#accompanied

All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action. ↗

— Demosthenes

#action #empty #speech #unless #vain

Although I had resigned my commission as an officer two years before, I immediately left Switzerland, accompanied by my wife, in order to report for duty. As it happened, a wire reached me a day later calling me to the colors. ↗

— Fritz Kreisler

#although #before #calling #colors #commission

Civilisation has ever accompanied emigration and conquest - the conflict of opinion, of religion, or of race. ↗

— Alfred Russel Wallace

#civilisation #conflict #conquest #emigration #ever

Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause. ↗

— Baruch Spinoza

#cause #idea #oneself #pleasure

Genius is always accompanied by enthusiasm. ↗

— Bryant H. McGill

#always #enthusiasm #genius

If the desire to write is not accompanied by actual writing, then the desire must be not to write. ↗

— Hugh Prather

#actual #desire #must #then #write

But in reality we are accompanied by the whole dancing universe. ↗

— Ruth St. Denis

#dancing #reality #universe #whole

I still agree with the invasion of Iraq. I don't agree with most of the decisions that accompanied it. ↗

— William Hague

#agree #decisions #i #invasion #iraq

Each concession we make is accompanied by an inner diminution of which we are not immediately conscious. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#concession #conscious #diminution #each #immediately

Every general increase of freedom is accompanied by some degeneracy, attributable to the same causes as the freedom. ↗

— Charles Horton Cooley

#attributable #causes #every #freedom #general