Bias of Priene Quotes

Some, by admiring other men's virtues, become enemies to their own vices.

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• We confuse activity with progress, and that's always dangerous, especially in war.

  

  H. R. McMaster
  • War
  • Always
  • Progress

• How many times have you opened a book, read the first few sentences and made a snap decision about whether to buy it? When it's your book that's coming under this casual-but-critical scrutiny, you want the reader to be instantly hooked. The way to accomplish this is to create compelling opening sentences.

  

  Nancy Kress
  • Book
  • Want
  • Decision

• Everything has a purpose or premise. Every second of our life has its own premise, whether or not we are conscious of it at the time. That premise may be as simple as breathing or as complex as a vital emotional decision, but it is always there.

  

  Lajos Egri
  • Life
  • Time
  • May

• We have people working for us full-time because they were forced to retire at 65. I know that I never want to stop working, and I am glad that I can offer positions to others who feel the same way.

  

  Carl Karcher
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• During the 2000 election, the current administration told our military, help is on the way. That is clearly not the case. The administration has failed to request the funds needed for the defense of this Nation. We must give the Army what it needs.

  

  Ike Skelton
  • Help
  • Military
  • Army

• Predicting innovation is something of a self-canceling exercise: the most probable innovations are probably the least innovative.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Exercise
  • Innovation
  • Most

• My story about becoming an actor is a completely non-romantic one. I became an actor because my parents were actors, and it seemed like a very... I knew I was going to act all my life, but I didn't know that I was going to be a professional actor. I thought I was just going to work as an actor every now and then.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Life
  • Work
  • Parents

• I'm not an overly happy person. There are times when I'm happy, and that's usually in my private life.

  

  Pat Burns
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Person

• If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Thinking
  • May
  • Truth

• Chanel lambskin, vintage Vanson I'm on the bike doing wheelies in a mansion

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • Bike
  • Vintage
  • Materialistic

• First you put in, then you get out.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Firsts

• Wild!" Ron said, twiddling the replay knob on the side. "I can make that old bloke down there pick his nose again... and again... and again...

  

  Joanne Rowling

• You watch yourself. One day you're going to pick a hole in the sky and the universe is gonna fall right through. Then we'll all be in a fix

  

  Kami Garcia
  • Fall
  • Universe
  • Sky

• What if life is just a cosmic joke, like spiders in your underwear.

  

  Jimmy Buffett
  • Life
  • Life is
  • Jokes

• Generally we obtain very surely and very speedily what we are not too anxious to obtain.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Anxiety
  • Anxious

• Friend, you cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom. And what one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. The government can't give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody. And when half of the people get the idea they don't have to work because the other half's going to take care of them, and when the other half get the idea it does no good to work because somebody's going to get what I work for. That, dear friend, is about the end of any nation.

  

  Adrian Rogers
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• I'm able to impact kids' lives, I'm able to give back and I will impact so many kids' lives because I feel like that moment taught me that no matter where you are in life, no matter what you may want in life you keep going.

  

  La'el Collins
  • Life
  • May
  • Kids

• If religion commands universal charity, to love our neighbors as ourselves, to forgive and pray for all our enemies without any reserve; it is because all degrees of love are degrees of happiness, that strengthen and support the Divine life of the soul, and are as necessary to its health and happiness, as proper food is necessary to the health and happiness of the body.

  

  William Law
  • Life
  • Soul
  • Religion

• Splatter the brain matter of my enemies, with the same bullet trajectory that murdered John Kennedy.

  

  Canibus
  • Brain
  • Enemies
  • Bullet

• I am a Jew, Israel is a Jewish state. . . . Israel’s case is my case, Israel’s enemies are my enemies, and I do not want to be spared the troubles which Israeli musicians encounter when they represent the Jewish state beyond its borders.

  

  Evgeny Kissin
  • Enemies
  • Musicians
  • Israel

• Next time you open the paper, and you see an intellectual property decision, a telecoms decision, it's not about something small and technical. It is about the future of the freedom to be as social beings with each other, and the way information, knowledge and culture will be produced.

  

  Yochai Benkler
  • Time
  • Future
  • Culture

• Some, by admiring other men's virtues, become enemies to their own vices.

  

  Bias of Priene
  • Enemies
  • Vices
  • Virutes