60 Best Selected Quotes & Sayings

he not honestly believed the contrary. And it is precisely on such a point that the judgment of an educated Chinaman will carry most weight. Other internal evidence is not far to seek. Thus in XIII. ss. 1, there is an unmistakable allusion to the ancient system — Sun Tzu

Though Article II requires "natural born" citizenship, the Constitution does not explain what the phrase means. There was no constitutional definition of American citizenship until 1868, when the Fourteenth Amendment was adopted. Nor was there any existing body of American immigration law to explain it. — Garrett Epps

She doesn't approve of either sentimentality or graveyard humor at crime scenes. She says they waste time that should be spent working on the damn case, but the implication is that coping strategies are for wimps. — Tana French

My cat walked on my face just after dawn. — Jim Butcher

[Petunias are] as hopelessly impractical as a chiffon ball dress. — Eleanor Perenyi

I've never met a woman so beautiful and innocent, yet so skillful she steals your mind. I'm afraid you're going to be unforgettable."

-Lynx — Janelle Taylor

The news is a public service. It's a way to inform people of what's going on in their world. And when you make it about ratings and make it about ad dollars, there's no incentive to inform people. The incentive is to be sensationalistic and get as many people to watch as you can without any regard for truth or objectivity. — Michael Schur

Hawaii is absolutely beautiful. — Rachelle Lefevre

We are barely conscious. With a higher consciousness we can open the door between infinite possibilities. — Debasish Mridha

In three years of backbreaking studies that, according to Madison, "exacted perhaps the most severe of Jefferson's public labors," Jefferson had almost single-handedly provided "a mine of legislative wealth" that provided Virginians with a modern republic built on the foundations of Greece and Rome. It became a model for other states and the pattern after which the federal republic of the United States was modeled. Jefferson, in short, in his legal laboratory atop Monticello, invented the United States of America. — Willard Sterne Randall

I don't go out of my way to be outrageous, I just go out of my way to look at things. — Dave Allen

Being a father is the most rewarding thing a man whose career has plateaued can do. — Aristotle.

I want to do some different kind of songs, but say I want to do riffs, but I don't come up with any riffs that I really think are great. Then I can't do a riff album. I'm more of a song, melody person. — Stephen Malkmus