Extraneous Variable Quotes & Sayings

It may be from some moral obliquity in myself, or from some strange disease; but for me, and I should think too for every human being in whose breast a human heart is beating, to know that one single creature is in that dreadful place would make a hell of heaven itself. And they have hearts in heaven, for they love there. — James Anthony Froude

By nature, I'm an optimistic person. No one believes it, but I am. — Larry Kramer

If you can become more motivated, more focused, better at setting goals and making good decisions, then you're a long way down the path to becoming more productive. — Charles Duhigg

All my laurels you have riven away, and my roses; yet in spite of you, there is one crown I bear away with me ... One thing without stain, unspotted from the world, in spite of doom mine own! And that is ... my white plume. — Edmond Rostand

Karate begins and ends with courtesy. — Gichin Funakoshi

Photographs are believed more than words; thus they can be used persuasively to show people who have never taken the trouble to look what is there. — Eliot Porter

It is a tragedy of the first magnitude that millions of people have ceased to use their hands as hands. Nature has bestowed upon us this great gift which is our hands. If the craze for machinery method continues, it is highly likely that a time will come when we shall be so incapacitated and weak that we shall begin to curse ourselves for having forgotten the use of the living machines given to us by God. — Mahatma Gandhi

If you socialize people to care about each other and care about relationships, they tend to be much less violent and tend to think about the consequences of their actions more. — Meda Chesney-Lind

Hi,' I said, and I hugged her. I missed her more now that I actually had her in my arms than when I hadn't. — Maggie Stiefvater

Sounds of daily life are musical. I try to absorb the intricacies of sounds as if I were listening to music. — Tom Harrell

You know, if you look back in the 1930s, the money went to infrastructure. The bridges, the municipal buildings, the roads, those were all built with stimulus money spent on infrastructure. This stimulus bill has fundamentally gone, started out with a $500 rebate check, remember. That went to buy flat-screen TVs made in China. — Michael Bloomberg

People get really caught up in their own trips. — Max Cannon

What is worrisome about that is the U.S. standard of living. I think it is very difficult to envision our standard of living being preserved if we are in an economy where all people do is flip hamburgers, wait on people in stores, and sue each other. It's not much of a basis for an economy. — Wilbur Ross

Do they ever ask pirates to come and speak to you at your school's career day?'
'No,' admitted Derek. 'They usually just have accountants come and tell us how accountancy is really exciting.'
'They let people come and lie to you?' asked Nanny Piggins. 'Your headmaster is a very immoral man. — R.A. Spratt

Google is a private company. It has the capacity to utilize its massive power for whatever political agenda it chooses. But for it to pretend to be an advocate for Internet freedom while simultaneously disadvantaging messages it finds politically incorrect is deeply hypocritical. — Ben Shapiro