Allodial Quotes & Sayings

Clashes of values and the struggle for primacy constitute a constant in human history that accounts for that other constant - conflict and war. — Charles Krauthammer

The un-conscious distortion of the facts is almost harmless compared to the unconscious neglect of an animal's mental life until it verges on the unusual and marvelous. — Edward Thorndike

Wouldn't it be better to have a watertight law designed to catch the guilty, rather than a press release law designed to catch the headlines? — William Hague

I love stage actors. There's something special about all people who have to do a performance eight shows a week, and musical people, especially, are so much fun. — Kelly Bishop

ALLODIUM (ALLO'DIUM) n.s.[A word of very uncertain derivation, but most probably of German original.]A possession held in absolute independence, without any acknowledgment of a lord paramount. It is opposed to fee, or feudum, which intimates some kind of dependance. There are no allodial lands in England, all being held either mediately or immediately of the king. — Samuel Johnson

There is a reason God limits man's days. — Mitch Albom

Let us fight the battle-retreat from the things that attract us and rouse ourselves to meet the things that actually attack us. — Seneca The Younger

If you want to correct your brother when he is doing wrong? you must keep yourself calm; otherwise you yourself may catch the sickness you are seeking to cure and you may find that the words of the Gospel now apply to you? 'Why do you look at the speck of dust in your brother's eye, and not notice the rafter in your own eye?' — John Cassian

Possibly the only dismaying aspect of excellence is that it makes living in a world of mediocrity an ongoing prospect of living hell. — Harlan Ellison

Hostel is one phase in a man's life that teaches him what Indian mothers fail to teach their children despite the use of potential weapons like rolling pin,broom stick, wiper so on and henceforth. Who knows if you are luckier, you might just experience your bachelorhood as a paying guest. — Parul Wadhwa

When you think about flying, it's nuts really. Here you are at about 40,000 feet, screaming along at 700 miles an hour and you're sitting there drinking Diet Pepsi and eating peanuts. It just doesn't make any sense. — David Letterman

If we can't express what we know in the form of numbers, we really don't know much about it. — Lord Kelvin

I want you. God, I want you. But only if it's real. — Maya Banks

Speech is for the convenience of those who are hard of hearing; but there are many fine things which we cannot say if we have to shout. — Henry David Thoreau

Use the word 'zeitgeist' as often as possible. Ideally, you want to find words that sound familiar but people don't really know their definitions: 'zeitgeist,' 'bildungsroman,' 'doppelganger' - better yet, anything Latin. But avoid 'paradigm.' It's so 1994. If you say the word 'paradigm,' everybody knows you're a poser. — Stephen Colbert

I am not ride-or-die. Those are some pretty limiting choices: So if I'm not riding, I gotta die? Can I get off and take the bus? Is "Let's talk about it" an option? What about "ride, or pause this if we need to"? There — Luvvie Ajayi