Balking Wikipedia Quotes & Sayings

The more for whom we strive to serve, the greater effectiveness we will have. — R. Buckminster Fuller

I think that purity creates not only a higher level of artistic vision but a purer work ethic. — Nick Offerman

Fom the out set, the War on Terror was sharply different from other U.S. military actions in the strong support it received from American women. Normally, men back military action by 10 to 20 points more than women do. But, after 9/11, women felt more endangered by terror and backed action against the Taliban and Osama bin Laden as strongly as men did. — Dick Morris

If I wanted to be a painter, I might think about trying to be like Van Gogh, or if I was an actor, act like Laurence Olivier. If I was an architect, there's Frank Gehry. But you can't just copy somebody. If you like someone's work, the important thing is to be exposed to everything that person has been exposed to. — Bob Dylan

It had formerly been my endeavor to study all sides of his character: to take the bad with the good; and from the just weighing of both, to form an equitable judgment. Now I saw no bad. The sarcasm that had repelled, the harshness that had startled me once, were only like keen condiments in a choice dish: their presence was pungent, but their absence would be felt as comparatively insipid. — Charlotte Bronte

Don't call me that." She looked down.
I tipped her face back up. "What?"
"Baby."
Shit. I called her baby?
"Why not?" I asked. I was supposed to tell her she'd been hearing things. That grief was making her cuckoo.
"Because I like it. — Cambria Hebert

We are not judged by what we are basically. We are judged by how hard we use what we have been given. Success means nothing to the Lord. — Flannery O'Connor

It is the mark of a gentleman to be moderate in the use of wine. — Athenaeus

I would remind my countrymen that they are to be men first, and Americans only at a late and convenient hour. — Henry David Thoreau

Nothing motivates a great employee more than a mission that's so important that it supersedes everyone's personal ambition. — Ben Horowitz

The Deadheads are doing the dance of life and this I would say is the answer to the atom bomb. — Joseph Campbell