Vices Quotes - Page 34

I hope they get something of interest out of it, but I'd rather they all hate it and I like it, instead of vice versa... I make films to please myself first, and if the audience likes them, all the better.

... no community where more than one-half of the adults are disfranchised and otherwise incapacitated by law and custom, can be free from great vices. Purity is inconsistent with slavery.

I like something with 'vice' in it.

The more liked you are in Washington, the less liked you are in the rest of America, and vice versa.

Sometimes crowds start out not liking someone but then they shift and love them. Or vice versa. It can shift on a dime.

No one in Germany laughs at vice, nor do they call it the fashion to corrupt and to be corrupted.

People don't vote for vice president, they vote for president.

Perhaps the cruelest thing ever said of Hubert Humphrey was that he had the soul of a vice president.

Newspapers are closed if they print the wrong things in Iran. Iranian journalists or Iranian-American journalists, for that matter, I think are pressured in a lot of different ways, expected to give information to intelligence services. Americans can be thrown out of the country.

I think most novelists I know, certainly including me, feel the novels choose them rather than vice-versa.

The more you work, the more people see your work and would like to work with you, and vice versa.

Our competitors aren’t taking our market share with devices; they are taking our market share with an entire ecosystem.

Avarice is rarely the vice of youth.

It may be that vice, depravity, and crime are nearly always, or even perhaps always, in their essence, attempts to eat beauty, to eat what we should only look at.

People make institutions, not vice versa.

I'm a sucker for fries. It's definitely one of my biggest vices. My biggest savory vice for sure.

So most of the time when we are confronted by more, rather than a few, choices we're often novices and so we don't really know how to differentiate these various options.

... my life has been dedicated to my growth and evolution as a conscious being. ... becoming more aware of all that was taking place within me and around me; how my inner world affected my outer world and vice versa. I realized that the more awareness I have, the more choice I have in how I create or respond to the circumstances of my life.

Virtue needs a director and guide. Vice can be learned even without a teacher.

The vices of idleness are only to be shaken off by active employment.

We pardon familiar vices.

It's a vice to trust all, and equally a vice to trust none.

There is no evil that does not offer inducements. Vices tempt you by the rewards which they offer.

Vice is contagious, and there is no trusting the sound and the sick together.

Why do people not confess vices? It is because they have not yet laid them aside. It is a waking person only who can tell their dreams.