2866750 Quotes & Sayings

And I think most people in this country want to see a president that's got the courage to say we're going to cut the tax burden, and reduce the regulatory climate, and we're going to get Americans working. — Rick Perry

I have work to do as a human being. — Maria Thayer

Women like men who listen. We have two ears and one mouth, so we should listen twice as much as we speak. — Josh Bowman

And where did he finish the last sentence he would ever begin on earth? — Stephen King

I don't believe that we should limit waterboarding - or, quite frankly, any other alternative torture technique - if it means saving Americans' lives. — Aaron Schock

Propaganda invariably serves the long-term interests of some elite. — John Berger

Each of these strategies-get a little better at it, design a support system, use one of your strongest themes to overwhelm your weakness, find a partner, and just stop doing it-can help you as you strive to build your life around your strengths. — Donald O. Clifton

So long ago, was it in a dream, was it just a dream? — John Lennon

There's no real preparing at home for stand-up. You just go and you just do it. — Louis C.K.

From earliest days I wanted to be someone else. The injunction nosce te ipsum had an ashen taste on my tongue from the first time a teacher enjoined me to repeat it after him. I knew myself, all too well, and did not like what I knew. Again, I must qualify. It was not what I was that I disliked, I mean the singular, essential me - although I grant that even the notion of an essential, singular self is problematic - but the congeries of affects, inclinations, received ideas, class tics, that my birth and upbringing had bestowed on me in place of a personality. In place of, yes. I never had a personality, not in the way that others have, or think they have. I was always a distinct no-one, whose fiercest wish was to be an indistinct someone, I know what I mean. — John Banville

The Laws of Reasoning consist of the ground, the path, and the result ... Suffering is in the mind. How we perceive happiness determines our suffering or not. — Dalai Lama

Thought changes structure ... I saw people rewire their brains with their thoughts, to cure previously incurable obsessions and trauma. — Norman Doidge

Anti-theses.- The most senile thing ever thought about man is contained in the celebrated saying 'the ego is always hateful'; the most childish is the even more celebrated 'love thy neighbor as thyself'. - In the former, knowledge of human nature has ceased, in the latter it has not yet even begun. — Friedrich Nietzsche

It was when I realized I needed to stop trying to be somebody else and be myself, that I actually started to own, accept and love what I had, — Tracee Ellis Ross

If a man, holding a belief which he was taught in childhood or persuaded of afterwards, keeps down and pushes away any doubts which arise about it in his mind, purposely avoids the reading of books and the company of men that call in question or discuss it, and regards as impious those questions which cannot easily be asked without disturbing it - the life of that man is one long sin against mankind. — William Kingdon Clifford