Alternates In Construction Quotes & Sayings

Most Substance-addicted people are also addicted to thinking, meaning they have a compulsive and unhealthy relationship with their own thinking. — David Foster Wallace

Unless the mass retains sufficient control over those entrusted with the powers of their government, these will be perverted to their own oppression, and to the perpetuation of wealth and power in the individuals and their families selected for the trust. — Thomas Jefferson

When I open a refrigerator door and the light goes on, I want to perform. — Mickey Rooney

So many people witness atrocities and can't take their eyes away from them, but that doesn't mean they're good. — Adam Levine

To my mind the single essential element on which all discoveries will be dependent is human freedom. — Barry Goldwater

Ladies, like variegated tulips, show
'Tis to their changes half their charms we owe. — Alexander Pope

It is when we go beyond instinct that we seem most idiosyncratically human. Perhaps, as Darwin suggested, the difference is one of degree rather than kind; it is quantitative, not qualitative. — Matt Ridley

Mum used to hide love letters from my boyfriends and put me down. Now I understand that she was a Polish immigrant forced to settle in Chicago. She was jealous of the freedom life gave me. — Ruby Wax