Ctnosti Quotes & Sayings

The kind of people I absolutely cannot tolerate are those who never let you forget they are religious. It seems to me that a truly religious person would let his life be example enough, would not let his religion interfere with being a human being, and would not be so insecure as to have to fawn publicly before his gods. — W.P. Kinsella

Even if every colonialist is not mediocre, every colonizer must, in a certain measure, accept the mediocrity of colonial life and the men who thrive on it. It is also clear that every colonizer must adapt himself to his true situation and the human relationships resulting from it. By having chosen to ratify the colonial system, the colonialist has not really overcome the actual difficulties. The colonial situation thrusts economic, political, and affective facts upon every colonizer against which he may rebel, but which he can never abandon. These facts form the very essence of the colonial system, and soon the colonialist realizes his own ambiguity. — Albert Memmi

A conservative is a fellow who thinks a rich man should have a square deal. — Frank Dane

There is a basic truth to shifting your life out of reverse and into a forward gear, and it is this: no matter what your circumstances are or what you have done in the past, God loves you with an everlasting love, and He will make your life count for something wonderful, if you will place your trust in Him. — Charles F. Stanley

Players recognize the sense of humility that comes with the cap and with wearing the cap. — Len Pascoe

Real friends require honesty, openness, and even vulnerability. They also require attention and simple acts of kindness. — Mary Pipher

What makes America great was a government that was founded to be limited to doing one thing. I really believe the whole purpose of America, the aspirational value - why everybody who wants to come to this country wants to come here - was because we respected the dignity of every living person. — Rick Santorum

I can cook about two things. I can boil hot water for the only pasta I can make. — Drew Barrymore

I think it's your duty to overcome what you inherit in life. — Kelsey Grammer

Mathematics rightly viewed possesses not only truth but supreme beauty. — Bertrand Russell

People who are having a love-sex relationship are continuously lying to each other because the very nature of the relationship demands that they do, because you have to make a love object of this person, which means that you editorialize about them. You cut out what you don't want to see, you add this if it isn't there. And so therefore you're building a lie. — Truman Capote

I have often thought that the nature of women was interior to that of men in general, but superior in particular. — Sir Fulke Greville

I did Second City, and Nia Vardalos also did Second City, so I knew her from there. — Rachel Dratch

State and home country, there's a difference — Erich Maria Remarque

What good does it do to tell somebody to live morally so they can die 50 years later and apparently go to Hell? — Donald Miller