The little vices of the great must needs be accounted very great.
Certainly, I know what to do, and when I am Vice President -- and I will be -- there will be contingency plans under different sets of situations and I tell you what, I'm not going to go out and hold a news conference about it. I'm going to put it in a safe and keep it there! Does that answer your question?
albinos aren't reproached for having pink eyes and whitish hair, why should they hold it again me for being a lesbian? It's a question of nature: my queerness isn't a vice, isn't 'deliberate,' and harms no one.
Hollis thought he looked like William Burroughs, minus the bohemian substrate (or perhaps the methadone). Like someone who'd be invited quail shooting with the vice-president, though too careful to get himself shot.
One of the most basic factors in sports is that winning becomes a habit, and losing is the same way. When failure starts to feel normal in your life or your work or even your darkest vices, you won't have to go looking for trouble, because trouble will find you. Count on it.
I think it is extremely interesting to think that, in some cases, vice might be, finally, more redemptive than virtue.
If the president and the Vice President dies who becomes President" "Thats easy Arnold Swartzanager
In the twentieth century our highest praise is to call the Bible 'The World's Best Seller. ' And it has come to be more and more difficult to say whether we think it is a best seller because it is great, or vice versa.
Vice is perhaps a desire to learn everything.
Nor did demons crucify Him; it is you who have crucified Him and crucify Him still, when you delight in your vices and sins.
Incivility is not a Vice of the Soul, but the effect of several Vices; of Vanity, Ignorance of Duty, Laziness, Stupidity, Distraction, Contempt of others, and Jealousy.
God's cause is committed to men; God commits Himself to men. Praying men are the vice-regents of God; they do His work and carry out His plans.
Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honoris a private station.
It can fairly be said of John Smith that he had all the virtues of a Scottish presbyterian, but none of the vices.
If it had been any different, if I had been born just one minute later, or been in the wrong pace at the right time or vice versa, the life that I've lived and come to love would not exist. And that is a situation that I would not want to consider in the slightest.
Ennui, the parent of expensive and ruinous vices.
Some vices only lay hold of us by means of others, and these, like branches, fall on removal of the trunk.
Let flattery, the handmaid of the vices, be far removed (from friendship). [Lat. , Assentatio, vitiorum adjutrix, procul amoveatur. ]
Virtue consists in avoiding vice, and is the highest wisdom. [Lat. , Virtus est vitium fugere, et sapientia prima. ]
The vice presidential candidate tends to be a bit of an afterthought.