Jane Addams Quotes

The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself.

Jane Addams

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• Today, more than ever, citizens demand with good reason that moral and ethical principles be upheld and that exemplariness preside over our public life. And the king, as the head of state, must not only be an example but also a servant to that just and legitimate demand of the citizens.

  

  Felipe VI of Spain
  • Life
  • Good
  • Today

• Talking about dreams is like talking about movies, since the cinema uses the language of dreams; years can pass in a second, and you can hop from one place to another. It's a language made of image. And in the real cinema, every object and every light means something, as in a dream.

  

  Federico Fellini
  • Real
  • Dream
  • Light

• We live a happy life, and we don't take anything too seriously.

  

  Zoe Foster Blake
  • Life
  • Live
  • Happy

• I know I'm not a conventional beauty. You can read a lot of painful things on the Internet, which criticise you aesthetically - but as far as I'm concerned, that's not what an actress is.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Know
  • Beauty
  • Internet

• There's room for role models who make mistakes.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Mistakes
  • Room
  • Role Models

• All of the charities we're involved with have touched me in one way or another on a personal level. There are about eight or nine charities that I support.

  

  Ferguson Jenkins
  • Way
  • Support
  • Personal

• When women criticized men, I called it 'insight'... When men criticized women, I called it 'sexism' and 'backlash.'

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Women
  • Sexism

• I'm looking forward to the day when America will mature to the point that we are a color-blind society. I'm not so sure that in politics that will ever be reality, because politics has a way of separating us based on skin color.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • America
  • Society
  • Reality

• I'm one of those actors who likes to do it wrong nine ways before I come to the tenth way, which is the way I think it should be.

  

  Wayne Rogers
  • Think
  • Way
  • Wrong

• The analysis of the thing is not the thing itself.

  

  Aaron Allston
  • Thing
  • Analysis
  • Itself

• To have the regard of one's peers is immensely moving.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Moving
  • Regard
  • Peers

• We launched DirecTV Now. Our 5G evolution plans and improved spectrum position are paving the way for the next generation of super-fast mobile and fixed networks.

  

  Randall L. Stephenson
  • Generation
  • Evolution
  • Plans

• According to my grandmother, I started singing as soon as I began talking. I always wanted to be an entertainer. I knew that from the start.

  

  Vesta Williams
  • Singing
  • Start
  • Grandmother

• When I think of a merry, happy, free young girl - and look at the ailing, aching state a young wife generally is doomed to - which you can't deny is the penalty of marriage.

  

  Queen Victoria
  • Happy
  • Free
  • Girl

• Growing new limbs, copying internal organs like a Xerox machine, exponential increases in computing power, better eyes and ears - I could read stories like this endlessly.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • Power
  • Growing
  • Eyes

• I have no message.

  

  Zinedine Zidane
  • Message

• Many people spend more time in planning the wedding than they do in planning the marriage.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • People
  • Time
  • Marriage

• I'm okay in my skin, you know... I'm okay with who I am.

  

  Dana Plato
  • Skin
  • Okay

• Among the weeds choking out growth and good government are the hundreds of boards, commissions, and advisory committees that have sprouted over the years. They devour time, money, and energy far beyond any real contribution they make.

  

  Mitch Daniels
  • Government
  • Growth
  • Contribution

• It's better to make fun of yourself because you've always got someone around to make fun of, and they can't sue you.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Fun
  • Better
  • Yourself

• Apart from painting and gardening, I'm not good at anything.

  

  Claude Monet
  • Good
  • Painting
  • Gardening

• The official toxicity limit for humans is between one and one and half grams of cocaine depending on body weight. I was averaging five grams a day, maybe more. I snorted ten grams in ten minutes once. I guess I had a high tolerance.

  

  George Jung
  • Body
  • Humans
  • Tolerance

• By reading, you learn through others' experiences, generally, a better way to do business, especially in our line of work where the consequences of incompetence are so final for young men.

  

  James Mattis
  • Work
  • Men
  • Business

• The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself.

  

  Jane Addams