I have been careful about where I go and who I hang out with because if you tell someone the wron...
FRANCES BEAN COBAIN I'm mainly trying to get the word out to people, ... Look in your pantries and linen closets. Go to ...
GEORGE HAYES So far, the biggest surprise is how effective a job the government is doing. The case is stronger th...
GERALD TREECE Markets are frequently ahead of, and often out of sync with, the economy.
BARRY RITHOLTZ Just remember there is someone out there
that is more than happy with less than what
you have.
GUNDO MULAUDZI Maybe that would be a good thing to do.
He wasn't entirely sure, and that bothered him m...
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LAURENCE GONZALES What does brace mean, anyway? Brace. Such an odd word. It comes from the Latin brachium, meaning arm...
LAURENCE GONZALES Well, where am I really? I'm 200 feet off the ground in a manmade maze.
LAURENCE GONZALES The plan, a memory of the future, tries on reality to see if it fits.
LAURENCE GONZALES Bureaucracies force us to practice nonsense. And if you rehearse nonsense, you may one day find your...
LAURENCE GONZALES don't see what's going on.
LAURENCE GONZALES They think, 'If something bad happens, it doesn't matter whose fault it is, I'm going to take care o...
LAURENCE GONZALES We're all born with the survival instinct. But I think the true survivors, who get out of really bad...
LAURENCE GONZALES I'm just glad Open tennis is here. It's great for the game. That's more important.
PANCHO GONZALES As you might imagine, he's got many friends that he'll see as he travels . . . and they'll suggest t...
ALBERTO GONZALES This may be the most important thing a president does.
ALBERTO GONZALES We take each individual, each case, case by case,
ALBERTO GONZALES we are bringing this prosecution at this time because it is the appropriate thing to do.
ALBERTO GONZALES There has been significant litigation with respect to Mr. Padilla, and he has had access to counsel,...
ALBERTO GONZALES The great champions were always vicious competitors. You never lose respect for a man who is a vicio...
PANCHO GONZALES I would encourage you all to focus on what is positive in terms of what is going on positively in th...
ALBERTO GONZALES Obviously we would have preferred the escape not to have occurred,
ALBERTO GONZALES Don't Get Caught, Ya Big Dummies!
ALBERTO GONZALES I want to be clear. No company is too big to be prosecuted, ... We have zero tolerance for corporate...
ALBERTO GONZALES Ever since we've had electronic communications, and particularly during a time of war, president...
ALBERTO GONZALES I will be the first to admit I am not perfect and I make mistakes.
ALBERTO GONZALES And I understand my sisters when they say every woman has a story that's been told a maxim of one so...
MARK GONZALES I’ve loved you probably from the first moment that I met you and I will love you until my last bre...
THEA GONZALES There are, for example, exemptions in FOIA in which the government can withhold certain kinds of inf...
ALBERTO GONZALES It's not that we don't have the funds to improve our education system, we just give higher priority ...
MARCUS GONZALES I have fully cooperated with the investigation and before the grand jury, and I'm quite confiden...
ALBERTO GONZALES She got up several times, crying with her head in her hands, but not loud outbursts.
MICHELLE GONZALES A relationship is only as open as it's most closed partner
MARCUS GONZALES Artists and geniuses tend to be the loneliest of us all
MARCUS GONZALES Terrorist attacks ... normally come in cycles, and it's unfortunate that we are in that cycle again,...
NORBERTO GONZALES You may not find it normal, but as long as we're all born human we should be entitled to the same ri...
MARCUS GONZALES For me, it's (art) all about conveying my thoughts... and I'm not done saying what's on my mind.
MARCUS GONZALES What's more beautiful, inspiring, and significant than knowing just how much of the universe is with...
MARCUS GONZALES Want to know what some molecules do when you give them 4 billion years to evolve?.. they sit there a...
MARCUS GONZALES We all share a piece of the universe within us.
MARCUS GONZALES 1/1,000,000,000 Doesn't sound like a big number to most... but to me.... That's the universe.
