"Some, by admiring other men's virtues, become enemies to their own vices."

-- Bias of Priene

#Men Quotes #Enemy Quotes #Vices Quotes

“Movies have been doing so much of the same thing - in slightly different ways - for so long that few of the possibilities of this great hybrid art have yet been explored.”
“It is never right to injure anyone. It can never be right to make someone worse than he is.”
“All geologic history is full of the beginning and the ends of species-of their first and last days; but it exhibits no genealogies of development.”

Source : Hugh Miller (1857). “The Testimony of the Rocks”, p.220
“All economic activity is dependent upon that environment and its underlying resource base of forests, water, air, soil, and minerals. When the environment is finally forced to file for bankruptcy because its resource base has been polluted, degraded, dissipated, and irretrievably compromised, the economy goes into bankruptcy with it.”

Source : Gaylord Nelson, Susan M. Campbell, Paul A. Wozniak (2002). “Beyond Earth Day: Fulfilling the Promise”, p.18, Univ of Wisconsin Press
“He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too.”
“A page of Addison or of Irving will teach more of style than a whole manual of rules, whilst a story of Poe's will impress upon the mind a more vivid notion of powerful and correct description and narration than will ten dry chapters of a bulky textbook.”
“We have lived through some unforgettable times together, some good, some bad, achieving results that will be hard to equal.”
“Acting doesn't suffice.”

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