Be Careful Of The Company You Keep Quotes & Sayings

I used to say that, as Solicitor General, I made three arguments of every case. First came the one that I planned-as I thought, logical, coherent, complete. Second was the one actually presented-interrupted, incoherent, disjointed, disappointing. The third was the utterly devastating argument that I thought of after going to bed that night. — Robert H. Jackson

There is seemingly no biological benefit to acting with conscience; if there were, only moral individuals would survive and procreate. Sadly, we know that's not true. The benefit of conscience is that you won't suffer guilt (private) or shame (public), and that by your own self-imposed definition, you are a moral human, a special kind of animal who takes unique pride in elevating him/herself above the termites. — Laura Schlessinger

Rehearsals are set up so that you find out all the nuances about your character. You never want to beat yourself up. It's about finding the right direction, and most of the time, the right direction is not what you think is the right direction. That's why the director's there: to guide you there. — Djimon Hounsou

Don't drop me." I cling tighter and press myself up against him a little more. "Never." There's so much confidence and assurance in his voice. "I have you. You're as secure as can be. — Susan Ee

You got to be careful of the company you keep. — Dave Chappelle

I wondered vaguely if this was when it would end, whether I would pull up tonight's darkness like a quilt and be dead and at peace evermore. — William Manchester

I think that Hiphop should be a pulpit for the people. — Slick Rick

We should be as careful of the books we read, as of the company we keep. The dead very often have more power than the living. — Tryon Edwards

Imagine a legal immigration system that welcomes and celebrates those who come to achieve the American dream. — Ted Cruz

Be as careful of the books you read, as of the company you keep; for your habits and character will be as much influenced by the former as the latter. — Paxton Hood

We do not need to be shoemakers to know if our shoes fit, and just as little have we any need to be professionals to acquire knowledge of matters of universal interest. — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

One of the problems you have when you read with kids is that once they like something they want you to read it a hundred times. — Norton Juster

They do make love stories for girls with black hearts after all. They go like this. — Jandy Nelson

The necessary incompleteness of even our formal systems of thought demonstrates that there is no nonshifting foundation on which any system rests. All truths - even those that had seemed so certain as to be immune to the very possibility of revision - are essentially manufactured. Indeed the very notion of the objectively true is a socially constructed myth. Our knowing minds are not embedded in truth. Rather the entire notion of truth is embedded in our minds, which are themselves the unwitting lackeys of organizational forms of influence. — Rebecca Goldstein

Protein is to diets what black is to fashion: it makes everyone thinner. — Lou Schuler

But baseball bounced back in the next decade to reclaim its place as the national pastime: new heroes, spirited competition, and booming prosperity gave birth to dreams of expansion, both within the major leagues and around the world. — John Thorn