(170 quotes found)
“One way to compensate for a tiny brain is to pretend to be dead”
Scott Adams
“No other success can compensate for failure in the home.”
David McKay
“The sheepskin conferred on a student by a college hardly compensates for the human hide that will be knocked off him later in the school of experience”
Charley Jones
“One part is absorbed in the blood to compensate for the losses that are constantly taking place through respiration and perspiration, and all the material that Nature cannot use is rejected in the form of excrement.”
Antoine Lavoisier
“as in earlier mediation, including peace-making efforts when he was the state's attorney general, Kobayashi served without extra compensation.”
Charles Turner
“We will often find compensation if we think more of what life has given us and less about what life has taken away.”
William Barclay
“It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.”
Contributed by: Anna Williams
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“It is some compensation for great evils that they enforce great lessons”
Christian Nevell Bovee
“It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself”
“These citizens deserved to be compensated for their losses. This isn't a windfall, this is making up for what these people lost.”
Bruce DeBoskey