170 quotes found
“No president likes leaks, but it’s worth noting candidate Trump’s path to power was tread on a road of leaks. He didn’t have a problem with leaks then. It’s not a moral position if you only hold it...”
“People who shout joy from the rooftops are often the saddest of all.”
“It takes a common thug to commit injustice, but it takes an exceptional thug to call it "social justice".”
“I was not a hypocrite, with one real face and several false ones. I had several faces because I was young and didn't know who I was or wanted to be.”
“This is neither the time nor the place, however, to ponder how often the soul, in order to be able to boast of a clean body, has burdened itself with sadness, envy, and impurity.”
“Hazrat Ali, in a saying attributed to him, says: ‘Man is in disguise, covered by his tongue’.”
“Hypocrisy is a tribute that vice pays to virtue.”
“We are all hypocrites. We cannot see ourselves or judge ourselves the way we see and judge others.”
“Such is the imperfect nature of man! such spots are there on the disc of the clearest planet; and eyes like Miss Scatcherd's can only see those minute defects, and are blind to the full brightness ...”
“When you turn your back on hypocrisy and do nothing you don’t change the hearts of others you change yours.”
“The famous atheist Christopher Hitchens once declared that ‘You’re expelled from your mother’s uterus as if shot from a cannon, towards a barn door studded with old nail files and rusty hooks.’ Pre...”
“Anyone who sang the praises of undying love in this day and age belonged to the first rank of hypocrites in Daisuke's estimate.”
“But that is the way of life, and that was but one of the first times, among no few to come, that I was taught a useful lesson about how appearances trump truth, and how villains hide their vices be...”
“Shared grief is just pride with a sad face.”
“We must take the long view—every defeat is a victory in a war of attrition.”
“CHARTERIS [unfolding his arms in terror] No, please. Dont. As a philosopher, it’s my business to tell other people the truth; but it’s not their business to tell it to me. I dont like it: it hurts.”
“God help me, how Tolstoy sweats over drying up people's sources of life, of wild and joyful life, drying them up and making the world fat with the love of God and everyman. ... But the man is old, ...”
“Ashe was typical of that strata of mankind which conducts its human relationships according to a principle of challenge and response. Where there was softness, he would advance; where he found resi...”
“I thought Mr. Millward never would cease telling us that he was no tea-drinker, and that it was highly injurious to keep loading the stomach with slops to the exclusion of more wholesome sustenance...”
“The wolf was sick he vowed a monk to be - But when he got well a wolf once more was he.”
