Deposing Opposing Quotes & Sayings

Your DNA wants to put its imprint on the entire human race, like the Nike Corporation. — Dave Barry

We are only ever pretending to ourselves, never to other people ... — Jose Saramago

I really do not like auditioning ... it's hard because you never know what you're going to walk into in a room. — Sterling Beaumon

I cannot be bound to the confines of your rules. I am the exception to them. — Truth Devour

Use your enemy's arrows for firewood. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Our spiritual purpose is to overcome both sin and the desire to sin, both the taint and the tyranny of sin. Prophets throughout the ages have emphasized the dual requirements of (1) avoiding and overcoming bad and (2) doing good and becoming better...it is possible for us to have clean hands but not have a pure heart. Please notice that both clean hands and a pure heart are required to ascend into the hill of the Lord and to stand in His holy place. — David A. Bednar

Healthy debate has been replaced by automatic sensors that eliminate the need for actual talking during a filibuster - a la 'Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.' Robust debate is necessary in a democratic society. Instead, our discourse has been relegated to media spin by expert entertainers. — Douglas Wilder

Freedom alone is not enough without light to read at night, without time or access to water to irrigate your farm, without the ability to catch fish to feed your family. — Nelson Mandela

I think bears and worms aren't very similar ... until you think of gummy. — Demetri Martin

Let our government be like that of the solar system. Let the general government be like the sun and the states the planets, repelled yet attracted, and the whole moving regularly and harmoniously in several orbits. — John Dickinson

A gated community of a historical sort, a fortress of barristers and judges who were also musicians, wine fanciers, would-be writers, fly fishermen and raconteurs. A nest of gossip and expertise, and a delightful garden still haunted by the reasonable spirit of Francis Bacon. She loved it here and never wanted to leave. — Ian McEwan

I fancy that most of those who think at all have done a great deal of their thinking in the first fourteen years. — C.S. Lewis

For me there is wonder in reading. Some stories take my mind down exciting, winding paths it has never been before. — R.J. Snow