Cowboy Cliches Quotes & Sayings

Your spring self is anxious to shed your winter mistakes. — Patrick Trotti

The majority of people imagine a chess master as being a townsman who passes his life in an atmosphere of smoke and play in cafes and clubs: a neurasthenic individual, whose nerves and brains are continually working at tension: a one-sided person who has given up his whole soul to chess. — Richard Reti

O constancy, be strong upon my side,
Set a huge mountain 'tween my heart and tongue!
I have a man's mind, but a woman's might. — William Shakespeare

Reason unites us, not only with our contemporaries, but with men who lived two thousand years before us, and with those who will live after us. — Leo Tolstoy

Archaeologists have made discoveries that challenge fundamental traditions of Judaism as well as those of Christianity and Islam. — Stephen Kinzer

My favorite 'Mister Rogers' episodes were always the ones where Mr. Rogers would go into the community. — Felicia Day

What a pity that men couldn't find such satisfactions without killing so many of their fellows. — Mary Jo Putney

The only really safe thing to do is to write a diary of where you've been, what time you went to bed, what you ate. If I wrote honestly about everything I think it'd be a disaster. It would cause a lot of trouble. — Ellie Goulding

President Obama is committed to Hispanics and migrants. — Vicente Fox

PRACTICE OF THE Art of Peace enables you to rise above praise or blame, and it frees you from attachment to this and that. — Morihei Ueshiba

Indeed, a symptom of post-Holocaust trauma is that normative assumptions about the human species are questioned more than ever. Can human nature still be trusted? The breach of civilized values was too great - and in a nation that had produced so many significant philosophers, scientists, scholars, and artists. The intellectual shock - a secondary trauma, as it were - is not only that it happened but also that it happened with only scattered pockets of resistance and even a degree of cooperation among the cultured classes. — Jeffrey C. Alexander

When you play guard, you're not going to block a lot of shots. Inside, you're going to block shots. — Oscar Robertson

Ironclads and Maxim guns must be the ultimate arbiters of metaphysical truth. — Bertrand Russell

The Buddhist ideal of awakening implies that we can sever our links with our evolutionary past. We can raise ourselves from the sleep in which other animals pass their lives. Our illusions dissolved, we need no longer suffer. This is only another doctrine of salvation, subtler than that of the Christians, but no different from Christianity in its goal of leaving our animal inheritance behind.
But the idea that we can rid ourselves of animal illusion is the greatest illusion of all. meditation may give us a fresher view of things but cannot uncover them as they are in themselves. — John Gray

Fage does not make great yogurt. — Hamdi Ulukaya