Under Quotes - page 4

Just as the performance of the vilest and most wicked deeds requires spirit and talent, so even the greatest demand a certain insensitivity which under other circumstances we would call stupidity. (Georg Christoph Lichtenberg)
Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think. View quote
Hannah Arendt
There was no choice. If you saw a dog going to be crushed under a car, wouldn't you help him? View quote
Oskar Schindler
You cannot like the word, but what is happening is an occupation -- to hold 3.5 million Palestinians under occupation. I believe that is a terrible thing for Israel and for the Palestinians. View quote
Ariel Sharon
He rolls it under his tongue as a sweet morsel. View quote
Matthew Henry
YOU are the big drop of dew under the lotus leaf, I am the smaller one on its upper side,' said the dewdrop to the lake. View quote
Rabindranath Tagore
All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do. View quote
Leo Tolstoy
I don't know how to defend myself: surprised innocence Cannot imagine being under suspicion. View quote
Pierre Corneille
The bitterest creature under heaven is the wife who discovers that her husband's bravery is only bravado, that his strength is only a uniform, that his power is but a gun in the hands of a fool. View quote
Pearl S. Buck
If I had been censured every time I have run my ship, or fleets under my command, into great danger, I should have long ago been out of the Service and never in the House of Peers. View quote
Horatio Nelson
The Harvard Law states: Under controlled conditions of light, temperature, humidity, and nutrition, the organism will do as it damn well pleases. (Larry Wall)
All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it. View quote
John Locke
Every church is a stone on the grave of a god-man: it does not want him to rise up again under any circumstances. View quote
Friedrich Nietzsche
Between the daylight gambler and the player at night there is the same difference that lies between a careless husband and the lover swooning under his lady's window. View quote
Honoré de Balzac
All the waste in a year from a nuclear power plant can be stored under a desk. View quote
Ronald Reagan
We were young. We were bored. And the old electroshock therapy machine was just under the stairs in a box next to the Hoover. View quote
Augusten Burroughs
My attitude on skis is different now. I have learned to put less pressure on myself and on the edges of my skis when I'm racing, to be keep myself more under control. View quote
Hermann Maier
Likewise nanotechnology will, once it gets under way, depend on the tools we have then and our ability to use them, and not on the steps that got us there. View quote
K. Eric Drexler
Today we stand on a bridge leading from the territorial state to the world community. Politically, we are still governed by the concept of the territorial state; economically and technically, we live under the auspices of worldwide communications and worldwide markets. View quote
Christian Lous Lange
Under the Assads, Kurds were forbidden from learning their own language at school, or even from speaking it in the military. The result is a generation of Syrian Kurds, many now in late middle age, who can't write their own language. View quote
Luke Harding
When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure. (Peter Marshall)
If I want to be free from any other man's dictation, I must understand that I can have no other man under my control. View quote
William Graham Sumner
Almost all people have this potential for evil, which would be unleashed only under certain dangerous social circumstances. View quote
Iris Chang
Just as a man would not cherish living in a body other than his own, so do nations not like to live under other nations, however noble and great the latter may be. View quote
Mahatma Gandhi
Under the tropic is our language spoke, And part of Flanders hath receiv'd our yoke. View quote
Edmund Waller