MARCUS GONZALES When societies don't want to think critically, that is a dangerous recipe for destruction and decay.
MARCUS GONZALES I'm brown in color, race doesn't actually exist. (laughs) Silly hundred year old concepts.
MARCUS GONZALES In order to win the war on terrorism, we have to win the war of information. Information is so very,...
ALBERTO GONZALES Jim, I'm not aware of any formal requests from the Senate Judiciary Committee for these kinds of...
ALBERTO GONZALES I started coming to UTEP games in 1965 and became a season-ticket holder in 1970.
AL GONZALES As you might imagine, he's got many friends that he'll see as he travels ... and they'll suggest tha...
AL GONZALES This may be the most important thing a president does. We pay a lot of attention.
AL GONZALES In our view, if the state of emergency is short-lived, then it should not have a measurable impact o...
JOJO GONZALES Although I don't like the phrase YOLO, I actually live like that and understand its sentiment. I liv...
MARCUS GONZALES I do hold beliefs. I believe in love, justice, and equality and I fight for them. Coincidentally, it...
MARCUS GONZALES I can't support pride for something I can't help... Never really liked that idea.
MARCUS GONZALES Science is seen as something that's "neat" when your young but disregarded when you're older. I find...
MARCUS GONZALES "Knowledge and intelligence are mutually exclusive. They tend to correlate at times, but just bec...
MARCUS GONZALES Success requires a mindset and vision in order to achieve it. Once you have that vision, you'll real...
MARCUS GONZALES It really hadn't hit him yet how sick his dad was. He's had a number of strokes and he always ended ...
DAVID GONZALES We believe very strongly in this case. ... I'll have to sit down with our team of litigators and hea...
ALBERTO GONZALES I'm primarily worried about what does the president think,
ALBERTO GONZALES I think what [Snoop] did is just so shallow. He came here just so that he could take away from us wh...
SANDY GONZALES We're...looking very closely at the issue of fraudulent charities. We're looking at price gouging. I...
ALBERTO GONZALES We have to be successful in this endeavor because we -- if we're not successful it makes our job, in...
ALBERTO GONZALES So if you're in another state, what you do is surrender your AAA membership card in lieu of payment....
PAUL GONZALES Those who seek that third option, who step above prejudice, who excite others to challenge the bound...
MARCUS GONZALES I put the sexy in dyslexia.
MARIAH GONZALES He's making big plays for us and he doesn't really know what he's doing yet. Once he realizes what h...
BILLY GONZALES It's the ultimate toy box.
TOM GONZALES Live with Fulfillment, Serve with Passion so in this Lifetime you will have the ablility to Die with...
RANDY GONZALES These are the worst imaginable forms of child pornography.
ALBERTO GONZALES I get a noble feeling knowing I come from the stars. The atoms in my body have traveled the universe...
MARCUS GONZALES Things are only as good or as bad as you make them seem.
MONICA GONZALES You do the best you can, looking at precedent, in trying to anticipate where the Supreme Court is go...
ALBERTO GONZALES We respect the role of the Senate. We respect the authority of the Senate to look at the qualificati...
ALBERTO GONZALES I want to be clear. No company is too big to be prosecuted. We have zero tolerance for corporate fra...
ALBERTO GONZALES We started the season with a little setback because we had to have two seniors move to the setter po...
VICTORIA GONZALES Some in this country mistakenly believed it could not happen here, ... Today we have chilling eviden...
ALBERTO GONZALES Had these four defendants succeeded in their alleged plots, their attacks would have taken an untold...
ALBERTO GONZALES As the court noted today, the authority to detain enemy combatants like Jose Padilla plays an import...
ALBERTO GONZALES I'm looking forward to some strong competition at the state tournament.
ALBERTO GONZALES These included violent offenders, drug dealers and gang members. This is an important step in ensuri...
ALBERTO GONZALES I disagree we waited too long to focus on this issue,
ALBERTO GONZALES Judge Roberts ... will seek to assure the American people that he will be fair and open-minded, that...
