Faceaumur Quotes & Sayings

A noble and Godlike character is not a thing of favour or chance, but is the natural result of continued effort in right thinking, the effect of long-cherished association with Godlike thoughts. An ignoble and bestial character, by the same process, is the result of the continued harbouring of grovelling thoughts. Man is made or unmade by himself; in the armoury of thought he forges the weapons by which he destroys himself; he also fashions the tools with which he builds for himself heavenly mansions of joy and strength and peace. By the right choice and true application of thought, man ascends to the Divine Perfection; by the abuse and wrong application of thought, he descends below the level of the beast. Between these two extremes are all the grades of character, and man is their maker and master. — James Allen

I just don't think it's good for us to be run out of town. (Refusing to cancel Secretary of State visit to Moscow) — Ronald Reagan

For the next three days, I'd piece her together. After I tore her completely apart. — Lucian Bane

Who can wonder at the attractiveness ... of the bar, for our ambitious young men, when the highest bribes of society are at the feet of the successful orator? — Marsilio Ficino

Sin is a spiritual illness; thus sinners are in need of salvation. — Thomas Aquinas

If you are not passionately devoted to an idea, you can make very pleasant pictures but they won't make you cry. — Ruth Bernhard

If I really seem vain, it is that I am only vain in my ways - not in my heart. The worst women are those vain in their hearts, and not in their ways. — Thomas Hardy

I walked over to her, not so much because I felt like I needed to be close to say what I needed to say, but because I hated to be on the other side of the room when I could be near her. It — Vi Keeland

I endeavor that all orchestras I conduct sound Central European. — Zubin Mehta

No matter what happens on the football field it doesn't change the kind of person I am. — Kurt Warner

When I took on the drug companies and the insurance companies for universal health care coverage, they went after me with a vengeance. — Hillary Clinton

It was sort of just a family sport. My mom and dad were pretty keen golfers when I was young and so were my grandparents, and I just sort of tagged along with them. — Karrie Webb

The entire banking movement, at all crucial stages, was centralized in the hands of a few men who for years were linked, ideologically and personally, with one another. — Gabriel Kolko

I think it's wrong that only one percent of the people should own ninety percent of the country. — Sally Wentworth

The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time. — Edmund Burke