Explore Quotations, Proverbs & Sayings
Welcome to the biggest collection of quotations, proverbs and sayings! If you are looking for a specific quotation, proverb or saying, check our universal database. We have collected over 150,000 inspirational quotations, funny quotations, movie quotations, famous proverbs and cute sayings that we would like to share with you. Find quotations, proverbs and sayings for any occasion and view them all for free.
Browse quotations by author, topic or keyword.
Browse Keywords:
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z
(Click a letter to view the keywords)
Letter "G" » gratify
(Click a letter to view the keywords)
«The fundamental principle of human action, the law, that is to political economy what the law of gravitation is to physics is that men seek to gratify their desires with the least exertion»
Author: Henry George
| About:
Law and lawyers
| Keywords:
Action The, exertion, fundamental law, Fundamental Laws, fundamental principle, gratify, gravitation, human action, Laws of physics, law of gravitation, physics, political economy
«That they (the powers of heaven) may be conferred upon us, it is true; but when we undertake to cover? our sins, or to gratify our pride, our vain ambition, or to exercise control or dominion? or compulsion upon the souls of the children of men, in any degree of unrighteousness, behold, the heavens withdraw? themselves; the Spirit of the Lord is grieved»
Author: Joseph Smith
(Religious leader)
| About:
Religion
| Keywords:
Behold the Man, compulsion, conferred, cover, dominion, gratify, grieved, heavens, The Children of Men, undertake, unrighteousness, withdraw
«If you insist upon fighting to protect me, or ''our'' country, let it be understood soberly and rationally between us that you are fighting to gratify a sex instinct which I cannot share; to procure benefits which I have not shared and probably will not share.»
«Woman's dearest delight is to wound Man's self-conceit, though Man's dearest delight is to gratify hers»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| About:
Men and Women
| Keywords:
conceit, conceits, dearest, delight, delighting, gratifies, gratify, Hers, into the wind, self, though, winded, with conceit, wound, wounding
«Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.»
«Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.»
«The Ideal Man should talk to us as if we were goddesses, and treat us as if we were children. He should refuse all our serious requests, and gratify every one of our whims. He should encourage us to have caprices, and forbid us to have missions. He s»
«Here I swear, and as I break my oath may eternity blast me, here I swear that never will I forgive Christianity! It is the only point on which I allow myself to encourage revenge. Oh, how I wish I were the Antichrist, that it were mine to crush the Demon; to hurl him to his native Hell never to rise again / I expect to gratify some of this insatiable feeling in Poetry.»
Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley
(Poet)
| Keywords:
blast, breaking point, crush, demon, encourage, gratify, hurl, insatiable, native, oath, swear, The Antichrist, The Demon
«I was bred to the law, a profession to which I was never much inclined, and in which I engaged, rather because I was desirous to gratify a most indulgent father, than because I had any hope of success in it myself.»
Get access to over 800,000 college papers on the most popular topics for only $14.95/month.
Buy essay, term paper or research paper on the specific topic at a cheap price and get a discount!
Buy essay, term paper or research paper on the specific topic at a cheap price and get a discount!