ALBERTO GONZALES It is unclear whether the Taliban militia ever fully controlled most of the territory of Afghanistan...
ALBERTO GONZALES [Asked in an interview on FOX News Channel's] Fox & Friends ... I don't think you should be disquali...
ALBERTO GONZALES The indictment alleges that Padilla traveled overseas to train as a terrorist with the intention of ...
ALBERTO GONZALES Clearly, there are privilege issues that have to be considered. As a general matter, we would not be...
ALBERTO GONZALES We were creating chances which was great, but we just couldn't get any shots to go in.
DONATO GONZALES That was a surprise. She's [Richmond is] a talented player, and give her a little bit of space, and ...
DONATO GONZALES It was a great win for us. We had four players out so it was a great effort by the girls out there, ...
DONATO GONZALES I didn't even call my boss. I just came out here because I think this kind of movement is important ...
CARLOS GONZALES With the Hispanic culture, it seems like the first thing you do when you get up on Saturday is turn ...
CARLOS GONZALES We do our promotions and we have everyone from the small child in the house to the grandmother.
CARLOS GONZALES One must simply take the days of their lives as they happen. If you spend time worrying over what is...
R.J. GONZALES This operation was an enormous success. The capture of Losey and the hundreds of others arrested acr...
DAVID GONZALES Colors have to flow for visual harmony. Part of the deal to achieve harmony is to use it more than o...
DAVID GONZALES When language (in the agreement) requires local labor, we want to make sure our guys have the opport...
DAVID GONZALES That's not how I define free market. I don't see how the governor giving (businesses) money is neces...
DAVID GONZALES I'm very free-market for being a Democrat. I definitely think the market will take care of itself.
DAVID GONZALES We're all pretty close friends, a tight little bunch. If we had to go up there, we wouldn't mind. We...
DAVID GONZALES Lorenzo thought of his dad as a superhero type. Unstoppable.
DAVID GONZALES We were informed that up to 10 Indonesians may have crossed the border and are now in the country, ....
NORBERTO GONZALES I really enjoyed my time in state government. I thought we made a difference. I liked being a part o...
ALBERTO GONZALES Michael Chertoff and the Department of Homeland Security, they have the primary responsibility of en...
ALBERTO GONZALES The Department of Justice is a member of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States.
ALBERTO GONZALES I'm, you know, having begun my public service in state government. I very much respect the autho...
ALBERTO GONZALES Our hearts and prayers go out to the people in London and in Egypt. We're very concerned about i...
ALBERTO GONZALES Well, first of all, let me say that - let me remind your viewers that I am recused from this investi...
ALBERTO GONZALES In this job, you're going to make decisions. You'll say things that some people are going to...
ALBERTO GONZALES I feel very confident that that information should be sufficient for the members of the Senate to ma...
ALBERTO GONZALES Well, there is an attorney-client privilege here that needs to be respected, and it's a privileg...
ALBERTO GONZALES But the Congress has made the determination that certain kinds of information can be protected even ...
ALBERTO GONZALES I think what we ought to be focusing on is that we are on path for the release of 75,000 pages of do...
ALBERTO GONZALES At the end of the day, you realize that this is important stuff, but it isn't as important as ho...
ALBERTO GONZALES This is a very highly charged investigation. People are very interested in this, and we've got a...
ALBERTO GONZALES I respect very much the role of the media in our society; I think they can be very, very helpful. Th...
ALBERTO GONZALES I'll leave it to others to try to determine whether or not that was unfair or not. I'm not t...
ALBERTO GONZALES I guess I would use my son's word: cool. It was cool to work in the White House.
ALBERTO GONZALES We're talking about the lawyers for the United States of America. And I think it's very, ver...
ALBERTO GONZALES Some people have compared him walking on the court to Muhammad Ali getting into the ring. He was one...
GREG GONZALES He was the best player in tennis for more than 10 years, and a lot of people don't realize that beca...
GREG GONZALES He walked here during the Mexican revolution. His dad walked something like 1,300 miles to get here ...
