Conduces Quotes & Sayings

Reticence may be an elderly doctrine to preach, yet from the artistic point of view I am sure it is a sound one. Reticence conduces to effect, blatancy ruins it. — M.R. James

I say that Hitler ought to have the peace prize, because he is removing all the elements of contest and of struggle from Germany. By driving out the Jews and the democratic and Left element, he is driving out everything that conduces to activity. That means peace ... By suppressing Jews ... he was ending struggle in Germany. — Gertrude Stein

Love-struck' means being hit in your heart by the emotion of love. — Zoe Sugg

The cause of justice is the cause of humanity. Its advocates should overflow with universal good will. We should love this cause, for it conduces to the general happiness of mankind. — William Godwin

I'm just a regular mother who's trying to save lives and be the best human being I can be. — Cindy Sheehan

Our country as a whole, no less than the Hastings College of Law, values tolerance, cooperation, learning, and the amicable resolution of conflicts. But we seek to achieve those goals through "[a] confident pluralism that conduces to civil peace and advances democratic consensus-building," not by abridging First Amendment rights. — Samuel Alito

You can't start a fire in the pouring rain. — Tristan Prettyman

Apart from the fact that any hardy exercise conduces much to the training and formation of a soldier, pig-sticking tends to give a man what is called a 'stalker's eye,' but which, par excellence, is the soldier's eye. — Robert Baden-Powell

The detective had a kidnapping, he had a knife and he had blood. He had an insane old man. He was going in. — Darin Gibby

The history of ancient Greece showed that, in a democracy, emotion dominates reason to a greater extent than in any other political system, thus giving freer rein to the passions which sweep a state into war and prevent it getting out - at any point short of the exhaustion and destruction of one or other of the opposing sides. Democracy is a system which puts a brake on preparation for war, aggressive or defensive, but it is not one that conduces to the limitation of warfare or the prospects of a good peace. No political system more easily becomes out of control when passions are aroused. These defects have been multiplied in modern democracies, since their great extension of size and their vast electorate produce a much larger volume of emotional pressure. — B.H. Liddell Hart

The determining factor of my existence is no longer my past. — Sinclair B. Ferguson

Wine refreshes the stomach, sharpens the appetite, blunts care and sadness, and conduces to slumber. — Pliny The Elder

Do what you want, if it is something you did regret the next day, sleep in late. — Wiz Khalifa

Moderate labor of the body conduces to the preservation of health, and cares many initial diseases. — William Harvey

I have no problem with violence, I have no problem playing horrible people. — Mandy Patinkin

The leaf of the camomile, parboiled in water, conduces to calm. And yet I do not worship it. — David Mamet

A plain and temperate way of living conduces to the health of the body and the vigour of the mind, both of which we are apt to destroy by excess and plenty. — Captain Woodes Rogers

Many people ask about Christianity the same [way] they ask about everything else today: "What's in it for me?" In our selfishness, we think of God as we think of everyone else. What can He contribute to us, personally? — Billy Graham

You should tell her how nice
her outfit is because her outfit is her choice whereas her face isn't. — Stephen Chbosky

A stubborn mind conduces as little to wisdom or even to knowledge, as a stubborn temper to happiness — Robert Southey

friends will stand by me in trouble. They will — Laura Ingalls Wilder

It is shameful for man to rest in ignorance of the structure of his own body, especially when the knowledge of it mainly conduces to his welfare, and directs his application of his own powers. — Philipp Melanchthon

If I wasn't a writer, I would probably be a watchmaker. I like putting puzzles together, and that is what a watch is, figuring out how all the gears and everything else works together. I'm patient and good at focusing on a single task. — Karin Slaughter

Monks, one thing, if practiced and made much of, conduces to great thrill, great profit, great security after the toil, to mindfulness and self-possession, to the winning of knowledge and insight, to pleasant living in this very life, to the realization of the fruit of release by knowledge. What is that one thing: It is mindfulness centered on the body. — Gautama Buddha

He grins. "Can I keep you? — Colleen Hoover

We were, literally and figuratively, in the same boat. — Yann Martel

The working class did not rise like the sun at an appointed time. It was present at its own making. — E.P. Thompson

We are all very individual. You have to find out what you can do best, and be self-conscious about that. — Joshua Lederberg

Wisdom consisteth not in knowing many things, nor even in knowing them thoroughly; but in choosing and in following what conduces the most certainly to our lasting happiness and true glory. — Walter Savage Landor