Explication Example Quotes & Sayings

'let's learn and note
The art of politics.
Let's teach you how to miss the boat
And how to drop some bricks,
And how to win the people's vote
And lots of other tricks.
Let's learn to make a speech a day
Upon the T.V. screen,
In which you never never say
Exactly what you mean. — Roald Dahl

Moral evil is its own curse. — Thomas Chalmers

See that you are not what you believe yourself to be. Fight with all the strength at your disposal against the idea that you are nameable and describable. You are not. Refuse to think of this or that. There is no other way out of misery, which you have created for yourself through blind acceptance without investigation. Suffering is a call for inquiry, all pain needs investigation. Don't be lazy to think. — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

I assume most of the characters I play are exactly like me. — Jack Nicholson

I've been lucky enough to have had the luxury of being able to make the picture I've wanted to make each time on my own terms and without compromise. — Dario Argento

One cannot bring up boys to be eagles and then expect them to be sparrows. — Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt

I have purposely presented the land ethic as a product of social evolution because nothing so important as an ethic is ever 'written' ... It evolves in the minds of a thinking community. — Aldo Leopold

Why must love always be accompanied
sooner or later
by sorrow and pain? Why not? Because pure bliss is for pure idiots. — Edward Abbey

Stupidity combined with arrogance and a huge ego will get you a long way. — Chris Lowe

A cult!' Elizabeth gasped. 'Here? In Sweet Valley? But that's impossible! — Francine Pascal

For me, Buddhism is a psychology and a philosophy that provides a means, upayas, for working with the mind. — Joan Halifax

That was the strength of Ellysetta's weave. Bright, unyielding,indefatigable love. Love that did not know surrender. Love that did not understand limitations or even basic self-preservation. Love that would batter itself to death before giving in to defeat. — C.L. Wilson

When I was a little kid, I used to walk miles and miles and miles and miles and miles and miles of railroad tracks. — Pam Houston

People think 'Performance' blew my mind ... my mind was blown long before that. — James Fox