Fleeings Quotes & Sayings

At any given moment, millions of systems are at work all around us. The blood pumping through our veins. The planets. The food chain. They're all super-specific systems linked to one another. Some of the systems occur organically as a greater part of the universe, like surprises and sunsets. But others are just made-up. Like, why is the school day eight hours long? And why is it that, even though I'm the smartest person in the world, I can't vote? The arbitrariness of it all is the thing that drives me nuts. — Gabby Rivera

People have different emotional levels. Especially when you're young. — Bob Dylan

The person who wishes to attain human perfection should study logic first, next mathematics, then physics, and, lastly, metaphysics. — Maimonides

When I write, I tend to twist my hair. Something for my small mind to do, I guess. — Maya Angelou

I'm just worried about the unintended consequences of the laws. — Mary Katharine Ham

I hated childhood, and spent it sitting behind a book waiting for adulthood to arrive. — Anne Tyler

God's blessing is like a coin that has two sides, favor and trials. — Sunday Adelaja

Sometimes societies die and putrefy long before they are pronounced dead, and sometimes men die of corruption long before they have taken to their deathbeds. — Robert Payne

The vital consideration of incentives is almost systematically overlooked in the proposals of agitators for more and bigger government welfare schemes. We should all be concerned about the plight of the poor and unfortunate. But the hard two-part question that any plan for relieving poverty must answer is: How can we mitigate the penalties of failure and misfortune without undermining the incentives to effort and success. — Henry Hazlitt

Strong women wear their pain like stilettos. No matter how much it hurts, all you see is the beauty of it. — Harriet Morgan