Filosofic Quotes & Sayings

This is a free country, and nobody should be criticized for their political beliefs. We're all allowed to have our opinions. — Shannen Doherty

I knew exactly what I was, and there was no hang-up with me. None whatsoever. The fact that the pigment of my skin maybe being lighter brown than other people of my race, maybe some of them, but you know our race has all colors. — Billy Eckstine

I was brought up in an era when thrift was still considered a virtue. — J. Paul Getty

After 25 quarters of so-called recovery under Obama, it has increased a total of only 14.3 percent. Compare this to earlier periods. After the JFK tax cuts of the early 1960s, the economy grew in total by roughly 40 percent. After the Reagan tax cuts of the 1980s, the economy grew by a total of 34 percent. — Lawrence Kudlow

And, before science had caught up with the legend, the legend had swallowed science and everything. — Richard Matheson

For truth is strong next to the Almighty. She needs no policies or stratagems or licensings to make her victorious. These are the shifts and the defences that error uses against her power. — John Milton

But have you ever felt that something was so good it couldn't possibly last? — Kevin D. Mitnick

It is my prayer, it is my longing, that we may pass from this life together - a longing which shall never perish from the earth, but shall have place in the heart of every wife that loves, until the end of time; and it shall be called by my name. But if one of us must go first, it is my prayer that it shall be I; for he is strong, I am weak, I am not so necessary to him as he is to me - life without him would not be life; how could I endure it? This prayer is also immortal, and will not cease from being offered up while my race continues. I am the first wife; and in the last wife I shall be repeated. — Mark Twain

(Speaking about ponies engaging in a game of running around and chasing a ball with "imaginary riders")
Along with everything else about it, it seemed to be a parable for life. Going forwards and backwards and round in circles, striving ever forward only to have to run like crazy backwards to get the ball again, realizing that your enemy is after the same goal and you're actually helping him toward it and getting roughed up and possibly killed while you're at it but still feeling the comradeship of being in the game all together. — Susan Trott

Any change in attitude changes the way one sees the world, and this in turn changes the way one acts. — David Steindl-Rast

All my writing, I always do it in the studio, 'cause everything sounds good. The piano's there, the keyboards; if you want to put strings on something ... And everything sounds good when it's in the cans; it sounds killer. — Zakk Wylde

Instead of following her original plan to have an abortion, she and Fode had decided to conduct a radical social experiment they called Having the Baby, and because of the outcome of that experiment, she had dropped out of school. — Ann Patchett

I'm not the kind of person who would want to go into a studio and manage other people and listen to the phone ringing. That's alien to me. — Rachel Kushner