1846 Candy Quotes & Sayings

People that are conceited of their own merit take pride in being unfortunate, that themselves and others may think them considerable enough to be the envy and the mark of fortune. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

The Board of Inquiry report fails to recognize that the central problem in the Los Angeles Police Department is the culture. The reality is there will not be meaningful reform in the Los Angeles Police Department until the culture is changed. — Erwin Chemerinsky

My wife is a Christian and is extraordinary patient, logical, and philosophical. For years, I would challenge and condemn her beliefs, battering the structure of her conclusions with every argument, analogy, and evidence I could bring to bear. I am a very argumentative man, and I am as fell and subtle as a serpent in debate. — John C. Wright

No; he could be ruined again and again by hope, but he would never be capable of belief. — Michael Chabon

Let what I here set down meet with correction or applause, it shall be of equal welcome and utility to me [...]And yet, always submitting to the authority of their
censure, which has an absolute power over me, I thus rashly venture at everything. — Michel De Montaigne

One gem from that ocean is worth all the pebbles from earthly streams. — Robert Murray M'Cheyne

I don't get rattled about the big things. I get rattled when I have to pick up my laundry, get gas in the car, pick up a script. — Sherry Stringfield

Don't ever do anything for a man you don't want to do for you. — Amy Andrews

Contemporary poetry ... tries to transform the sign back into meaning:
its ideal, ultimately, would be to reach not the meaning of words, but the
meaning of things themselves. This is why it clouds the language, increases
as much as it can the abstractness of the concept and the arbitrariness
of the sign and stretches to the limit the link between signifier and signified. — Roland Barthes

It's been said that parents should give their children roots and wings. That was a perfect description of my parents. Even in a wheelchair, my father was a dreamer with his head in the clouds and my mother was the roots with both feet planted firmly on terra quaking firma. — Richard Paul Evans

I am because WE are and, since we are, therefore I am. — John S. Mbiti