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Nine-tenths of our measures for preventing vice are really protective towards it, because they ward off the penalty.
— William Graham Sumner
The advantage of some is won by an equivalent loss of others.
— William Graham Sumner
Great success is built on failure, frustration, even catastrophy.
— Sumner Redstone
The slave power dares anything, and it can be conquered only by the united masses of the people. From Congress to the people, I appeal.
— Charles Sumner
War is a positive, precise and specific evil, of gigantic proportions ... making within the sphere of its influence all true grandeur impossible.
— Charles Sumner
The great hinderance to the development of this continent has lain in the lack of capital.
— William Graham Sumner
Sometimes divorce is better than marriage.
— Sumner Redstone
Summer grass," Jaime told his cousin. "Old Sumner Crakehall
— George R R Martin
The truth is that cupidity, selfishness, envy, malice, lust, vindictiveness, are constant vices of human nature.
— William Graham Sumner
Murdoch paid too much for the Wall Street Journal even when he didn't have any competition.
— Sumner Redstone
I'm a terrible sleeper. I get obsessive, repetitive thoughts and it's horrible.
— Eliot Paulina Sumner
Will Sumner was Jensen's college best friend, Dad's former intern, and the object of every one of my teenage fantasies.
— Christina Lauren
The Internet is a powerful way to make lots of money ... But we are not going to buy Yahoo!
— Sumner Redstone
Now, the plan of plundering each other produces nothing. It only wastes. All
— William Graham Sumner
There is no boon in nature. All the blessings we enjoy are the fruits of labor, toil, self-denial, and study.
— William Graham Sumner
Viacom's results for the first quarter put the company on a fast track for another record year in 2004.
— Sumner Redstone
Too old for what?" I demanded. "Fun?" I
— Janet Sumner Johnson
Society needs first of all to be free from meddlersthat is, to be let alone.
— William Graham Sumner
What is the real relation between happiness and goodness? It is only within a few generations that men have found courage to say that there is none.
— William Graham Sumner
Perhaps they do not recognize themselves, for a rich man is even harder to define than a poor one.
— William Graham Sumner
Nothing from man's hands, nor law, nor constitution, can be final. Truth alone is final.
— Charles Sumner
When it looks like everyone is against you, look inside for the truth.
— Sumner Davenport
The newspaper is dying. I'm not sure there will be newspapers and its one business I'd never be in.
— Sumner Redstone
It is the greatest folly of which a man can be capable to sit down with a slate and pencil to plan out a new social world.
— William Graham Sumner
Modeling is more fun in the Philippines
— Sophie Sumner
Although I now call him 'Sting' to his face, I can still distinguish 'Sting' from 'Gordon Sumner'.
— James Berryman
People in London are so much more exposed to danger, or bad things. It took me quite a long time to grow up in that environment.
— Eliot Paulina Sumner
It is not what happens to you or for you that makes you grateful. It's how you respond to what is happening, that shows your belief about gratitude.
— Sumner Davenport
From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise. It is by compromise that human rights have been abandoned.
— Charles Sumner
There are two sorts of pity: one is a balm and the other a poison; the first is realized by our friends, the last by our enemies.
— Charles Sumner
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Three things at least they [good politicians] must require; the first is back-bone; the second is back-bone; and the third is back-bone.
— Charles Sumner
In this country, where workmen move about frequently and with facility, the unions suffer in their harmony and stability. It
— William Graham Sumner
Jesus Christ, is everyone on something because I want some of whatever it is, Will grumbled, reaching for George's arm and looping it through his.
— Christina Lauren
The age of chivalry has gone; the age of humanity has come.
— Charles Sumner
Success is not built on success. It's built on failure. It's built on frustration. Sometimes its built on catastrophe.
— Sumner Redstone
What we prepare for is what we shall get.
— William Graham Sumner
If you ever live in a country run by a committee, be on the committee.
— William Graham Sumner
If I want a word, I make it. I don't like combustion. It's too quiet. I have some stuff in a state of combustication.
— Julius Sumner Miller
The ancient codes were doubtless originally suggested by the discovery and diffusion of the art of writing.
— Henry James Sumner Maine
Our life is a gift from God. What we do with that life is our gift to God.
— Samuel S. Sumner
I find Spanish really difficult. They speak so quickly, whereas in German it's very clear what they're saying. It's easier to repeat.
— Eliot Paulina Sumner
The great stream of time and earthly things will sweep on just the same in spite of us.
— William Sumner
Any one who believes that any great enterprise of an industrial character can be started without labor must have little experience of life.
— William Graham Sumner
I take every day as it comes and if I have to be somewhere, I'll be there.
— Eliot Paulina Sumner
The great force for forging a society into a solid mass has always been war.
