Dramatically Twisty Quotes & Sayings

War is a man's game ... the killing machine has a gender and it is male. — Virginia Woolf

Therapists are less likely to perceive a black woman as sad; instead they see her as angry or anxious. — Melissa V. Harris-Perry

One of the good things that come of a true marriage is, that there is one face on which changes come without your seeing them; or rather there is one face which you can still see the same, through all the shadows which years have gathered upon it. — George MacDonald

Philosophers have long conceded, however, that every man has two educators: 'that which is given to him, and the other that which he gives himself. Of the two kinds the latter is by far the more desirable. Indeed all that is most worthy in man he must work out and conquer for himself. It is that which constitutes our real and best nourishment. What we are merely taught seldom nourishes the mind like that which we teach ourselves. — Carter G. Woodson

I am sure that few successful men are so-called 'natural geniuses.' — Charles M. Schwab

I thought I saw Anny smiling. I try to refresh my memory: I need to feel all the tenderness that Anny inspires; it is there, this tenderness, it is near me, only asking to be born. But the smile does not return: it is finished. I remain dry and empty. — Jean-Paul Sartre

All the greatest blessings create anxiety, and Fortune is never less to be trusted than when it is fairest. — Seneca.

I think every once in a while I feel the need to break my medium ... if I have been doing a very large painting I like to drop into something in small scale. It is a challenge to go into this size. It is just to hold my own interest, and then each media has its own conditions. — Lee Krasner

False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil. — Socrates

I'm doing a little bit of acting, but I can't really say it's going to be a career or even that I'm really suited to it. It's a whole other craft you have to study and be passionate about. — Sascha Radetsky

Like the sun, a teacher enlightens a mind with his love, warmth, and light. — Debasish Mridha

When you take a job, you don't just accept the pats on the back. You have to accept the kicks in the pants. — Joe Torre

Hunger does not breed reform; it breeds madness and all the distemper's that make an ordered life impossible. — Woodrow Wilson

It might stand as the surest marker of the difference between childhood and age: A month was once forever, and now it's just a month. Or less. One — Joseph Bottum