Espoused Theory Quotes & Sayings

A woman's life revolves in curves of emotions. It is upon lines of intellect that a man's life progresses. — Oscar Wilde

There can only be a need for forgiveness when first there is blame.
And there can only be blame, when first there is misunderstanding. — Mike Dooley

I mean if you draw you like drawing, it's er, an activity you do all the time actually. — David Hockney

One of the dangers about net-net investing is that if you buy a net-net that begins to lose money your net-net goes down and your capacity to be able to make a profit becomes less secure. So the trick is not necessarily to predict what the earnings are going to be but to have a clear conviction that the company isn't going bust and that your margin of safety will remain intact over time. — Peter Cundill

I am very proud of the critical role West Virginians play in providing energy to our nation. — Joe Manchin

The sky above us is something we have very little control of, and the space beyond is something we don't completely understand. — Morena Baccarin

Mexico is a safe, as well as a beautiful and warmly gracious, place to visit. — Margaret Chan

I do not think very highly of Madame D'Arblay's books. The style is so strutting. She does so stalk about on Dr. Johnson's old stilts. — Mary Russell Mitford

Whenever God touches sin it is independence that is touched, an that awakens resentment in the human heart. Independence must be blasted clean out, there must be no such thing left, only freedom which is very different. Freedom is the ability not to insist on my rights, but to see that God gets his — Oswald Chambers

Huts they made then, and fire, and skins for clothing, And a woman yielded to one man in wedlock ... Common, to see the offspring they had made; The human race began to mellow then. Because of fire their shivering forms no longer Could bear the cold beneath the covering sky. — Lucretius

My thinking changes all the time. People may read an interview I gave a year before and assume that's who I still am. But usually I've changed altogether. — Takeshi Kaneshiro

My dream is for Malawi to be poverty-free, and I intend to eradicate poverty through economic growth and wealth creation. — Joyce Banda

Your Brain on drugs is a terrible sight, but Mr Tulip was living proof of the fact that so was Your Brain on a a cocktail of horse liniment, sherbet, and powdered water-retention pills. — Terry Pratchett

Let somebody prove friendship which time and space cannot jolt, and then accept the love. Don't accept the love first and then find the friendship; it will never come. You have lost the game. — Harbhajan Singh Yogi

People think that tests only come in the form of hardships. Allah also tests us with ease, it's often in the test of ease that we fail most. — Yasmin Mogahed