GREG GONZALES The town doesn't exist anymore.
GABRIELA GONZALES It was pretty much demanded.
ERIC GONZALES A flower bloomed already wilting. Beginning its life with an early ending.
R.J. GONZALES We're doing well. I keep real steady work. Right now, I have five builders that I do work for.
ISAAC GONZALES It was pretty easy to cross (illegally) the border back then. You still had to sneak across and hide...
ISAAC GONZALES I wasn't afraid at all. Growing up on a ranch, you're never afraid.
ISAAC GONZALES Growing up on a ranch, we worked hard every day.
ISAAC GONZALES The things I'm most proud of are that I could buy a house and I have my own business. Those are some...
ISAAC GONZALES They both offer a lot to one another. They can help one another. Our greatest challenge will also be...
JAN GONZALES The year will be filled with different projects like this.
JAN GONZALES We're different in that we have independent study, a teacher-supported program for parents who are h...
JAN GONZALES You broke her heart in person—you fix it in person!
R.J. GONZALES The Houston GLBT Political Caucus will offer all of our resources to support these candidates in the...
MARIA GONZALES It's critical that the GLBT community support pro-equality candidates.
MARIA GONZALES Coleman has been an ally of this community for many years in the Texas State Legislature. He now has...
MARIA GONZALES They're part of the community.
MANUEL GONZALES (A resident) was throwing the trash and noticed the dogs were loose. I got here and they were on the...
MANUEL GONZALES You could smell the smell of death in there, ... I personally saw three dead bodies in the ER (emerg...
MANUEL GONZALES She said she'd have knock-down, drag-out fights with her mom because she favored her brother and wou...
MALINDA GONZALES She just looked at me, and I was like, 'Don't worry, I'm not going to rat on you,' ... I didn't thin...
MALINDA GONZALES I would ask her questions over and over again,
MALINDA GONZALES But she loved her dad; she was a daddy's girl. She said her father had changed the life insurance an...
MALINDA GONZALES [Dell's] model of jumping into a market when it is at its fastest pace of expansion and establishing...
JOE GONZALES You probably don't want to hear that, right ladies? In Mexico, men don't want to be challenged.
JOE GONZALES I think it's an excellent fit for that area. It allows startups to move in and establish a business ...
JOE GONZALES Any patient could potentially develop gestational diabetes because during pregnancy the placenta mak...
JOSE GONZALES I love entertaining Korean people with traditional songs from Ecuador . It has been an exceptional, ...
JOSE GONZALES The pelvis is not designed to let a 12-pound baby pass through it,
JOSE GONZALES We don't like to see large babies; we want babies to be normal size.
JOSE GONZALES Having a very big baby is not good,
JOSE GONZALES Within three to four weeks, refineries completing their transition should be at full production, and...
PAUL GONZALES Both of the games that we played against them were real good and luckily we got them at home. We're ...
MATT GONZALES We talked about it all week in practice that we killed this team last time and wanted to go in like ...
MATT GONZALES To be honest, it was frustrating. It's hard. It's really hard for an athlete.
MATT GONZALES Our neighborhood needed a coffee shop.
ROSEMARY GONZALES I think right now it is a serious race and it's a competitive race, but it is somewhat on hold becau...
NATHAN GONZALES Justice must serve offenders and victims as well as the economy and the general public,
ALBERTO GONZALES There are two main jobs in acting - the first one is to be a good actor, and the second one is to co...
LAURENCE FOX The Second Amendment does protect the right to people to possess weapons for self-defense in the hom...
LAURENCE TRIBE As a child growing up in San Francisco in the 1950s, I sometimes met insults when I ventured outside...
LAURENCE YEP There are a lot of things that fit on a bumper sticker in terms of either liberty or equality or pro...
LAURENCE TRIBE The world does not pay for what a person knows, but it pays for what a person does with what he know...
LAURENCE LEE The desire of knowledge, like the thirst for riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.
