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Tag Name "Commends" (16)

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A politician who commends himself as 'caring' and 'sensitive' because he wants to expand the government's charitable programs is merely saying that he's willing to do good with other peoples' money.
P. J. O'Rourke
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The first act's doubtful, but we say, it is the last commends the play.
Robert Herrick
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He that commends me to mine own content Commends me to the thing I cannot get. I to the world am like a drop of water That in the ocean seeks another drop, Who, falling there to find his fellow forth, Unseen, inquisitive, confounds himself: So I, to find a mother and a brother, In quest of them, unhappy, lose myself.
William Shakespeare
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In this case, the neurotic resembles a human being who looks up to God, commends himself to His ways, and then religiously awaits how the Lord will guide him he is nailed to the cross of his fiction.
Alfred Adler
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He hurts me most who lavishly commends.
Charles Churchill
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Hath fortune dealt thee ill cards? let wisdom make thee a good gamester. In a fair gale, every fool may sail, but wise behavior in a storm commends the wisdom of a pilot to bear adversity with an equal mind is both the sign and glory of a brave spirit.
Francis Quarles
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Those who try to make room for sex as mere casual enjoyment pay the penalty: they become shallow. At any rate the talk that reflects and commends this attitude is always shallow. They dishonour their own bodies holding cheap what is naturally connected with the origination of human life.
G. E. M. Anscombe
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A man never speaks of himself without losing something. What he says in his disfavor is always beleived, but when he commends himself, he arouses mistrust.
Michel de Montaigne
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Guatemala commends the visionary decision of the citizens of Colorado and Washington
Otto Perez Molina
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He who commends the brutalities of the past, sows the seeds of future crimes.
Robert Green Ingersoll
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He who commends the nature of the soul as the supreme good, and condemns the nature of the flesh as evil, at once both carnally desires the soul, and carnally flies the flesh, because he feels thus from human vanity, not from divine truth.
Saint Augustine
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He that commends me to mine own content Commends me to the thing I cannot get.
William Shakespeare
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Approve not of him who commends all you say.
Benjamin Franklin
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Greatly his foes he dreads, but more his friends He hurts me most who lavishly commends.
Charles Churchill
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Truth is congenial to man. Moral truth is then most consummate when, like beauty, it commends itself without argument. The righteous not only does right, but loves to do right.
Francis William Newman
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Nothing commends a radical change to an Englishman more than the belief that it is really conservative.
H. A. L. Fisher