Thomas More Quotes

No living creature is naturally greedy, except from fear of want - or in the case of human beings, from vanity, the notion that you're better than people if you can display more superfluous property than they can.

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• I just didn't make music that you could sing with a big grin, still don't.

  

  Gary Numan
  • Music
  • You
  • Big

• Nothing is more unpleasant than a virtuous person with a mean mind.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • Mind
  • Mean
  • Nothing

• Our competition for American business is no longer in the next county or the next state, it's around the world.

  

  Karl Rove
  • World
  • Business
  • American

• The question of whether or to what extent human activities are causing global warming is not a matter of ideology, let alone of belief. The issue is simply one of risk management.

  

  Malcolm Turnbull
  • Alone
  • Question
  • Risk

• We ended up with some pretty good quality videos for next to nothing. We just thought it would be interesting to put WAV files on a DVD and let people burn CDs if they want. CDs are so expensive. I can't remember the last time I bought a new CD.

  

  Sam Brown
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• We need to ensure that our voice is heard in the process because obviously we do have different views and we can't always accept fait d' accompli positions when they clearly don't reflect the view of our constituents.

  

  Olympia Snowe
  • Different
  • Voice
  • Process

• Before beginning a Hunt, it is wise to ask someone what you are looking for before you begin looking for it.

  

  A. A. Milne
  • Beginning
  • Wise

• He dropped the pretense, and dropped his head, so his brow came to rest against the sun-warmed top of hers. His arms went around her and drew her in, and Karou and Akiva were like two matches struck against each other to flare starlight. With a sigh, she softened, and it was pure homecoming to melt against him and rest.

  

  Laini Taylor
  • She
  • Rest
  • Sun

• Education must lead us from the irresponsible opinion to true responsible judgment. It must lead us from chance and arbitrariness to rational clarity and intellectual order. Therefore, let us guide our students over the road of discipline from materials, through function, to creative work.

  

  Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
  • Work
  • True
  • Education

• May our lives be born from the beauty of darkness, and shine with the possibility of light.

  

  T. Thorn Coyle
  • May
  • Light
  • Shine

• Though perhaps less universally known than such figures as Einstein or Gandhi (who became symbols of our time) Daisetz Suzuki was no less remarkable a man than these. And though his work may not have had such resounding and public effect, he contributed no little to the spiritual and intellectual revolution of our time.

  

  D. T. Suzuki
  • Time
  • Work
  • Men

• Shadow Physicks are fearfully complicated. A. Amblygonite has no idea.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Shadow
  • Complicated
  • No Idea

• Just in case you ever foolishly forget; I'm never not thinking of you

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Thinking
  • Forget
  • Cases

• Where there is no property there is no injustice.

  

  John Locke Nazareth
  • Property
  • Injustice

• No living creature is naturally greedy, except from fear of want - or in the case of human beings, from vanity, the notion that you're better than people if you can display more superfluous property than they can.

  

  Thomas More
  • Humans
  • Creatures
  • Property