Basic Rudiments Quotes & Sayings

When a woman tries on clothing from her closet that feels tight, she will assume she has gained weight. When a man tries something from his closet that feels tight, he will assume the clothing has shrunk. — Rita Rudner

Foolish tongues will always wag, ma'am, but people of goodwill ignore them. — Jennifer Paynter

I'd like men to think about evolving into something more sophisticated, more seductive. To explore the possibility of an entirely new masculinity. — Hedi Slimane

Many a modern preacher is far less concerned with preaching Christ and Him crucified than he is with his popularity with his congregation. A want of intellectual backbone makes him straddle the ox of truth and the ass of nonsense. Bending the knee to the mob rather than God would probably make them scruple at ever playing the role of John the Baptist before a modern Herod. The acids of modernity are eating away the fossils of orthodoxy. — Fulton J. Sheen

I add things, cross them off, then add a whole other bunch and cross them off, too. — Haruki Murakami

Love is a madness. Love is Failer - Durzo Blint — Brent Weeks

I can't stand men crying. It's wrong, isn't it? Their faces aren't made for it, they kind of crumple; it's painful to watch. — Rachel Ward

Lasting peace is sought, it is essential to adopt international measures to improve the lot of the masses. The welfare of the entire human race must replace hunger and oppression. People of the world must be taught to give up envy, avarice and rancour. — Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

How does one keep from "growing old inside"? Surely only in community. The only way to make friends with time is to stay friends with people ... Taking community seriously not only gives us the companionship we need, it also relieves us of the notion that we are indispensable. — Robert McAfee Brown

Sometimes you must go against the wheel's turn. — Ursula K. Le Guin