Conscience is, in most men, an anticipation of the opinions of others.

Where there are large powers with little ambition, nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes.

Shy and proud men are more liable than any others to fall into the hands of parasites and creatures of low character. For in the intimacies which are formed by shy men, they do not choose, but are chosen.

He who gives what he would as readily throw away, gives without generosity; for the essence of generosity is in self sacrifice.

The world knows nothing of its greatest men.

Conscience is, in most men, an anticipation of the opinions of others.

The hope, and not the fact, of advancement, is the spur to industry.

No siren did ever so charm the ear of the listener as the listening ear has charmed the soul of the siren.

I like to compare the holiday season with the way a child listens to a favorite story. The pleasure is in the familiar way the story begins, the anticipation of familiar turns it takes, the familiar moments of suspense, and the familiar climax and ending.

Expecting is the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, it loses today.

There is no great sport in having bullets flying about one in every direction, but I find they have less horror when among them than when in anticipation.

Our thinking and our behaviour are always in anticipation of a response. It is therefore fear-based.

Anticipation of movement, through muscular innervation and memory, by its retention of nerve impulse images, extend the present to the limit of a second or so.

But if we learn to think of it as anticipation, as learning, as growing, if we think of the time we spend waiting for the big things of life as an opportunity instead of a passing of time, what wonderful horizons open out!

Normally I work out a general summary of what I mean to do, then start writing, and the details can be different from my anticipation. So there is considerable flow, but always within channels.

Hollywood... a city I was to come back to time and again, in sickness and in health, in success and in failure, with anticipation and with dread.

He who matures early lives in anticipation.

The racing driver's mind has to have the ability to have amazing anticipation, coordination, and reflex. Because of the speed the car goes.

Conscience in most men, is but the anticipation of the opinions of others.

Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again.

It varies from song to song, although Buck Owens and I recently collaborated on writing a duet together and am looking forward with a great deal of anticipation to recording that track for the new studio album.

There is no more respected or influential forum in the field of journalism than the New York Times. I look forward, with great anticipation, to contributing to its op-ed page.

A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation; therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future.

I have good anticipation, and good reaction to the the ball because I've played so many matches in my life.

An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing.

As Daddy said, life is 95 percent anticipation.

Conscience is, in most men, an anticipation of the opinions of others.

If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.

So not only do we need to deal with threats as they emerge, we have to be thinking in anticipation of future threats, and the things we do have to be things that enable the system to continue to work.

When I was little I always thought I was marked out, special, on the verge of something momentous. I used to tingle with anticipation.

Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.

Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.

There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.

At any rate, I can only see such a success having positive effects for everyone, particularly as our anticipation of the World cup would only increase further.

I can look at the future with anticipation. And it's comforting to know that someday, as Christians, we'll be able to look back and have a little more clarity on why certain things in life happened.

Even though it's meant to be the season of jollity and goodwill, there's something delicious about the anticipation of a Christmassy ghost thrill.

Horror by definition is the emotion of pure revulsion. Terror of the same standard, is that of fearful anticipation.

I always start tours with a great deal of anticipation.

Nobody knows what anticipation is anymore. Everything is so immediate.

Over the years I must have spent thousands of hours silently brushing on the liquid coatings, preparing each sheet in anticipation of reaching the perfect print.

The half-hour of crowded anticipation, how fully it pays for the sterile hour that follows!

Forgetfulness - a gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.

I think that if there are positions that you can't argue... then the responsibility is probably to resign. If one's own conscience is opposed to the requirements and responsibilities of the job, then it's time to leave the job.

We cannot appeal to the conscience of the world when our own conscience is asleep.

A man's moral conscience is the curse he had to accept from the gods in order to gain from them the right to dream.

The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.

I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind.

We are yet to have a conscience at all about the exploitation of human cultures.

Maybe I'll learn how, but the only thing I can do is turn down parts that would hurt my conscience.