Vices Quotes - Page 23

• The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.

  Bertrand Russell

  Men, Intellectual, Demand

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Bertrand Russell's Best”, p.62, Routledge

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• Mr. Chairman, delegates, and fellow citizens: I am honored by the support of this convention for vice president of the United States. I accept the duty to help lead our nation out of a jobs crisis and back to prosperity - and I know we can do this.

  Paul Ryan

  Jobs, Support, President

  Republican National Convention VP Nomination Acceptance, delivered 29 August 2012, Tampa, Florida

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• In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice.

  Marquis de Sade

  Order, Kinky, Literature

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• Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization.

  Marquis de Sade

  Happiness, Lying, Organization

  marquis de Sade (1988). “Juliette”, Grove Press

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• Silicon Valley's involvement with Washington dates from one event, which was John Scully - who was the CEO of Apple - had dinner with President Clinton and Vice President Gore in 1993. And we're all going, like, 'What's going on? Why would we have dinner with the president?'

  Eric Schmidt

  Apples, President, Events

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• For a solitary animal egoism is a virtue that tends to preserve and improve the species: in any kind of community it becomes a destructive vice.

  Erwin Schrodinger

  Animal, Community, Totems

  Erwin Schrodinger (2012). “What is Life?: With Mind and Matter and Autobiographical Sketches”, p.101, Cambridge University Press

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• Lord, Lord, how subject we old men are to this vice of lying!

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Time, Lying

  'Henry IV, Part 2' (1597) act 3, sc. 2, l. [329]

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• I won vice president of my student body in high school. That doesn't mean anything.

  Al Sharpton

  School, Mean, President

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• Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Life, Virtue, Abstaining

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.4489, e-artnow

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• When Roosevelt came along, I approved of his program, generally. I figured an economic system should work for people, not vice versa.

  Sargent Shriver

  People, Economic, Program

  "Sargent Shriver: A Candid Portrait". Book by Robert A. Liston (p. 29), 1964.

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• Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.

  Adam Smith

  Fear, Excess, Regulation

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• I've always told Will, 'You can do whatever you want as long as you can look at yourself in the mirror and be okay.' Because at the end of the day, Will is his own man. I'm here as his partner, but he is his own man. He has to decide who he wants to be, and that's not for me to do for him. Or vice versa.

  Jada Pinkett Smith

  Men, Mirrors, Long

  "Jada Pinkett On Will Smith Open Relationship Rumor: ‘Will Is His Own Man’". HuffPost Live Interview, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 03, 2013.

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• It has always seemed slightly uncomfortable, the idea of politicised musicians. Very few of them are clever enough to do it; if they're good at the political side, the music side suffers, and vice versa.

  Robert Smith

  Clever, Ideas, Political

  "The Cure's Robert Smith: 'I'm uncomfortable with politicised musicians'" by Louis Pattison, www.theguardian.com. September 9, 2011.

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• What has the women’s movement learned from Geraldine Ferraro’s candidacy for vice president? Never get married.

  Gloria Steinem

  Talking, President, Movement

  "Gloria Steinem, a Woman Like No Other" by Sarah Hepola, www.nytimes.com. March 16, 2012.

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  Good pitching will always stop good hitting and vice-versa.

  Casey Stengel

  Sports, Baseball, Hitting

  Quoted in Paul Dickson, The Official Explanations (1980)

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• Steve Jobs was rare: a C.E.O. who actually had a huge impact on his company's fortunes. Contrary to corporate mythology, most C.E.O.s could be easily replaced, if not by your average Joe, then by your average executive vice-president. But Jobs genuinely earned the label of superstar.

  James Surowiecki

  Jobs, Average, Impact

  "Apple: What Happens Now?". www.newyorker.com. August 24, 2011.

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• Lower oil prices won't, by themselves, topple the mullahs in Iran. But it's significant that, historically, when oil prices have been low, Iranian reformers have been ascendant and radicals relatively subdued, and vice versa when prices have been high.

  James Surowiecki

  Iran, Oil, Significant

  "TROUBLED WATERS OVER OIL". www.newyorker.com. February 19, 2007.

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• There are many sham diamonds in this life which pass for real, and vice versa.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Real, Jewels, Jewelry Boxes

  William Makepeace Thackeray (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of William Makepeace Thackeray (Illustrated)”, p.8937, Delphi Classics

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• Vice President Dick Cheney reportedly has been disturbed over what he sees as the erosion of presidential powers since the Watergate scandal and has urged Bush to take a stronger stand against what Cheney sees as congressional intrusions into the executive branch.

  Helen Thomas

  Erosion, Presidential, Stronger

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• One of the most basic factors in sports is that winning becomes a habit, and losing is the same way. When failure starts to feel normal in your life or your work or even your darkest vices, you won't have to go looking for trouble, because trouble will find you. Count on it.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Sports, Winning, Way

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness”, p.287, Pan Macmillan

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• I love to shop, especially in retro stores. I have about a million pairs of old-school sports shoes like Adidas, so that's probably my biggest vice.

  Carrot Top

  Sports, School, Shoes

  "Comic's haven is Orlando, but Cabo was heavenly". Interview with Jae-Ha Kim, www.chicagotribune.com. September 13, 2011.

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• The Vice-Presidency is sort of like the last cookie on the plate. Everybody insists he won't take it, but somebody always does.

  Bill Vaughan

  Political, Doe, Cookies

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• Man will never understand woman and vice versa. We are oil and water. An equal level can never be maintained, as one will always excel where the other doesn't, and that breeds resentment.

  Dionne Warwick

  Men, Oil And Water, Levels

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• The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing...is a vice so mean and low, without any temptation, that every man of sense and character detests and despises it.

  George Washington

  4th Of July, Character, Mean

  "American Masonic Register and Literary Companion", Volume 1, (p. 163), 1829.

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• In the dying world I come from, quotation is a national vice.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Dying, World, Quotations

  The Loved One ch. 9 (1948)

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