Consumerist Ralph Quotes & Sayings

What preoccupies us, then, is not God as a fact of nature, but as a fabrication useful for a God-fearing society. God himself becomes not a power but an image. — Daniel J. Boorstin

The particular aspect of history which both attracts and benefits its readers is the examination of causes and the capacity, which is the reward of this study, to decide in each case the best policy to follow. Now in all political situations we must understand that the principle factor which makes for success or failure is the form of a state's constitution: it is from this source, as if from a fountainhead, that all designs and plans of action not only originate but reach their fulfillment. — Polybius

He could solve this, Vimes told himself. Everything he needed was there, if only he asked the right questions and thought the right way. But — Terry Pratchett

No one can ask honestly or hopefully to be delivered from temptation unless he has himself honestly and firmly determined to do the best he can to keep out of it. — John Ruskin

Flesh gets its food, its sex, its sleep and is satisfied. But the mind is never satisfied. — Marty Rubin

I wish I had been more mature. I wish I had handled the immediate aftermath of the accident involving my family better. — Joe Biden

If one imitates the upright, one becomes upright. If one imitates the crooked, one becomes crooked. — Christie Watson

After all this time questioning whether I could trust myself, my instinct had proven right - I'd found a path in pathless woods. — Aspen Matis

Then came the Boris Vallejo virtual reality mindfucks. — Robert Guffey