Reproof Def Quotes & Sayings

It's the only bad thing about animals," she told Cleon. "Most don't live as long as we do." "I know, sweet," Cleon said, kissing first one of her eyelids, then the other. "But think how bleak life would be without them. — Tamora Pierce

You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything — Gustave Flaubert

Virtue is the fragrance of the flowers which the tree of life puts forth. Educated people must be identified in society by their strict adherence to virtue, not by more skilled methods of escaping the consequences of vice. — Sathya Sai Baba

I was worried about losing until I looked down the floor and saw Dale Brown. Then I knew we had a chance. — Bobby Knight

Frightened, I jump up from the bank, the struggle begins anew. Bitterness has returned. I am not Pan in the reed, I am merely a human being and want to climb a few steps, but really climb them ... — Paul Klee

A drawing begins with 1 line; a story begins with 1 word; a dream begins with 1 idea, and they all die with 1 doubt. Believe in yourself. — Giuseppe Bianco

You wanted a good time; "they," meaning the Party, wanted to stop you having it; you broke the rules as best you could. — George Orwell

Some of most valuable gifts come wrapped in the ugliest paper. — Navonne Johns

People are trying to decide whether the man-made disaster is worse than Mother Nature's disaster. — Larry Sabato

But a sneer can be a greater crime than a murder subjectively, for a sneer means "You are beneath contempt, you are sub-human, you are worthless scum, you are not even worth taking the trouble and time to kill", while a murder may mean "You are important and formidable and you are my enemy, and thus I must kill you." That can be a compliment, compared to a sneer. — Peter Kreeft

You never turned around to see the frowns on the jugglers and the clowns when they all did tricks for you. — Bob Dylan

I leaned back in my chair, my fingers laced behind my head, and wondered at the complexities and contradictions that must have existed in the earth's original clay when God first scooped it up in His palms. — James Lee Burke

I could never delete my own history, and I would always know exactly where I was and where I had been and I would never wake up not being who I was and it didn't matter how much or how little I thought I understood the mess of myself, because I would never, no matter what I did, be missing to myself and that was what I had wanted all this time, to go fully missing, but I would never be able to go fully missing - nobody is missing like that, no one has ever had that luxury and no one ever will. — Catherine Lacey

The usual terminology of political language is stupid. What is 'left' and what is 'right'? Why should Hitler be 'right' and Stalin, his temporary friend, be 'left'? Who is 'reactionary' and who is 'progressive'? Reaction against an unwise policy is not to be condemned. And progress towards chaos is not to be commended. — Ludwig Von Mises