Assenting Word Quotes & Sayings

Though we speak nonsense, God will pick out the meaning of it. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

In many fields of the administration of interventionist measures, favoritism simply cannot be avoided. — Ludwig Von Mises

The thing that surprised me and really puzzled me is that the job is really fun. Yahoo is a really fun place to work. — Marissa Mayer

Again and again the schools which form the twentieth century's elites throughout the West refer to their Socratic heritage. The implication is that doubt is constantly raised in their search for truth. In reality the way they teach is the opposite of a Socratic dialogue. In the Athenian's case every answer raised a question. With the contemporary elites every question produces an answer. Socrates would have thrown the modern elites out of his academy. — John Ralston Saul

But surely it is something to have been
The best beloved for a little while,
To have walked hand in hand with Love, and seen
His purple wings flit once across thy smile. — Oscar Wilde

My alma mater was books, a good library ... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity. — Malcolm X

There is no better means of promoting another person's change of heart than allowing our own heart to be changed. — C. Terry Warner

The girl in the mirror caught my eye briefly ... It is an uncanny feeling, that rare occasion when one catches a glimpse of oneself in repose. An unguarded moment, stripped of artifice, when one forgets to fool even oneself. — Kate Morton

Once you let the words go, you have no control over how they're printed or what the media does with them. So there's no point in trying to make plans or to control it. — Megan Fox

Love needs no reason material, external. But love lives strongly within reason, internal. — Dew Platt

The element of truth behind all this, which people are so ready to disavow, is that men are not gentle creatures who want to be loved, and who at the most can defend themselves if they are attacked; they are, on the contrary, creatures among whose instinctual endowments is to be reckoned a powerful share of aggressiveness. — Sigmund Freud

I am deeply worried because we are seeing an unleashing of violence by 2,000 to 3,000 thugs who come to smash and loot. My objective is to avoid mistakes by the police, so that people can protest in safety. — Nicolas Sarkozy

I scoot over to Poundcake. "Stay here. In ten minutes, open up on him to cover our crossing." Staring up at me all doe-eyed and trusting. "You know, Private, it's customary to acknowledge an order from your commanding officer." Poundcake nods. I try again: "With a 'yes, sir.'" He nods again. "Like, out loud. With words." Another nod. Okay, at least I tried. — Rick Yancey