9 79e 1200 Quotes & Sayings

In monarchies, each man's desire to do what was right in his own eyes could be restrained by beer, or force, by patronage, or by honor, and by professional standing armies. By contrast, republics had to hold themselves together from the bottom up, ultimately. — Gordon S. Wood

I feel like I'm playing some giant video game, or trying to solve a really complicated math equation. 'One girl is trying to avoid forty raiding parties of between fifteen to twenty people each, spread out across a radius of seven miles. If she has to make it 2.7 miles through the center, what is the probablitiy she will wake up tomorrow morning in a jail cell? Please feel free to round pi to 3.14'. — Lauren Oliver

As useful as an unhappy artist. As useless as a happy philosopher. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Most of all, I think of how much I've needed all of those things, and of the scars I now bear as testament to my weakness. — J. Kenner

Be classy. Anything but trashy. — Coco Chanel

Just because something causes you to have a feeling of aesthetic beauty does not make it a work of art. — Fred Ross

My mother and father taught me about black excellence and dynasty. They experienced racism personally, and when something like that happens to you and not around you, you develop a different perception than someone who has never experienced racism a day in their lives. — Lizzo

What do we really want to say to the world? Three main themes. The inability to find completion in our modern society, the inability to find completion within ourselves, and the new way to be human in what Christ offers us - His love and His perfect plan of redemption for us. — Jon Foreman

You know, a man's life is the most precious thing in the world, isn't it? So isn't it odd that a man will insure everything but his life? — Ben Feldman

Who knew freckles could be so sexy? — Jay Crownover

You can't sow without plowing first. First you have to break up the earth. — Alessandro Baricco

Some say it is better to rule in hell than serve in heaven. That is a defeatist attitude. I intend to rule everywhere, not just in Hell.
- General Agamemnon
New Memoirs — Brian Herbert

Fashion becomes unfashionable. Style never. — Coco Chanel

Fifth, the redemptive-historical significance of marriage as a divine symbol in the Bible only works if the marital couple is a complementary pair. — Kevin DeYoung

People respect you more if you just play and blow something out than if you take the easier road. That's how we think. You get more respect and people play harder for you. Just play till you blow it. Just play till it goes. — Terry Bradshaw