Despicable means used to achieve laudable goals render the goals themselves despicable.
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
When a country is well governed, poverty and a mean condition are things to be ashamed of. When a country is ill governed, riches and honor are things to be ashamed of.
Confucius
Even if loving meant leaving, or solitude, or sorrow, love was worth every penny of its price.
Paulo Coelho
None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them; such persons covet secrets as a spendthrift covets money, for the purpose of circulation.
Charles Caleb Colton
People should love each other' sounds like Riis Park at sundown. It has very little meaning to the world at large.
James Hal Cone
Destiny is something not be to desired and not to be avoided. A mystery not contrary to reason, for it implies that the world, and the course of human history, have meaning.
Dag Hammarskjld
The wealthy man is not he who has money, but he who has the means to live in the luxurious state of early spring.
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Understand this, I mean to arrive at the truth. The truth, however ugly in itself, is always curious and beautiful to seekers after it.
Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie
When a politician is in opposition he is an expert on the means to some end; and when he is in office he is an expert on the obstacles to it.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
The sea has neither meaning nor pity.
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Womanliness means only motherhood;All love begins and ends there.
Robert Browning
Singapura means lion-city; prehistoric, myopic, Sanskrit-speaking visitors having spotted a mangy tiger or two in the mangroves. Sly Malays sometimes call it Singa pura-pura, which means pretending to be a lion.It is a profoundly provincial town pretending to be a metropolis.
Anthony Burgess
Sometimes, words have consequences you don't intend them to mean.
George Walker Bush