Baffling Def Quotes & Sayings

The parent can change his mind in the context of respectful appeal, but not in the presence of blatant rebellion. — Tedd Tripp

No justification of virtue will enable a man to be virtuous. Without the aid of trained emotions the intellect is powerless against the animal organism. I had sooner play cards against a man who was quite skeptical about ethics, but bred to believe that 'a gentleman does not cheat', than against an irreproachable moral philosopher who had been brought up among sharpers. — C.S. Lewis

When I'm not writing, I can't make sense of out anything. I feel the need to make some sense and find some order, and writing fiction is the only way I've found that seems to begin to do that. — Alice McDermott

Jazz translates the moment into a sense of inspiration for not only the musicians but for the listeners. — Herbie Hancock

Two half truths do not make a truth. — Arthur Koestler

If they understand, which I believe they really are sensing, that the alternative the Republicans have been offering is to repeal what we've done, to go back to Bush policies - and if you asked the public what would you prefer, Bush economic policies or Obama economic policies, they take and prefer Obama economic policies. — Carl Levin

If sports are the toy department of life, then the NFL is the FAO Schwartz of sports. — Margaret Mead

It's hard to overestimate how much the perception of the quality of the V.C. firm you're with matters - the signal it sends to other V.C.s, to potential employees, to customers, to the tech press. It's like where you went to college. — Stewart Butterfield

A person who has no secrets is a liar. We always fold ourselves away from others just enough to preserve a secret or two, something that we cannot share without destroying our inner landscape. — Anne Roiphe