24441 Quotes & Sayings

Women's thoughts are impelled by their feelings. Hence the sharp-sightedness, the direct instinct, the quick perceptions; hence also their warmer prejudices and more unbalanced judgments. In this the child is like the woman. — Antoinette Brown Blackwell

People in this day and age are still under the illusion that every woman who is successful must be being controlled by a man ... I'm the boss. — Lily Allen

How in heaven's name can a nation with a $1 trillion surplus threaten so much scientific research so vital to its future? — David Gergen

As a kid, I grew to define what I didn't want my life to be like by sitting behind moaning women on the bus, hearing them bang on about their aches and pains, both real and imagined. — Julie Burchill

It is not the greatness of a man's means that makes him independent, so much as the smallness of his wants. — William Cobbett

The education of children for God is the most important business done on earth. — R.L. Dabney

Why is marijuana against the law? It grows naturally upon our planet. Doesn't the idea of making nature against the law seem to you a bit ... unnatural? — Bill Hicks

Chess is a contest between two men which lends itself particularly to the conflicts surrounding aggression. — Reuben Fine

You Kowalskis have always gotten a little carried away."
This wasn't Mitch's first traffic stop. He knew it was best to be polite to the cop, who was just doing his job, and neither offer lame excuses nor get belligerent. But Durgin was too much. "We got carried away sometimes when we were young and stupid. Most kids do. But I'll be damned if I'm going to sit here and take shit from you because you lost control of the new cruiser and rolled it into a ball. I'm not a kid anymore and I'm not going to be spoken to like one. Write me the damn ticket and get on with your life. — Shannon Stacey

Thinking outside the box' is ridiculous nonsense, since whatever you can do in a 'box' or closed environment is not 'thinking'. If I 'think' about a problem but limit my thoughts to certain dimensions - then i am not thinking at all, because thinking implies that one at least tries to take all relevant factors into consideration, and as there's usually no way to tell which factors are and which are not relevant restricted thought is not 'thinking' and so 'thinking outside the box' is simply a eufemism for 'let's start to think', but the metafor implies a hidden desire to return to conformity immediately. — Martijn Benders

My doctor is nice; every time I see him, I'm ashamed of what I think of doctors in general. — Mignon McLaughlin

That feeling of hopelessness only serves your masters. — Mort Sahl

I vowed to find something to laugh about every day for the rest of my life. — Carolyn Brown