Cocklebur Plant Quotes & Sayings

The real price of every thing, what every thing really costs to the man who wants to acquire it, is the toil and trouble of acquiring it. - Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations, 1776 All our invention and progress seem to result in endowing material forces with intellectual life, and in stultifying human life into a material force. - Karl Marx, speech, 1856 Dreams are not so different from deeds as some may think. All the deeds of men are only dreams at first. And in the end, their deeds dissolve into dreams. - Theodor Herzl, Old New Land, 1902 — Mark Kurlansky

You have the most revolting Florence Nightingale complex,' said Mrs. Smiling.
It is not that at all, and well you know it. On the whole, I dislike my fellow beings; I find them so difficult to understand. But I have a tidy mind and untidy lives irritate me. Also, they are uncivilized. — Stella Gibbons

Only one thing is certain: if pot is legalized, it won't be for our benefit but for the authorities. To have it legalized will also be to lose control of it. — Germaine Greer

Always maintain the attitude of a student. When a person thinks they have finished learning, that is when bitterness and disappointment can set in, as that person will wake up everyday wondering when someone is going to throw a parade in their honour for being so smart. — Nick Offerman

I could get drunk and run around Nashville naked. But I won't because I want to set a good example for my fans. I think they deserve to have a role model. — Taylor Swift

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Stephen King interviews and speeches are incrediable very powerful. — Deyth Banger

But never give your love, my friend, Unto a foolish heart — Robert Hunter

Suspense is very important. Even though this is humor and they're short stories, that theory of building suspense is still there. — Sergio Aragones

Suddenly I had to laugh. It was like realising you definitely need to projectile vomit when you thought you had it under control in some imprisoning form of public space. — Olivia Sudjic

She's my friend."
"Good for you."
"Just my luck," I said. "Finally meet my twin brother and, turns out, he's an ass. — Kelley Armstrong

I can be very loud, when I'm being stupid. — Scott Lynch

I wondered at what point in space the silly, sham blue of the sky turned black. — Sylvia Plath

If you don't have the ambition to be the very best at what you do, then what's the point? If you aim for greatness but keep missing -- fine. At least you had the guts to aim. There's honour in failing that way. But there's nothing honourable about settling for mediocrity. — Benjamin Wood

There is one mind common to all individual men. Every man is an inlet to the same and to all of the same. He that is once admitted to the right of reason is made a freeman of the whole estate. What Plato has thought, he may think; what a saint has felt, he may feel; what at any time has befallen any man, he can understand. Who hath access to this universal mind is a party to all that is or can be done, for this is the only and sovereign agent. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Choose to be the best version of you. — Truth Devour