Arbitraries Quotes & Sayings

It is not love of self but hatred of self which is at the root of the troubles that afflict our world. — Eric Hoffer

I don't know any comedian who tailors his act to his audience. Maybe people say they do, but I can't even imagine them. — Colin Quinn

Life's pain. You just have to get over as much of it as you can.
-Isabel Culpeper — Maggie Stiefvater

I loved her in an odd kind of way, the way you love winter when you're hot in summer. — V.C. Andrews

This is all disgraceful and underscores how imperative it is that Obamacare be fully repealed and that the newly elected GOP Congress get a backbone and stand up to this cadre of scofflaws. — David Limbaugh

The more sincerity is developed, the greater share of truth you will have. And however much sincerity a person may have, there is always a gap to fill, for we live in the midst of falsehood, and we are always apt to be carried away by this world of falsehood. Therefore we must never think we are sincere enough, and we must always be on our guard against influences which may carry us away from that sincerity which is the bridge between ourselves and our ideal. No study, no meditation is more helpful than sincerity itself. — Hazrat Inayat Khan

You almost had me forget why I came here. It doesn't matter who you are, brother. The only thing that matters is what you've done. — Ben Ireland

It seems a perfectly normal thing to be 95. — Ruth Bernhard

Power from unearned privilege can look like strength when it is in fact permission to escape or to dominate. — Peggy McIntosh

I think that if you go about making movies to win Oscars, you're really going about it the wrong way. — Nicolas Cage

Satan wants to claim our souls and those of our children. He want our marriages and our families to fail. He wants darkness to reign. Despite thise, we needn't worry or back away from our duty to our family (present or future), our community, or others, for God will always support and bless us in our honest efforts t odo His will. He wants us to suceed more than Satan wants us to fail- and God is always more powerful. — John H. Groberg

Being female was so hard. Always having to rearrange yourself, to pluck yourself and whittle yourself and deprive yourself and inspect yourself in order to feel comfortable in this world. — Laura Kasischke

Maybe strong leaders are not quite as alluring as we think, and we should celebrate the fact that our leaders are just like us. Just because one candidate can't remember his whole speech and the other likes to put his feet up on the job doesn't mean they can't govern. — Jonathan Powell