27a Battery Quotes & Sayings

The obligation to earn one's bread by the sweat of one's brow also presumes the right to do so. A society in which this right is systematically denied, in which economic policies do not allow workers to reach satisfactory levels of employment, cannot be justified from an ethical point of view, nor can that society attain social peace. — Pope John Paul II

Nerds don't know they're nerds. I know I'm a... well, I prefer to be called a dork, thank you. — Tonya Kuper

When you surrender and stop resisting and stop trying to change that which you can't change, but be in the moment, be fully open to the blessings you've already received and those that are yet to come and stand in that space of gratitude ... and look at where you are and how far you've come and what you've accomplished - when you can claim THAT and SEE that, the literal vibration of your life will change. — Oprah Winfrey

One is almost tempted to say that the language itself is a mythology deprived of its vitality, a bloodless mythology so to speak, which has only preserved in a formal and abstract form what mythology contains in living and concrete form. — Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling

In medieval times the habit arose of expressing a man's wealth, no longer in terms of the amount of land in his estate, but of the amount of pepper in his pantry. One way of saying that a man was poor was to say that he lacked pepper. The wealthy lacked pepper. The wealthy kept large stores of pepper in their houses, and let it be known that it was there: it was a guarantee of solvency. — Waverley Root

As a little kid, Peter had figured that once you reached a certain age, somebody just handed you all the knowledge you'd need in order to be an adult. But it turned out that wasn't how it worked. — Tommy Wallach

Horror flooded his face. "Oh, Christ! — J.R. Ward

For when it is in the hope of making a priceless discovery that we desire to receive certain impressions from nature or from works of art, we have qualms lest our soul imbibe inferior impressions which might lead us to form a false estimate of the value of Beauty. — Marcel Proust

If the pretties were expected to make the supreme sacrifice in order to 'belong,' what could the unattractive female do? — Maya Angelou

For all I know, you look different by sunlight," Cameron prodded.
"I'm actually a blond," Julian deadpanned. — Abigail Roux

Those who criticize the most typically end up solving the least. — Abu Ammaar Yasir Qadhi

Resources are being destroyed, and if you don't have resources, you can't do business. — Jochen Zeitz

God must hate common people, because he made them so common. — Philip Wylie

If I'm lucky, in a month from now, best-case scenario, I'm managing a Cinnabon in Omaha, — Saul