— William Graham Sumner
The true greatness of nations is in those qualities which constitute the greatness of the individual.
— Charles Sumner
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.
— William Graham Sumner
I don't have a lot of self-confidence. I'm getting there. Before I had zero confidence, but it's one of those things you learn and accept.
— Eliot Paulina Sumner
When Sting arrived on Tyneside in November 1992, to receive his degree, he informed me that it was no longer me who was the skint one.
— James Berryman
If you watch a film without music, there's nothing that you can connect with.
— Eliot Paulina Sumner
We live in a war of two antagonistic ethical philosophies, the ethical policy taught in the books and schools, and the success policy.
— William Graham Sumner
I think I'm very in touch with nature because I grew up in that surrounding. That's a big part of who I am; I don't know anything different.
— Eliot Paulina Sumner
Can there be in our age any peace that is not honorable, any war that is not dishonorable?
— Charles Sumner
The true grandeur of humanity is in moral elevation, sustained, enlightened and decorated by the intellect of man.
— Charles Sumner
One thing must be granted to the rich: they are goodnatured.
— William Graham Sumner
The forgotten man ... He works, he votes, generally he prays, but his chief business in life is to pay.
— William Graham Sumner
Struggle ends where commitment begins.
— Sumner Davenport
The investments we make in ourselves will always deliver the most profitable returns.
— Sumner Davenport
I have a really supportive family, which is really wonderful, but I'm not forcing everyone to watch my work every week.
— Mickey Sumner
The taxing power is especially something after which the reformer's finger always itches.
— William Graham Sumner
I think the only way you learn is to surround yourself with people that are better than you.
— Mickey Sumner
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I kind of got inspired by [William] Wordsworth and [Samuel Taylor] Coleridge - I went the old traditional way of finding inspiration, I guess ...
— Eliot Paulina Sumner
When you go to a movie, it's about what's not being said. I tried to bring that to Greg Sumner. It was always about what's not being said.
— William Devane
The dogmatic radicals who assail "on principle" the inherited social notions and distinctions are not serving civilization. Society
— William Graham Sumner
We shall find that every effort to realize equality necessitates a sacrifice of liberty.
— William Graham Sumner
I had to pinch myself a couple of times that I was actually on stage at the Atlantic with Carol Kane.
— Mickey Sumner
Opportunity does not knock. You have to find it
— Sumner Redstone
What man ever blamed himself for his misfortune?
— William Graham Sumner
The movement of the progressive societies has hitherto been a movement from Status to Contract.
— Henry James Sumner Maine
The epoch of Customary Law, and of its custody by a privileged order, is a very remarkable one.
— Henry James Sumner Maine
We understand that the real market value of Blockbuster may never be fully realized as a wholly owned part of Viacom.
— Sumner Redstone
Taking men as they have been and are, they are subjects of passion, emotion, and instinct. Only
— William Graham Sumner
Such is the Forgotten Man. He works, he votes, generally he prays - but he always pays - yes, above all, he pays.
— William Graham Sumner
A nation cannot afford to do a mean thing.
— Charles Sumner
I have never known a man who was sensual in his youth, who was high-minded when old.
— Charles Sumner
The Roman Code was merely an enunciation in words of the existing customs of the Roman people.
— Henry James Sumner Maine
It's so rare that you see a movie that you are genuinely moved by on a real level, and you relate to it, and you come out feeling uplifted.
— Mickey Sumner
A fool is wiser in his own house than a sage is in another man's house.
— William Graham Sumner
It is remarkable that jealousy of individual property in land often goes along with very exaggerated doctrines of tribal or national property in land.
— William Graham Sumner
We need to listen to consumers' needs.
— Sumner Redstone
I'm English, and my favorite movie is 'Manhattan.'
— Mickey Sumner
The lobby is the army of the plutocracy.
— William Graham Sumner
The Roman jurisprudence has the longest known history of any set of human institutions.
— Henry James Sumner Maine
In order to succeed, you have to live dangerously.. as long as the danger is rationally accepted and as long as the rewards far outweigh the risk.
— Sumner Redstone
No true and permanent fame can be founded except in labors which promote the happiness of mankind.
— Charles Sumner
Reach out a hand to your brother, for the unselfish look out for their fellow man.
— Samuel S. Sumner
Moral excellence is the bright consummate flower of all progress.
— Charles Sumner
We all have to decide how we are going to fail, by not going far enough or by going too far.
— Sumner Redstone
We don't think that someone who effectuates creative suicide and costs the company revenue should be on the lot,
— Sumner Redstone
The most celebrated system of jurisprudence known to the world begins, as it ends, with a Code.
— Henry James Sumner Maine