Thomas More Quotes
For if you suffer your people to be ill-educated, and their manners to be corrupted from their infancy, and then punish them for those crimes to which their first education disposed them, what else is to be concluded from this, but that you first make thieves and then punish them.Thomas More
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When an accident or a crime happens, there's a period of time before the yellow tape goes up, before the official response becomes formalized. That allows the nightcrawlers to get very close.
Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club -
It isn't easy to accept that suffering can also be beautiful... it's difficult. It's something you can only understand if you dig deeply into yourself.
Rainer Werner Fassbinder -
Buy other authors' books when you go to their events. Even if you aren't going to read it. Even if you are going to give it away. Even if you aren't interested. Not just for the author but for the bookstore. It's karma and just plain good manners.
M. J. Rose -
One must choose in life between boredom and suffering.
Madame de Stael -
With 'Pretty Girls,' I saw the opportunity to talk not just about crime but what crime leaves behind.
Karin Slaughter -
No American should be killed by a drone on American soil without first being charged with a crime, without first being found guilty of a crime by a court.
Rand Paul
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First of all, it does not deter crime, the death penalty.
Patricia Cornwell -
We are created for precisely this sort of suffering. In the end, it is all we are, those limpid tide pools of self-consciousness between crashing waves of pain.
Dan Simmons -
I sing and drink and sleep on floorsAnd try hard not to be annoyedBy all these people worrying about me.So when I'm suffering through some awful drive,You occasionally cross my mind.It's my hidden hope that you are still among them.Well, are you?
Conor Oberst Bright Eyes -
It’s worth living abroad to study up on genteel and delicate manners. The maid smiles continuously; she smiles like a duchess on a stage, while at the same time it is clear from her face that she is exhausted from overwork.
Anton Chekhov -
To write is to give meaning to suffering.
Alejandra Pizarnik -
It is my duty to voice the suffering of men, the never-ending sufferings heaped mountain-high.
Kathe Kollwitz
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I want to be a force for real good. In other words. I know that there are bad forces, forces that bring suffering to others and misery to the world, but I want to be the opposite force. I want to be the force which is truly for good.
John Coltrane -
The principal cause of suffering during humanitarian crises is insufficient respect of applicable rules of international humanitarian law.
Peter Maurer -
Football is not about suffering. It's about enjoyment. Control the ball, be friendly with it, try to attack, try to score goals. Of course defending is part of it, but you can defend in a lot of ways.
Johan Cruyff -
The atheist believes a world marked by so much injustice, innocent suffering, and cynicism of power cannot be the work of a good God.
Pope Benedict XVI -
'I didn’t create poverty. This church didn’t create poverty. Poverty is not an issue, human suffering is not an issue at all, they were there before the creation of mankind.'
Peter Akinola -
There is suffering in life, and there are defeats. No one can avoid them. But it's better to lose some of the battles in the struggles for your dreams than to be defeated without ever knowing what you're fighting for.
Paulo Coelho
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The two of us could form a new kind of union; we could be free together.
Consuelo de Saint-Exupéry -
When I sing a set, people will say, 'I love 'Mayday.' People just love 'Mayday' so much. I love it too.
Cam -
There is no actual need to tighten voter ID rules: there have been extraordinarily few instances of people committing fraud at the polls.
Adam Cohen -
For if you suffer your people to be ill-educated, and their manners to be corrupted from their infancy, and then punish them for those crimes to which their first education disposed them, what else is to be concluded from this, but that you first make thieves and then punish them.
Thomas More