Destutt Tracy Quotes & Sayings

conscience swelled nightly — Arthur Conan Doyle

We have lost sight of nature's role in the whole process of maturation and growing up. Parents and nature are a team. And nature can't go on without the parental role of being able to foster individuality and viability unless the attachment needs are fully met. — Gordon Neufeld

In the men I love heroes, in the work I love heroism — Amit Kalantri

Love is waiting for you, but you might need to wait until tomorrow. — Marlene Thornton

An exchange is a transaction in which the two contracting parties both gain. Whenever I make an exchange freely, and without constraint, it is because I desire the thing I receive more than that I give; and, on the contrary, he with whom I bargain desires what I offer more than that which he renders me. When I give my labour for wages it is because I esteem the wages more than what I should have been able to produce by labouring for myself; and he who pays me prizes more the services I render him than what he gives me in return. — Antoine Destutt De Tracy

Stop gawking and close your mouth before I decide to use it as a trash receptacle. — Heidi Schulz

Government, on their part, are much disposed to favor the establishment of these large companies, and to give them privileges to the detriment of their rivals, and of the public, with the expectation of receiving from them loans, either gratuitous or at a low rate which these never refuse. It is thus that the one sells its protection and the other buys it; and this is already a very great evil. — Antoine Destutt De Tracy

Society is purely and solely a continual series of exchanges ... And the greatest eulogy we can give it, for exchange is an admirable transaction, in which two contracting parties always both gain; consequently, society is an uninterrupted succession of advantages, unceasingly renewed for all its members. — Antoine Destutt De Tracy

Of course I make mistakes. I'm human. If I didn't make mistakes, I'd never learn. You can only go forward by making mistakes. — Alexander McQueen

They did interviews with my wife and daughter-they were genuinely in fear of me having a heart attack, working 20 hours a day, eating fast food. — Willie Aames

My advice: Give it to whoever they are for, before whoever they are gets wherever they are going. — Jarod Kintz

The errors of great men are venerable because they are more fruitful than the truths of little men. — Friedrich Nietzsche

This points us to an undeniable theological truth we learn from Genesis 4: humans are murderers, not because we commit murder, but because we are murderers at heart. — Charles R. Swindoll

Are you taking me off to the woods where no one will see when you kill me?" Becky asked. — Kim Law

I feel that I am pregnant by music, and it is the father and mother of my child. — R. Kelly

For in truth great love is born of great knowledge of the thing loved. — Leonardo Da Vinci

Even if you can't be totally mindful at every meal, if you can say a blessing, silently if necessary, or offer up a prayer for someone, something beyond yourself and your food, the prayer helps to transform eating into something that affects not only our hunger at that moment but the greater world. — Mary DeTurris Poust