#sage

Ridiculous yachts and private planes and big limousines won't make people enjoy life more, and it sends out terrible messages to the people who work for them. It would be so much better if that money was spent in Africa - and it's about getting a balance. ↗

— Richard Branson

#africa #balance #better #big #enjoy

Living most of the time in a world created mostly in one's head, does not make for an easy passage in the real world. ↗

— Sydney Brenner

#does #easy #head #living #make

The stiffer the penalty, the greater the message is sent. ↗

— Lou Brock

#message #penalty #sent

In antiquity the sage kings recognized that men's nature is bad and that their tendencies were not being corrected and their lawlessness controlled. ↗

— Xun Zi

#bad #being #controlled #corrected #kings

We must send the message that if you use illegal drugs, you will pay the ultimate price by not playing an entire season. And if you get caught again, you will be banished for life. ↗

— Jim Bunning

#banished #caught #entire #get #illegal

The overcoming of adversity and, ultimately, denying it the rite of passage, has been a constant and perpetual motive throughout my life. ↗

— Heather Mills

#been #constant #denying #life #motive

The Epistles in the New Testament have all of them a particular reference to the condition and usages of the Christian world at the time they were written. ↗

— Joseph Butler

#christian world #condition #epistles #new #new testament

Though sages may pour out their wisdom's treasure, there is no sterner moralist than pleasure. ↗

— Lord Byron

#moralist #out #pleasure #pour #sages

There's a lot of things that are said on the American Idol message board. I quit reading them because most of the people are very mean. ↗

— Carrie Underwood

#american idol #because #board #i #i quit

My message of common-sense solutions is resonating with people. People around the country are starting to know who I am and starting to identify me with solutions, not rhetoric. ↗

— Herman Cain

#around #common-sense #country #i #i am