A9n2p06c Quotes & Sayings

In my career I defined myself by my music, and the danger is that one defines oneself based on popularity. As you know, that goes up and down, and you can't judge how you feel about yourself based on what your sales is. — Kenny Loggins

We do learn from experience and may not make the same mistakes again, but there is a whole new pickle jar of fresh ones just lying in wait for us to trip up and fall into. The secret is to accept this and not to beat yourself up when you do make new ones. — Richard Templar

I want to challenge the presumption that the world cannot know it is the world unless there is an alternative to the world. — Stanley Hauerwas

Machiavel, discoursing on these matters, finds virtue to be so essentially necessary to the establishment and preservation of liberty, that he thinks it impossible for a corrupted people to set up a good government, or for a tyranny to be introduced if they be virtuous; and makes this conclusion, 'That where the matter (that is, the body of the people) is not corrupted, tumults and disorders do not hurt; and where it is corrupted, good laws do no good:' which being confirmed by reason and experience, I think no wise man has ever contradicted him. — Algernon Sidney

What is best and most necessary usually happens. — Knute Nelson

I never was so rapid in my virtue but my vice kept up with me. — Henry David Thoreau

I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing. — Lauren Bacall