Censures Quotes

#1. What is a miracle?
'Tis a reproach, 'Tis an implicit satire on mankind; And while it satisfies, it censures too.

Edward Young

#2. Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice.

Plato

#3. A solid and substantial greatness of soul looks down with neglect on the censures and applauses of the multitude.

Joseph Addison

#4. That Wisedome is acquired, not by reading of Books, but of Men. Consequently whereunto, those persons, that for the most part can give no other proof of being wise, take great delight to shew what they think they have read in men, by uncharitable censures of one another behind their backs.

Thomas Hobbes

#5. A dozen direct censures are easier to bear than one morganatic compliment.

Mark Twain

#6. Public opinion takes no offense at the endeavors of farmers, workers, clerks, teachers, doctors, ministers, and people from many other callings to earn as much as they can. But it censures the capitalists and entrepreneurs for their greed.

Ludwig Von Mises

#7. Horace appears in good humor while he censures, and therefore his censure has the more weight, as supposed to proceed from judgment and not from passion.

Edward Young

#8. It was much less dangerous for the disciples of Christ to neglect the observance of the moral duties, than to despise the censures and authority of their bishops.

Edward Gibbon

#9. We all cry out that the world is corrupt,
and I fear too justly,
but we never reflect, what we have to thank for it, and that itis our open countenance of vice, which gives the lye to our private censures of it, which is its chief protection and encouragement.

Laurence Sterne

#10. Be not diverted from your duty by any idle reflections the silly world may make upon you, for their censures are not in your power and should not be at all your concerns.

Epictetus

#11. An original sentence, a step forward, is worth more than all the censures.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#12. To arrive at perfection, a man should have very sincere friends or inveterate enemies; because he would be made sensible of his good or ill conduct, either by the censures of the one or the admonitions of the other.

Diogenes

#13. Trust him little who praise all, him less who censures all and him least who is indifferent about all.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

#14. Praise becomes compulsory when we experience true intimacy [with God].

Beth Moore

#15. Zoos are full, prisons are overflowing. Ah, my. How the world still dearly loves a cage.

Colin Higgins

#16. After all, Bill Clinton is the guy that signed welfare reform.

Rush Limbaugh

#17. Mere good governance is not enough; it has to be pro-people and pro-active. Good governance is putting people at the center of development process.

Narendra Modi

#18. I'd assume love was safe, like ordering the same thing at a restaurant every single time. I didn't realize that it could be a greasy roadside sandwich and vomiting, followed by a conversation that made time slow down and my heart speed up.

Alicia Thompson

#19. What matters is that someone - that you - know me that well. When a person can see into your soul, it's hard. It forces you to be open. Vulnerable. It's much easier being with someone who's just more of a casual friend.

Richelle Mead

#20. A poem begins as a lump in the throat? Gamache asked Ruth. The elderly woman held his eyes

Louise Penny

#21. When in Boston, I shall be able to take you out to dinner, if not to bed. I should greatly prefer the latter, but I must accept my lot.

L.A. Meyer

#22. There is no employment in the world so laborious as that of making to one's self a great name; life ends before one has scarcely made the first rough draught of his work.

Jean De La Bruyere

#23. Out of the sad sack of sad shit that was my life, I made a wordhouse.

Lidia Yuknavitch

#24. Jesus is the answer to the longing of every human heart. The love of his heart is the only love capable of filling our human longing - because it is human, yet infinite, and because it is also divine. Not only does each individual need and desire this love, but the world, taken as a whole, needs it.

James Kubicki

#25. While I am here I would like to experience as many of the beauties of the world as possible and help others to do the same.

Frederick Lenz

#26. I'm not perfect; I've never professed to be, and I don't want to be. How much fun is that?

Michael Strahan

#27. I think it's easier to play when you do have a balanced home. I think if I did have alcoholism in my personal life, or my mother, or somebody close to me, it might have been much more uncomfortable to get in there.

Angelina Jolie