1856 Presidential Election Quotes & Sayings

Ale Perez I can't imagine why anyone would choose to be male. It's just so unsubtle. Women only have to deal with breasts, which are what they are. They don't suddenly stand up whenever they feel like it and begin pointing at something they want.

Augie Hwong You SO don't know what you're missing. — Steve Kluger

Most people don't manage to the utmost of their ability because they don't want to. — Robert Heller

My advice to graduates is to do anything except what you are trained for. Take that training to a place where it is out of place and stimulate ideas, shake up establishments, and don't take no for an answer. — Nicholas Negroponte

Spring afternoon, beautiful flowery meadow, gentle breeze touching the heart, this is the magic of life. — Debasish Mridha

Quality is pride of workmanship. — W. Edwards Deming

Can a sparrow know how a stork feels? — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Like it or not, women are always subject to criticism if they show too much feeling in public. — Hillary Rodham Clinton

The two great aims of industrialism - replacement of people by technology and concentration of wealth into the hands of a small plutocracy - seem close to fulfillment. — Wendell Berry

Here is an old phrase I like: "The only way to the universal good is that we all become strangers to ourselves." You imagine looking at yourself with a foreign gaze, through foreign eyes. I think this is something that could be the greatest thing in humanity. You are never really limited just to your own perspective. I don't like the false identity politics of multiculturalism which says that "you are enclosed in your culture." No, we have all this amazing capacity to be surprised, not by others, but by ourselves seeing how what we are doing is strange. — Slavoj Zizek

A Mind could hold any set of facts and opinions it wanted without having to tell anybody what it knew or thought, or why. — Iain M. Banks

God is not going to negotiate His holiness ... in order to accommodate us. — R.C. Sproul

I am a witness to nations and people deprived of their freedom. I was there. I watched that great Iron Curtain drop around nations which formerly had prized their freedom - good people. I was aghast as these were written off by the stroke of a pen. — Ezra Taft Benson

Our increasingly humanistic laws, courts and legislators are giving us a new morality. They tell us, as they strike down laws resting upon biblical foundations, that morality cannot be legislated, but what they offer is not only legislated morality, but salvation by law. — Rousas John Rushdoony

We can do anything, or almost, but how balanced, magnanimous, and modest one has to be to do anything! And also how patient. It is as true in the arts as anywhere else. — May Sarton

Remember, for every shot you fire, someone, somewhere, is making money. — Tom Clancy