Cirrocumulus Quotes & Sayings

People don't like to think of themselves as sinful. They don't want to believe that they are selfish, evil people who would act much worse if unrestrained by society ... Because they believe they act from pure motives, many people live by their own moral code and can always justify their behavior. When that strategy fails they can always think of someone worse than themselves. — Douglas Beaumont

When you get married, your loyalty, first and foremost, is to your spouse, and to the family that you create together. — Phil McGraw

Of religion I know nothing
at least, in its favor. — Lord Byron

I'm so greedy, I'm hungry, I'm young. — Lil' Wayne

You have to try the impossible to achieve the possible — Hermann Hesse

May the flop be with you. — Doyle Brunson

Remembrance, like a candle, burns brightest at Christmastime. — Charles Dickens

That psychology was grounded in two basic rules: First, find a simple and obvious cue. Second, clearly define the rewards. — Charles Duhigg

Inflation is a form of hidden taxation which it is almost impossible to measure. — John J. Beckley

History teacher Bob Alston's expertise late not in his sweeping knowledge of the topic but in his ability to pick after a tumble, to get a fix on what he does not know, and to generate a roadmap to guide his new learning. He was an expert at cultivating puzzlement it was Alston's ability to stand back from first impressions, to question his quick leaps of mind, to keep track of his questions that together pointed him in the direction of new learning. — Sam Wineburg

If I had free will, I would choose to be funnier. — Stephen Cave

Sometimes, I have to really monitor myself, but the only monitoring job I really do on myself on stage is, Is this truthful? Is this truthful? Is this truthful? Ideally, I send it in a flow of truth. — Alex Ebert

The one who decides who goes ahead has the upper hand, regardless of who gets to go. This is why many women do not feel empowered by such privileges as having doors held open for them. The advantage of going first through the door is less salient to them than the disadvantage of being granted the right to walk through a door by someone who is framed, by his magnanimous gesture, as the arbiter of the right-of-way. — Deborah Tannen

We are tired of fighting, we are tired of being courageous, we are
tired of winning, we are tired of defeating our enemies, we want that
we will be able to live in an entirely different environment of
relations with our enemies. — Ehud Olmert

The American people are tired of the out-of-control spending, and they want Washington to get their act in order and stop spending money we don't have. — Jim Jordan