Calumnious Quotes & Sayings

Somehow, what's in our hearts, good or bad is eventually translated into words and deeds. — Andy Stanley

I believe that Western civilization, after some disgusting glitches, has become almost civilized. I believe it is our first duty to protect that civilization. I believe it is our second duty to improve it. I believe it is our third duty to extend it if we can. — P. J. O'Rourke

The fact is that comedy is actually too serious to be taken seriously. It may be that comedy touches such deep emotions that people feel better if they can just dismiss it as trivial. Just take a big belly laugh. I have watched people laughing, and for a moment they look-and are-absolutely helpless. Vulnerability. You can be assaulted while you are laughing. — Abe Burrows

Virtue itself scapes not calumnious strokes. — William Shakespeare

The best of American television is thought-provoking, original, brilliant, exciting - from 'The Sopranos' on, whether it's 'The Wire' or 'Breaking Bad' or 'House of Cards,' they're fantastic pieces of art. — Martin Freeman

I choose not to make a graveyard of my body for the rotting corpses of dead animals. — George Bernard Shaw

On the court, I'm not afraid of anything. I try to have confidence and have a belief in myself. — Stephen Curry

Every man hath a general desire of his own happiness; and likewise a variety of particular affections, passions, and appetites to particular external objects. — Joseph Butler

the poet Emerson said that when we have worn out our shoes, the strength of the journey has passed into our body. — Ruta Sepetys

For me, the human face is the most important subject of the cinema. — Ingmar Bergman

The Vampire Test. It's a simple way to know who you should let in and out of your life. If, after hanging out with someone you feel worn out and depleted, that person is a vampire. If, after hanging out with someone you still feel full of energy, that person is not a vampire. Of course, The Vampire Test works on many things in our lives, not just people - you can apply it to jobs, hobbies, places, etc. — Austin Kleon

You get tired of always wondering anew why life has to take the place of youth. — Gary Lutz

The men of the period of corruption are witty and calumnious; they know that there are yet other ways of murdering than by the dagger and ambush
they know also that all that is well said is believed in. — Friedrich Nietzsche

I choose to do unattractive people, because then I can pretend they think they're attractive. — Amy Sedaris

It was strange too that he found an arid pleasure in following up to the end the rigid lines of the doctrines of the church and penetrating into obscure silences only to hear and feel the more deeply his own condemnation. The sentence of saint James which says that he who offends against one commandment becomes guilty of all, had seemed to him first a swollen phrase until he had begun to grope in the darkness of his own state. From the evil seed of lust all other deadly sins had sprung forth: pride in himself and contempt of others, covetousness In using money for the purchase of unlawful pleasures, envy of those whose vices he could not reach to and calumnious murmuring against the pious, gluttonous enjoyment of food, the dull glowering anger amid which he brooded upon his longing, the swamp of spiritual and bodily sloth in which his whole being had sunk. — James Joyce

Better to have trouble with man than trouble with God. — Francine Rivers

The theatre is a spiritual and social X-ray of its time. — Stella Adler