Vices Quotes - Page 19

• Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure only death can stop it. Financial security then is a great help as it keeps you from worrying.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Writing, Worry, Helping

  Source: www.mhpbooks.com

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• There is a difference between a private devotional life and a corporate one. Solemnity is proper in church, but things that are proper in church are not necessarily proper outside, and vice versa.

  C. S. Lewis

  Differences, Church, Solemnity

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• In America there are people advocating for trans rights and people like Vice President Pence, who is vehemently opposed. In Pakistan, too, you have all kinds of folks - from flamboyant gay fashion designers and female Air Force pilots to the Taliban. A cross-dressed man used to be the top TV talk show host. It was actually quite radical. So the diversity of these societies is often lost on people.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Fashion, Gay, Men

  "Love in the Time of Mass Migration". Interview With Alexander Sammon, www.motherjones.com. March 4, 2017.

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• For AXE to take a chance on me and to help me, you know, collaborating with them was just a really, really big deal for me. It shows that they bought into me and vice versa so it's a good relationship.

  Michael B. Jordan

  Good Relationship, Helping, Chance

  Source: thesource.com

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• Nixon identified himself as a crisis-laden man. He'd reach levels of victory and then he'd plunge into defeat. He was vice president, then he lost to Kennedy, then he lost the California governorship. Then came a great comeback and then he blew it again - and the next comeback, after he lost the presidency. He was a man who needed the feeling of walking the precipice.

  Oliver Stone

  Men, California, Feelings

  Source: www.rogerebert.com

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• Quebec's distinct character makes Canada an even better country, and vice versa: being in Canada makes Quebec a better place too.

  Philippe Couillard

  Country, Character, Canada

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I won't deny the polemical elements in my work, but they are less in the service of attempting to reform human behavior than the delighted exercise of my rather malicious sense of humor - especially vis-a-vis the horrifying everyday environment we have produced for ourselves. These mall-scapes, burb-scapes, urban wildernesses, starchitect stunts, and other toxic contexts for our daily lives express about every human vice, stupidity, and blunder that it is possible for a society to make. It all leads, really, to a psychological place where only comedy or despair make sense.

  James Howard Kunstler

  Exercise, Stupidity, Everyday

  Interview With Simmons B. Buntin, www.terrain.org.

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• I was raised by a single mom who had to put herself through school while looking after two kids. And she worked hard every day and made a lot of sacrifices to make sure we got everything we needed. My grandmother, she started off as a secretary in a bank. She never got a college education, even though she was smart as a whip. And she worked her way up to become a vice president of a local bank, but she hit the glass ceiling. She trained people who would end up becoming her bosses during the course of her career.

  Barack Obama

  Mom, Smart, School

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• In Catholicism, you learn to worship a superior god that creates, who organizes and creates. And when you do novels, you have this illusion that you are following the model of the creator, that you are playing the creator who has to organize that. It is a vice and a sin, and I like to sin. I'm a vicious person.

  Carmen Boullosa

  Worship, Sin, Illusion

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Sometimes you get lit students that know a lot about the canon but virtually nothing about contemporary poetry and vice versa. I like to mix things up.

  Elaine Equi

  Students, Sometimes, Canon

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The vice-president of an advertising agency is a bit of executive fungus that forms on a desk that has been exposed to conference.

  Fred Allen

  Funny, Humor, Agency

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• I am the worst influence. If you can't handle your vices, then I am the Devil.

  Tori Amos

  Devil, Influence, Worst

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• I can see how the young girls really get hurt when their moms are critical, or vice versa when they're overly critical of their moms. It can be so painful.

  Tori Amos

  Girl, Mom, Hurt

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• All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.

  Aristotle

  Character, People, Fairness

  Aristotle (1953). “Ethics: The Nicomachean Ethics”

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• Ignorance and a narrow education lay the foundation of vice, and imitation and custom rear it up.

  Mary Astell

  Ignorance, Foundation, Imitation

  Mary Astell (2002). “A Serious Proposal to the Ladies”, p.67, Broadview Press

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• Piety is the most solid goodness, and the vilest of what is evil is vice.

  Abu Bakr

  Evil, Goodness, Caliphs

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• Where the state begins, individual liberty ceases, and vice versa.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Individuality, Liberty, States

  Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin (1953). “The Political Philosophy of Bakunin: Scientific Anarchism”, Free Pr

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• When law becomes despotic, morals are relaxed, and vice versa.

  Honore de Balzac

  Law, Literature, Moral

  Honore de Balzac (2011). “The Magic Skin: Or The Wild Ass's Skin”, p.56, The Floating Press

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• Remember, no one decides who they're going to vote for based on the vice president. I mean that literally.

  Joe Biden

  Mean, President, Vote

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• Except for the title 'father,' there is no title, including vice president, that I am more proud to wear than that of a senator of the United States.

  Joe Biden

  Dad, Father, President

  "Preston on Politics: Obama's 'Senate man'" by Mark Preston, www.cnn.com. January 21, 2009.

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• What this country needs what every country needs occasionally is a good hard bloody war to revive the vice of patriotism on which its existence as a nation depends.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Country, War, Patriotism

  Ambrose Bierce, S. T. Joshi, Tryambak Sunand Joshi, David E. Schultz (2003). “A Much Misunderstood Man: Selected Letters of Ambrose Bierce”, p.208, Ohio State University Press

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• If you are the wife of a governor or the wife of a vice president, I think you can be prepared for it.

  Barbara Bush

  Thinking, Wife, President

  "Barbara Bush On Obama’s Reelection: ‘People Spoke. Move On, Get On With It’" by Melanie Warner, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 15, 2012.

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• As his vice president for eight years, I learned more from Ronald Reagan than from anyone I encountered in all my years of public life.

  George H. W. Bush

  Eight, Years, President

  Eulogy for Ronald Reagan, delivered 11 June 2004, National Cathedral, Washington, D.C.

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• The tongue may be employed about, and made to serve all the purposes of vice, in tempting and deceiving, in perjury and injustice.

  Joseph Butler

  Lying, Deceit, Purpose

  Joseph Butler (2012). “Human Nature and other Sermons”, p.26, Simon and Schuster

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• In the midst of vice we are in virtue, and vice versa.

  Samuel Butler

  Virtue, Vice Versa, Midst

  Samuel Butler (1951). “Samuel Butler's notebooks”

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