Vainglory, however, no matter how much medieval Christianity insisted it was a sin, is a motor of mankind, no more eradicable than sex.
– Barbara W Tuchman
Related Quotes:
- Often the contempt of vainglory becomes a source of even more vainglory, for it is not being scorned when the contempt is something one is proud of. – Augustine of Hippo
- – Murder is a sin. It’s a sin in Judaism, it’s a sin in Christianity, it’s a sin in Islam and every other-¦- I’ll decide what’s a sin. – Robert Ferrigno
- Writing is like riding a bike. Once you gain momentum, the hills are easier. Editing, however, requires a motor and some horsepower. – Gina McKnight
- Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears. – Barbara Johnson
- I felt in some ways we’d had some sort of sex, sex of the mind, sex of ideas, sex of words, hundreds and thousands of words… – Lily King
- We may always enslave ourselves to mankind if we do not clearly differentiate between showing respect to mankind from pleasing mankind – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
- Debbie insisted on following the rhythm of the waves. Typical duck-squeezer sex: slow, frustrating, in-tune with nature. – Neal Stephenson
- The desolate narrowness, the definitive thinness of experience is both the vainglory and the dead giveaway of a provincial man. – Pat Conroy
- Sex is a matter of biology, while gender is a matter of grammar, and there is no earthly reason why sex should be involved in gender distinctions. – RL Trask
- It is rude to tweet while having sex. However, it is not rude to have sex while tweeting. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- The first thing you lose when you die is your motor skills. – John Howard Matthews
- Trust, like the lubricant in an engine, is noticed only when it is gone and the motor has seized up. – David Hurst
- The word morality, if we met it in the Bible, would surprise us as much as the word telephone or motor car. – George Bernard Shaw
- Women are attracted to bad boys not because they want to fall in love-¦ we just want to ride on the backs of their motor bikes. – Dermot Davis
- Among men, sex sometimes results in intimacy; among women, intimacy sometimes results in sex. – Barbara Cartland
- How do you explain plastic to a medieval forest bard? – Jefferson Smith
- Ah, life in medieval times! Yeah, we only have to worry about losing our heads every day. – David Kuklis
- Most of the tools from medieval times were extensions of the physical self. Tools are now extensions of the mental self. – Lotoya Peterson
- She stood slim and proud as some medieval witch princess against dawn. – LJ Smith
- Religious fundamentalists belong in a museum at the exhibit of medieval antiquities, not in any nation. – Abhijit Naskar
- Typography fostered the modern idea of individuality, but it destroyed the medieval sense of community and integration – Neil Postman
- There is no ‘big sin’ or ‘little sin’, it’s just sin. – Braden Pedersen
- Sin is more than a stain. Sin is a wound; it needs to be treated, healed. The place where my encounter with the mercy of Jesus takes place is my sin. – Pope Francis
- Nothing can hurt you except sin; nothing can grieve me except sin; nothing can defeat you except sin. Therefore, be on your guard, my Mansoul. – John Bunyan
- Sin is not just what the catechism says it is. Sin is not simply that which we commit. Sin is also what we desire but are too weak to do. – Sndor Mrai
- Guilt, fear, sin, doubt. Guilt, fear, sin, doubt. Guilt, fear, sin, doubt. That’s what religion is all about. – Stanley Victor Paskavich
- People sin, Lena. People in love sin a lot. God invented sex. He knows how it works – Joshilyn Jackson
- Sex swims in marriage, while sex sinks in sin of being single. – Anthony Liccione
- Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power. – Oscar Wilde
- Do you want to have sex? I think we should have sex. CASUAL sex. – Bryan Lee OMalley
- Sex was never as neat as the movies made it. Real sex was messy. Good sex was messier. – Laurell K Hamilton
- Diplomacy’s primary law: LEAVE ROOM FOR NEGOTIATION. – Barbara W Tuchman
- A minister’s (cabinet member’s) function was not to DO the work but to see that it got done. – Barbara W Tuchman
- Duty was not untinged by ambition. – Barbara W Tuchman
- The utility of perseverance in absurdity is more than I could ever discern. Edmund Burke – Barbara W Tuchman
- No single characteristic ever overtakes an entire society. – Barbara W Tuchman
- The tribal pull of patriotism could have no better testimony. – Barbara W Tuchman
- Why, since folly or perversity is expected of individuals, should we expect anything else from government? – Barbara W Tuchman
- Irritability was an occupational disease. Intolerant and intolerable belong in the same category. – Barbara W Tuchman
- Even the respectable have a small anarchist hidden on the inside. – Barbara W Tuchman