Fraternizing Policy Quotes & Sayings

Heap up great wealth in your house, if you wish, and live as a tyrant, but, if the enjoyment of these things be lacking, I would not buy the rest for the shadow of smoke as against happiness. — Sophocles

Look at everything as though you were seeing it either first time or last time. — Betty Smith

Sometimes something as simple as going for a 20-minute jog on any given day is important. Keeps your body moving and legs from getting stiffened up from doing high-intensity workouts during the week. — Jozy Altidore

I moved to MIT from Stanford in 1984 to teach, and became the founding director of MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab. — Rodney Brooks

Raw Living: Picking blackberries, beneath late afternoon sun; a sunset reminiscent of watermelon sangria, as the scent of honeysuckle accosts me and the ducks waddle into the lake. Thanking Mama Nature for her abundance. Loving this candied-sweet southern life. — Brandi L. Bates

So few men are really worth knowing, that it seems a shameful waste to let an anthropoid prejudice stand in the way of free association with one who is. — H.L. Mencken

Don't buy a single vote more than necessary. I'll be damned if I'm going to pay for a landslide. — Joseph P. Kennedy

I use Spam Arrest because of the amount of junk mail I get. Any legitimate person who wants to send me a message has to jump through hoops before they can be added to my opt-in list. — Kevin Mitnick

The composition of each epoch depends upon the way the frequented roads are frequented. — Gertrude Stein

Without the book business it would be difficult or impossible for true books to find their true readers and without that solitary (and potentially subversive) alone with a book the whole razzmatazz of prizes, banquets, television spectaculars, bestseller lists, even literature courses, editors and authors, are all worthless. Unless a book finds lovers among those solitary readers, it will not live ... or live for long. — John McGahern

How can we lose when we're so sincere? — Charles M. Schulz

Ruri: Is it possible that Shuichiro gets more cuddly every day?
Hari: Indubitably ... — CLAMP

It seemed like a nice neighborhood to have bad habits in. — Raymond Chandler

The creatures of human myth flourish in Ourea. Trees are this world's skyscrapers. Magic its currency. And while the rest of Earth forgot what it means to dream big, Ourea kept alive its wonder. — S.M. Boyce

We're dancing from here, from inside, not from outside. You could look at anybody throwing their leg and kick their leg up and a million pirouettes and do all kinds of tricks and stuff like that. But that's not what dance is really about. — Judith Jamison