Emphases Or Emphasis Quotes

#1. All these people keep waxing sentimental about how fabulously well I am doing as a mother, how competent I am, but I feel inside like when you're first learning to put nail polish on your right hand with your left. You can do it, but it doesn't look all that great around the cuticles.

Anne Lamott

#2. If it is true that vice can never be done away with, the science of government consists of making it contribute to the public good.

Luc De Clapiers

#3. Karma is a Sanskrit word meaning "action." It denotes an active force, the inference being that the outcome of future events can be influenced by our actions. To suppose that karma is some sort of independent energy which predestines the course of our whole life is simply incorrect.

Dalai Lama XIV

#4. Learning has always been made much of, but forgetting has always been deprecated; therefore pedantry has pretty well established itself throughout the modern world at the expense of culture.

Albert J. Nock

#5. Men believe themselves to be free, simply because they are conscious of their actions, and unconscious of the causes whereby those actions are determined.

Baruch Spinoza

#6. Life, sometimes so wearying is worth its weight in gold the experience of traveling lends a wisdom that is old.

John McLeod

#7. America, we are better than these last eight years. We are a better country than this.

Barack Obama

#8. One of the emphases of the new democratic order is no impunity.

Yoweri Museveni