“When we live habitually with the wicked, we become necessarily either their victim or their disciple; when we associate, on the contrary, with virtuous men, we form ourselves in imitation of their virtues, or, at least, lose every day something of our faults.” MenFormLosesVirtueVictimFaultsContraryWickedVirtuousImitationDiscipleAssociates Author:Charles Caleb Colton
“Poverty is a strange and elusive thing. ... I condemn poverty and I advocate it; poverty is simple and complex at once; it is a social phenomenon and a personal matter. Poverty is an elusive thing, and a paradoxical one. We need always to be thinking and writing about it, for if we are not among its victims its reality fades from us. We must talk about poverty because people insulated by their own comfort lose sight of it.” PeopleIfsThinkingNeedsWritingMatterRealitySocialLosesSimplePovertyStrangeComfortSightVictimComplexesPhenomenonFadesElusiveParadoxicalPersonal MatterSimple And Complex Author:Dorothy Day
“I was called a feminist, and what I heard was, 'You are an angry, sex-hating, man-hating victim lady person.' This caricature is how feminists have been warped by the people who fear feminism most, the same people who have the most to lose when feminism succeeds.” PeopleMenPersonsHas BeensHateSexLosesHeardFeminismSucceedVictimAngryFeministCaricaturesMan Hating Book:Bad Feminist: Essays Source: Bad Feminist: Essays
“Well lose more species of plants and animals between 2000 and 2065 than weve lost in the last 65 million years. If we dont find answers to these problems, were gonna be victims of this extinction event that were at fault for.” IfsYearsWellsProblemLastsLostLosesAnswersAnimalMillionsEventsVictimPlantFaultsSpeciesExtinctionPlants And Animals Author:Paul Watson
“Earth is a homicide victim. We lose our children. There are wars. Disease. And God comes strolling by like a cosmic Billie Burke.” ChildrenWarEarthLosesDiseaseOur ChildrenVictimCosmicStrollingHomicide Author:William Peter Blatty
“Always try to innovate. If you lose your old fitness, you lose out to Bose-Einstein condensation. I am sure that companies that go under would feel better if they knew that they were victims of Bose-Einstein condensation.” IfsFeelsTryingScienceLosesCompanyMathematicsVictimFeel BetterCondensation Author:Jennifer Tour Chayes
“The idea that men 'lose control' around a woman in a short skirt is insulting to men, completely relieves perpetrators of responsibility, and erases and ignores male victims.” MenIdeasLosesResponsibilityVictimMalesInsultingEraseSkirtsPerpetratorsShort Skirts Author:Laura Bates
“What pedophiles and people who have sexual desires on children lose sight of to a terrible, terrible degree - a devastating degree - is that their victims are real people who will suffer forever whatever abuses are perpetrated on them.” PeopleChildrenRealDesireArtistSufferingLosesForeverTerribleDegreesAbuseSightVictimSexual Desire Author:Jock Sturges
“How many of us will be saved the pain of seeing the most important things in our lives disappearing from one moment to the next? I don't just mean people, but our ideas and dreams too: we might survive a day, a week, a few years, but we're all condemned to lose. Our body remains alive, yet sooner or later our soul will receive the mortal blow. The perfect crime - for we don't know who murdered our joy, what their motives were, or where the guilty parties are to be found...they too are the victims of the reality they created.” PeopleKnowsYearsMeanImportantIdeasSoulMomentsDreamBodyRealityMightPainJoyNextFoundLosesPerfectPartyOur LivesAliveSeeingWeekCrimeVictimRemainsImportant ThingsBlowDisappearSavedGuiltyMortalsMotiveSooner Or LaterMean PeopleIdeas And DreamsPerfect Crime Author:Paulo Coelho
“The noonday devil of the Christian life is the temptation to lose the inner self while preserving the shell of edifying behavior. Suddenly I discover that I am ministering to AIDS victims to enhance my resume. I find I renounced ice cream for Lent to lose five excess pounds... I have fallen victim to what T.S. Eliot calls the greatest sin: to do the right thing for the wrong reason.” SelfReasonChristianLife IsLosesSinFiveBehaviorDevilVictimAidsChristian LifeTemptationIceFallenRight ThingPoundsExcessShellsCreamIce CreamInner SelfResumesWrong ReasonsEliot Author:Brennan Manning
“Women have always been the primary victims of war. Women lose their husbands, their fathers, their sons in combat.” WarFatherLosesSonHusbandVictimFeministPrimariesCombatVictims Of War Author:Hillary Clinton
“If you don't want to be a victim, don't act like one." It was fairly safe to assume that that was the first time anyone had ever spoken to W. W. Hale the Fifth in that manner. Kat was also fairly certain it wouldn't be the last. "I might lose my grandmother's company." Kat gave a smile and held Hale tight. "You won't lose me.” IfsWantFirstsMightLastsCertainLosesCompanySafeFirst TimeVictimAssumingGrandmotherMy GrandmotherFifthHale Author:Ally Carter
“These are all cases of proved or presumptive baloney. A deception arises, sometimes innocently but collaboratively, sometimes with cynical premeditation. Usually the victim is caught up in a powerful emotion -- wonder, fear, greed, grief. Credulous acceptance of baloney can cost you money; that's what P. T. Barnum meant when he said, 'There's a sucker born every minute.' But it can be much more dangerous than that, and when governments and societies lose the capacity for critical thinking, the results can be catastrophic -- however sympathetic we may be to those who have bought the baloney.” ThinkingMaySaidSometimesGovernmentBornLosesResultsPowerfulGriefEmotionWonderCasesMinutesDangerousAcceptanceCostCapacityVictimGreedCaughtCriticalAriseDeceptionCynicalCaught UpCritical ThinkingSympatheticSuckerGovernment And SocietyBaloneyPowerful EmotionsPremeditation Book:The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark Source: The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
“Chili is not so much food as a state of mind. Addictions to it are formed early in life and the victims never recover. On blue days in October, I get this passionate yearning for a bowl of chili, and I nearly lose my mind.” MindStatesLosesBlueVictimAddictionPassionateState Of MindYearningBowlsOctoberChili Author:Margaret Cousins
“I do plead with the mothers of Zion to undertake modesty in dress. We may like to follow the fashion, but let us follow it in modesty. The most precious thing that a girl has is her modesty and if she preserves this in dress, in speech, in action, it will arm, and protect her as nothing else will. But let her lose her modesty, and she becomes a victim of those who pursue her, as the hare is of the hound; and she will not be able to stand unless she preserves her modesty.” IfsMayAbleActionMotherGirlLosesFashionArmsProtectSpeechDressesVictimPursuePreservesModestyHaresHoundsPrecious ThingsZion Author:L. Tom Perry
“When we succumb to believing that we are victims of our circumstances and yield to the plight of determinism, we lose hope, we lose drive, and we settle into resignation and stagnation.” BelieveLosesFreedomCircumstancesEmpowermentVictimSettlingYieldResignationStagnationDeterminismPlightVictims Of Circumstance Author:Stephen Covey
“Women have always been the primary victims of war. Women lose their husbands, their fathers, their sons in combat. Women often have to flee from the only homes they have ever known. Women are often the refugees from conflict and sometimes, more frequently in today's warfare, victims. Women are often left with the responsibility, alone, of raising the children.” ChildrenWarSometimesHomeTodayFatherPoliticsLeftLosesResponsibilityKnownSonHusbandConflictVictimPrimariesCombatWarfareRefugeeVictims Of War Author:Hillary Clinton