LAURENCE STERNE There is nothing so awkward as courting a woman whilst she is making sausages.
LAURENCE STERNE When men grow virtuous in their old age they are merely making a
sacrifice to God of the devil's le...
LAURENCE STERNE Let to-morrow take care of to-morrow,
Leave things of the future to fate;
What's the use to an...
LAURENCE STERNE These things by reason of our friendship I have not hesitated glo
to communicate.
LAURENCE STERNE It is the duty of a good shepherd to shear, not to skin his
sheep.
LAURENCE STERNE He found a city of bricks, he left one of marble.
LAURENCE STERNE The most accomplished way of using books is to serve them as some people do lords; learn their title...
LAURENCE STERNE Most of the fiction on the California Gold Rush makes it sound like one grand, boyish adventure. How...
LAURENCE YEP They shall not grow old, as we that are left grow old;
Age shall not weary them, nor the years con...
LAURENCE BINYON Love is active, not passive. It is our love for one another, for Mother Earth, for our fellow creatu...
LAURENCE OVERMIRE Look into the world
LAURENCE STERNE Two more years were to go by before I knew anything about William Blake. Many years later, when his ...
LAURENCE HOUSMAN The world does not pay for what a person knows. But it pays for what a person does with what he know...
LAURENCE LEE Respect for ourselves guides our morals; respect for others guides our manners
LAURENCE STERNE I wish either my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they were in duty both equally boun...
LAURENCE STERNE Pain and pleasure, like light and darkness, succeed each other.
LAURENCE STERNE We lose the right of complaining sometimes, by denying something, but this often triples its force.
LAURENCE STERNE For every ten jokes you acquire a hundred enemies.
LAURENCE STERNE 'Tis no extravagant arithmetic to say, that for every ten jokes, thou hast got an hundred enemies; a...
LAURENCE STERNE I am persuaded that every time a man smiles, but much more so when he laughs, it adds something to t...
LAURENCE STERNE I've played a lot of bad guys, 'cause that was the only work I could get. People saw my face and wen...
LAURENCE FISHBURNE First, whenever a man talks loudly against religion, always suspect that it is not his reason, but h...
LAURENCE STERNE When ever a person talks loudly against religion, always suspect that it is not their reason, but th...
LAURENCE STERNE Positiveness is an absurd foible. If you are in the right, it lessens your triumph; if in the wrong,...
LAURENCE STERNE There are worse occupations in this world than feeling a woman's pulse.
LAURENCE STERNE People who overly take care of their health are like misers. They hoard up a treasure which they nev...
LAURENCE STERNE If you're not sure where you're going, you'll probably end up somewhere else.
PETER LAURENCE Only the brave know how to forgive; it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature...
LAURENCE STERNE Men tire themselves in pursuit of rest.
LAURENCE STERNE So long as a man rides his Hobby-Horse peaceably and quietly along the King's highway, and neither c...
LAURENCE STERNE A large volume of adventures may be grasped within this little span of life, by him who interests hi...
LAURENCE STERNE Courtship consists in a number of quiet attentions, not so pointed as to alarm, nor so vague as not ...
LAURENCE STERNE Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners.
LAURENCE STERNE Our passion and principals are constantly in a frenzy, but begin to shift and waver, as we return to...
LAURENCE STERNE The difference between a helping hand and an outstretched palm is a twist of the wrist.
LAURENCE LEAMER If nature had arranged that husbands and wives should have children alternatively, there would never...
LAURENCE HOUSMAN 'Tis known by the name of perseverance in a good cause -- and of obstinacy in a bad one.
LAURENCE STERNE Lessons of wisdom have the most power over us when they capture the heart through the groundwork of ...
LAURENCE STERNE The history of a soldier's wound beguiles the pain of it.
LAURENCE STERNE What a large volume of adventures may be grasped within the span of his little life by him who inter...
LAURENCE STERNE The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.
LAURENCE STERNE The office of drama is to exercise, possibly to exhaust, human emotions. The purpose of comedy is to...
LAURENCE OLIVIER