Sons Quotes

Thomas carlyle - a person usually has two reasons for doing...
We do not regret the loss of our friends by reasons of their merit, but because of our needs and for the good opinion that we believed them to have held of us.
La Rochefoucauld
Our heart has its reasons that reason cannot know.
Blaise Pascal
Woody allen - money is better than poverty, if only for...
Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.
Joseph Addison
I have a dream that one day... the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Georg christoph lichtenberg - first there is a time when we believe everything,...
We hate some persons because we do not know them and we will not know them because we hate them.
Charles Caleb Colton
The wit makes fun of other persons the satirist makes fun of the world the humorist makes fun of himself.
James Thurbe
Abortion is advocated only by persons who have themselves been born.
Ronald Reagan
Eventually, there will not be enough prisons if there are not enough good homes.
Neal A. Maxwell
No two persons ever read the same book.
Edmund Wilson
Ideas are like wandering sons. They show up when you least expect them.
Bern Williams
Life cannot find reasons to sustain it, cannot be a source of decent natural regard, unless each of us resolves to breathe such qualities into it.
Frank Herbert, Chenoeh: "Coversations with Leto II".
If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons.
James Thurbe
Malice sucks up the greater part of her own venom, and poisons herself.
Michel de Montaigne
Now we are all sons of bitches.
Robert J. Oppenheimer, After viewing 1st full test of manhattan project at trinity, NM. Invention and Technology magazine, 2001
God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons we could not learn in any other way. The way we learn those lessons is not to deny the feelings but to find the meanings underlying them.
Stanley Lindquist
There are pauses amidst study, and even pauses of seeming idleness, in which a process goes on which may be likened to the digestion of food. In those seasons of repose, the powers are gathering their strength for new efforts; as land which lies fallow recovers itself for tillage.
J. W. Alexande
Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is in prison.
Henry David Thoreau
Whenever you commend, add your reasons for doing so; it is this which distinguishes the approbation of a man of sense from the flattery of sycophants and admiration of fools.
Sir Richard Steele
The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subltly and feel nobly.
Aldous Huxley
All persons, living or dead, are purely coincidental, and should not be construed.
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called sons of God.
Bible, Jesus in Matthew 5: 9
Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.
Eustace Budgell
Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are to be found only in studying the exemplary.
Warren Bennis
Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.
Walter Stegne
The very concept of history implies the scholar and the reader. Without a generation of civilized people to study history, to preserve its records, to absorb its lessons and relate them to its own problems, history, too, would lose its meaning.
George Frost Kennan
We are not the same persons this year as last nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.
Jacques Maritain
Some persons are likeable in spite of their unswerving integrity.
Donald Robert Perry Marquis
Women are at last becoming persons first and wives second, and that is as it should be.
May Sarton
Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is in an organized conspiracy to opress, rob, and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.
Frederick Douglass, Speech, April 1886
It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!
Friedrich Nietzsche
Associate with well - Mannered persons and your manners will improve. Run around with decent folk and your own decent instincts will be strengthened.
Stanley Walke
A man generally has two reasons for doing a thing.
John Pierpoint Morgan
We want far better reasons for having children than not knowing how to prevent them.
Dora Russell
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawer.
Robert Frost
Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can.
Willis Whitney
The difference of race is one of the reasons why I fear war may always exist because race implies difference, difference implies superiority, and superiority leads to predominance.
Benjamin Disraeli