Commends Quotes

#1. Those who try to make room for sex as mere casual enjoyment pay the penalty: they become shallow. At any rate the talk that reflects and commends this attitude is always shallow. They dishonour their own bodies; holding cheap what is naturally connected with the origination of human life.

G. E. M. Anscombe

#2. Nothing commends a radical change to an Englishman more than the belief that it is really conservative.

H.A.L. Fisher

#3. If our credit be so well built, so firm, that it is not easy to be shaken by calumny or insinuation, envy then commends us, and extols us beyond reason to those upon whom we depend, till they grow jealous, and so blow us up when they cannot throw us down.

Edward Hyde, 1st Earl Of Clarendon

#4. Guatemala commends the visionary decision of the citizens of Colorado and Washington

Otto Perez Molina

#5. He who commends the nature of the soul as the supreme good, and condemns the nature of the flesh as evil, at once both carnally desires the soul, and carnally flies the flesh, because he feels thus from human vanity, not from divine truth.

Saint Augustine

#6. The first act's doubtful, but we say, it is the last commends the play.

Robert Herrick

#7. While God can work through us in spite of our mistakes, incompetence, and lack of preparation, he commends skill and uses it for his glory.

Bob Kauflin

#8. He who commends the brutalities of the past, sows the seeds of future crimes.

Robert Green Ingersoll

#9. Worship is the actual act of ascribing worth directly to God. Worshipful actions may do this indirectly, but when the Bible commands and commends worship as our highest expression, it is not talking about anything other than direct, intentional, Vertical outpouring of adoration.

James MacDonald

#10. Cincinnati is a beautiful city; cheerful, thriving, and animated. I have not often seen a place that commends itself so favourably and pleasantly to a stranger at the first glance as this does.

Charles Dickens

#11. Approve not of him who commends all you say.

Benjamin Franklin

#12. A politician who commends himself as 'caring' and 'sensitive' because he wants to expand the government's charitable programs is merely saying that he's willing to do good with other peoples' money.

P. J. O'Rourke

#13. The dog commends himself to our favor by affording play to our propensity for mastery.

Thorstein Veblen

#14. The Church commends the law-makers for their prompt reaction to outlaw same-sex relationships in Nigeria and calls for the bill to be passed since the idea expressed in the bill is the moral position of Nigerians regarding human sexuality.

Peter Akinola

#15. A man never speaks of himself without losing something. What he says in his disfavor is always beleived, but when he commends himself, he arouses mistrust.

Michel De Montaigne

#16. Truth is congenial to man. Moral truth is then most consummate when, like beauty, it commends itself without argument. The righteous not only does right, but loves to do right.

Francis William Newman

#17. We live in a generation that applauds the bad more than it commends the good.

Pierre Alex Jeanty

#18. The heart easily commends and condemns itself, depending on our wave like performance. That is why we must base our worth in Jesus alone.

Alisa Hope Wagner

#19. Greatly his foes he dreads, but more his friends; He hurts me most who lavishly commends.

Charles Churchill

#20. People say I'm the life of the party Because I tell a joke or two Although I might be laughing loud and hearty Deep inside I'm blue So take a good look at my face You'll see my smile looks out of place If you look closer, it's easy to trace The tracks of my tears..

Smokey Robinson

#21. I ask you, what would you do if you could erase one bad memory and retain all that was beautiful in your life? Would you not move heaven and earth - and get loads of therapy - to have that?

Noorilhuda

#22. With men, the state of nature is not a state of peace, but war.

Immanuel Kant

#23. The people like the American Legion Post that gave us a chance to play. A place to play and a chance to play.

Dave Winfield

#24. i use pain to push me to greatness

Eric Thomas

#25. During my 40-year coaching career at West Point, Indiana and Texas Tech, my teams reached the Final Four on five occasions, winning the national championship three times.

Bobby Knight

#26. For many characters, the prospect of having a child in their life brings up a lot of issues about their own parents. And who doesn't love that? Bad mommy or daddy issues are a delicious staple in romance novels.

Molly O'Keefe

#27. Never so sure our rapture to create
As when it touch'd the brink of all we hate.

William Hazlitt

#28. Who ne'er knew joy but friendship might divide,Or gave his father grief but when he died.

Alexander Pope

#29. Everything one believes in begins to exist

Ilse Aichinger

#30. No man is truly free who is in financial bondage. 'Think what you do when you run in debt', said Benjamin Franklin, 'you give another power over your liberty.'

Ezra Taft Benson