Black Eyed Suzie Quotes & Sayings

Though whether the mass murder of strangers for one's principles ranks higher in virtue than attacking one's neighbours for the hell of it is a point I'm glad I don't have to settle. — Dorothy Dunnett

We have really lost in our society the sense of the sacredness of life. — Basil Hume

A system where self-employment and self-finance was typical gave way to a system of companies having various business freedoms and enabling institutions. This was the 'great transformation' on which historians and sociologists as well as business commentators were to write volumes. — Edmund Phelps

Faith is the enemy of discovery. — Simon Mawer

Man should develop his physical condition simultaneously with that of his mind. — Joseph Pilates

As a matter of fact, the person who loves everybody and feels at home everywhere is the true hater of mankind. He expects nothing of men, so no form of depravity can outrage him. — Ayn Rand

When you are unhappy, is there anything more maddening than to be told that you should be contented with your lot? — Kathleen Norris

People generally complain that they're overburdened by responsibilities, forgetting that they chose to have those responsibilities. No one makes you work like a dog in order to live in a nice house, put your kids in nice schools, drive a smart car and go on exotic foreign holidays. It's up to you. — Mark Barrowcliffe

Just as our taste in lovers is far more revealing than our choice of friends, the object of an artist's obsession can open up doors to their soul that might otherwise remain shut tight. — Vince Aletti

The whole point of applying mindfulness is that it allows you to catch negative thought patterns before they consume you because it involves a conscious direction of your awareness. — Golden Ink

In effect the people were present through their representatives, and were themselves, step by step and point by point, acting in the conduct of public affairs. No longer merely an ultimate check on government, they were in some sense the government. — Bernard Bailyn

The real love is to love them that hate you, to love your neighbor even though you distrust him. — Mahatma Gandhi

Hammett was the ace performer ... He is said to have lacked heart; yet the story he himself thought the most of [The Glass Key] is the record of a man's devotion to a friend. He was spare, frugal, hard-boiled, but he did over and over again what only the best writers can ever do at all. He wrote scenes that seemed never to have been written before. — Raymond Chandler

I was driven completely by a desire to understand how cells worked. — Randy Schekman