24todouble Quotes & Sayings

It pays to know humility, lest the delusion of control, of mastery, overwhelms. — Steven Erikson

Five to six thousand people die every year waiting for organs, but nobody cares. — Jack Kevorkian

Taxes are a barbaric remnant of ancient times in which early farmers, tied to the land, no longer able to roam freely, unable to fight back with awkward agricultural tools the way they once could with hunting implements, became victims, first, of itinerant plunderers, then of bandits settling down beside them to become the governments we know today. — L. Neil Smith

Advertising has always been the Peck's Bad Boy of American business urging us to buy things we probably don't need and often can't afford. — Andrew Hacker

I don't know for sure where I'm going to end up.
But I know who I love. And I'm figuring out that might be enough to live for. — Katie Kacvinsky

Better to sink with tempests raging o'er
Masts all dismantled and hull gaping wide
Than rest and rot on some unclouded shore
The idle plaything of the listless tide.

Better the grime of battle on the brow,
With grim defeat to crush thy dying hand
Than through long years of peace to tyrant bow
Or dwell captive in a strangers land.

Better the castle with beleaguered gate,
By battle's lightning shivered in a day
Than peaceful walls in pomp of sullen state,
Through centuries sinking to a dull decay.

Better resolve to win thy heart's desire,
And striving bravely, die in the endeavor
Than have the embers of some smothered fire
Lie smouldering in thy saddened soul forever. — Sam Davis

The operating table was empty.
'Where's he gone?' demanded Jane.
'he didn't leave a note,' said Rye — Adam Baker

If you think you're fine, you'll start to believe it. — Jodi Picoult

How can I have both? This question will change your life. It will take you from a model of scarcity and limitation to a universe of possibilities and abundance. This — T. Harv Eker

The whitest robes, unless their purity be preserved by divine grace, will be defiled by the blackest spots. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Managers who insist that employees produce heaps of papers should know that such an approach may result in sloppy implementation. — Eraldo Banovac

We mustn't imagine that our feeling of being close to God is a true index of the reality. — N. T. Wright

It is often so: the harder it is to hear, the more a truth is worth saying. — Andre Gide

That Astronomical Annoyance, the Star Shell, Which Momentarily Enables You to Scrutinize the Kind of Mud You Are In. — Bruce Bairnsfather