Extolling The Virtues Quotes

#1. Extolling the virtues of conservation of energy, Churchill advised, Never stand when you can sit, and never sit when you can lie down.

Winston S. Churchill

#2. Capitalism's biggest political enemies are not the firebrand trade unionists spewing vitriol against the system but the executives in pin-striped suits extolling the virtues of competitive markets with every breath while attempting to extinguish them with every action,

Raghuram Rajan

#3. Poetry glories in excess. When it's not extolling the virtues of austerity.

Jacqueline Carey

#4. By being grateful, appreciating all we have instead of focusing on what is lacking, we allow more of the same to flow toward us.

William Powers

#5. Timor mortis conturbat me. The fear of death disturbs me.

William Dunbar

#6. History is nothing but assisted and recorded memory

George Santayana

#7. He breaks off and looks at Ryodan. "I think we better show her. Telling her doesn't seem to be working. I thought you said she was smart." "I took Barrons's word for it." "Apparently he was misinformed," Dancer says.

Karen Marie Moning

#8. If the evangelicals vote, they determine the election.

Ted Haggard

#9. Not sure if there is a God or why some all-powerful being would give half a damn about the likes of me.

Ellen Hopkins

#10. If clothes can help you see yourself on your best day, why shouldn't every day be that day?

Reed Krakoff

#11. You were just doing your job, she assured him. And then she thought just how powerful that sentiment was, how far down a nasty road that could take a person, shuffling along and simply doing their job.

Hugh Howey

#12. Drugs made me feel more normal.

Carrie Fisher

#13. I give as much as I can, and it's up to someone else to turn it into a movie. Good luck to you!

John C. Reilly

#14. The charms of money are distinctly under-represented in literature. There are no songs or poems extolling its virtues. This seems on the face of it strange. The claims of money to be celebrated in verse might well seem to be no less than those of faithful dogs, beautiful women, or jugs of wine.

Celia Green

#15. G'bye, I'm going out to play!

Shel Silverstein

#16. I did not aspire to become the world's only virgin with pubic lice.

John Green

#17. I grew up twelve miles outside of Montego Bay. In my early teens, I went to Kingston. It was like a different planet for me. In the country, people are kind. In the city, people are hard an' cold, like the concrete and steel.

Jimmy Cliff

#18. Oftentimes I felt ridiculous giving my seal of approval to what was in reality such a natural thing to do, sort of like reinventing the wheel and extolling its virtues. Had parents' intuition sunk so low that some strange man had to tell modern women that it was okay to sleep with their babies?

William Sears