Evenhanded Def Quotes & Sayings

Soviet-style communism failed, not because it was intrinsically evil, but because it was flawed. It allowed too few people to usurp too much power. Twenty-first century market capitalism, American-style, will fail for the same reasons. Both are edifices constructed by human intelligence, undone by human nature. — Arundhati Roy

Whenever you are being praised, remember it is not you who is being praised but Christ, to whom all praise belongs. — Martin Luther

I need a new friend. I need a friend, period. Not a true friend, nothing close or share clothes or sleepover giggle giggle yak yak. Just a pseudo-friend, disposable friend. Friend as accessory. Just so I don't feel or look so stupid. — Laurie Halse Anderson

One day, God said 'Let there be prey.' And he created pigeons, rabbits, lambs and Gene Wilder. — Mel Brooks

Imagine how great you will feel when you know your partner loves all of you, all the time. The good, the bad, and everything in between! — Arielle Ford

power is the goal of all ambition, — Ian Fleming

Despite the amazing diversity we're blessed with in this country, schools are still in large part segregated because of economic disparity. Sports are one of the few areas where kids are really given the opportunity to interact with those of different races and religions. — Steve Kerr

Combinatorial analysis, in the trivial sense of manipulating binomial and multinomial coefficients, and formally expanding powers of infinite series by applications ad libitum and ad nauseamque of the multinomial theorem, represented the best that academic mathematics could do in the Germany of the late 18th century. — Richard Askey

If I'm on a roll, and I finish a script at 3:00, I'll start another at 3:02. — John Hughes

The best way to begin is to say: Balthus is a painter of whom nothing is known. And now let us have a look at his paintings. — Balthus

The Imperial Service could win a war without coffee, but would prefer not to have to. — Lois McMaster Bujold

His house was perfect, whether you liked food, or sleep, or work, or story-telling, or singing, or just sitting and thinking, best, or a pleasant mixture of them all. — J.R.R. Tolkien

A great pianist doesn't run around the piano or do push ups with his fingers. To be great, he plays the piano ... being a footballer is not about running, push-ups or physical work generally. The best way to be a great footballer is to play. — Jose Mourinho