Defectively Means Quotes & Sayings

Things need shaking up when American women feel endangered even as Yosemite bears lumber around belching, their eyes glazed with surfeit, their pelts covered in Oreo crumbs. — Sandra Tsing Loh

My dad does watch my work now. My parents watch everything I'm on. I think the first time they saw something was 'Captain America,' and he called me, and he was so elated. — Kenneth Choi

In a country ruled by laws, it seemed to me that nothing was more important than removing politics from the process of choosing judges. During previous administrations in California, governors had often handed out judgeships to friends and cronies like prizes at a company picnic. Not only had this produced a lot of inferior judges, it had placed a number of partisans on the bench who believed that putting on the black robes of a judge gave them a license to rewrite the laws. I wanted judges who would interpret the Constitution, not rewrite it. — Ronald Reagan

I have a photograph of myself when I was 2 years of age, and I don't recognize the person in the photograph. She doesn't look anything like me, and I can't find any trace of her in me physically. And yet I remember her very, very well - even her anxiety. — Jamaica Kincaid

I think women are really good at making friends and not good at networking. Men are good at networking and not necessarily making friends. That's a gross generalization, but I think it holds in many ways. — Madeleine Albright

Marijuana is an addictive drug which produces in its users insanity, criminality, and death. — Harry J. Anslinger

I've got tremendous respect for different cultures, for the food and everything. — Ian Rush

Also,I loathe it when you refer to me as dude Eric Sinclair to Betsy — MaryJanice Davidson

To dispose a soul to action we must upset its equilibrium. — Eric Hoffer

Let's fly away and live forever — Orson Scott Card

I am interested in the unknown, and the only path to the unknown is through breaking barriers, an often painful process. — Diana Nyad

I have no fear
to burn my mouth and throat
I'm ready to drink every flame and more. — Rumi

Prepare yourselves mentally. A mission requires a great deal of mental preparation. You must memorize missionary discussions, memorize scriptures, and oftentimes learn a new language. The discipline to do this is learned in your early years. Establish now the daily practice of reading the scriptures ten to fifteen minutes each day. If you do so, by the time you reach the mission field, you will have read all four of the standard works. I urge you to read particularly the Book of Mormon so that you can testify of its truthfulness as the Lord has directed. — Ezra Taft Benson

Ransomed men need no longer pause in fear to enter the Holy of Holies. God wills that we should push on into His presence and live our whole life there. — A.W. Tozer

The spinning wheel is not meant to oust a single man or woman from his or her occupation. — Mahatma Gandhi