Archie Bunker Meathead Quotes & Sayings

When you have been concentrating so hard on something you can't stop and your brain gets to racing like a fly-wheel with the weight gone. You'd better just not think. — Ernest Hemingway,

There is no "universal moral urge" and not all ethical systems agree. Polygamy, human sacrifice, infanticide, cannibalism (Eucharist), wife beating, self-mutilation, foot binding, preemptive war, torture of prisoners, circumcision, female genital mutilation, racism, sexism, punitive amputation, castration and incest are perfectly "moral" in certain cultures. Is god confused? — Dan Barker

Suicidal pain includes the feeling that one has lost all capacity to effect emotional change. The agony is excruciating and looks as if it will never end. There is the feeling of having been beaten down for a very long time. There are feelings of agitation, emptiness, and incoherence. 'Snap out of it and get on with your life,' sounds like a demand to high jump ten feet. — David L. Conroy

With slow-moving zombies, what always comes at stake is our humanity. — Stephen Graham Jones

Freedom is not the right to do as you please but the liberty to do as you ought. — Suzanne Woods Fisher

The butterfly in a caterpillar: the eagle in an egg; the saint in a selfish human being. — Anthony De Mello

Everything which has been done so far in human history has been able to be done because all were possible! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

We all have direct experience with things that do or don't make us happy, we all have friends, therapists, cabdrivers, and talk-show hosts who tell us about things that will or won't make us happy, and yet, despite all this practice and all this coaching, our search for happiness often culminates in a stinky mess. We expect the next car, the next house, or the next promotion to make us happy even though the last ones didn't and even though others keep telling us that the next ones won't. — Daniel Gilbert

I like to write. I like to choose the right word, I like to write the right sentence. It's just like gardening or something. You put the seed into the soil at the right time, in the right place. — Haruki Murakami

Having insurance doesn't guarantee good health outcomes, but it is a critical factor. — Irwin Redlener

One Said, 'My grandfather once planted a Langra tree but, before he could eat the fruit, he had to marry it to another tree. A tamarind. Custom decreed it.'
'I know about that custom,' said a colleague. 'The jasmine is considered a suitable bride for a mango. — Alexander Frater

Liberating Iraq from a legacy of violence and putting it on the path to peace and prosperity will take time. — George Voinovich

The best tests of my Christian growth occur in the mainstream of life, not in the quietness of my study — Charles R. Swindoll

Um ... Bulgaria is an interesting country. The people are lovely. There are potholes the size of small planets. — Rachel Nichols