Gibbering Orb Quotes & Sayings

-Climb out of mediocrity, it has no integrity. Climb out of imitation it is a limitation. Climb higher than copying, it is double standard. Come up to be original — Ikechukwu Joseph

Every American expects and deserves clean air, and then we act on that belief, then we will set an example for the rest of the world to follow. — George H. W. Bush

As soft wax is apt to take the stamp of the seal, so are the minds of young children to receive the instruction imprinted on them. — Plutarch

The living is not perfect because it is liable to change; the dead is not perfect because it does not live. — Ludwig Von Mises

Be glad they didn't take you," I told him. "You were better off."
"I doubt that."
"I don't. You don't know what it's like, growing up around a bunch of people who treat you like an inferior, who see you only as a commodity to be used, who couldn't give a shit about you unless you're benefitting them in some way. . . ." I stopped, biting my lip. "You'd have tried to fit in, done your best to learn about them, to be one of them. But it would never have worked. You'd have always felt like what you were - an outsider. Because you're not like them. You're not . . . like anybody."
I looked up to see his face swimming in front of me.
"Be glad they didn't take you!"
"Someone in your life was stupid, too," he told me. And then he kissed me. — Karen Chance

Once upon a time, something happened, and it was better than something not happening. The end. — Dan Harmon

Each day is a day of decision. — Russell M. Nelson

Women think with their whole bodies and they see things as a whole more than men do. — Dorothy Day

Golf is a bloodless sport-if you don't count ulcers. — Dick Schaap

Pride makes a god of self, covetousness makes a god of money, sensuality makes a god of the belly; whatever is esteemed or loved, feared or served, delighted in or depended on, more than God, that (whatever it is) we do in effect make a god of. — Matthew Henry

Drug warriors' staunch opposition to needle exchanges to prevent the spread of HIV in addicts delayed the programs' widespread introduction in most states for years. A federal ban on funding for these programs wasn't lifted until 2009. Contrast this with what happened in the U.K. At the peak of the AIDS epidemic in the mid-1990s, the HIV infection rate in IV drug users in the U.K. was about 1%. In New York City, the American epicenter, that figure was 50%. The British had introduced widespread needle exchange in 1986. That country had no heterosexual AIDS epidemic. — Maia Szalavitz

Time is now measured from the night when death stole from me, took my battered heart, and left me behind. — Nicole Reed

'Fault' means failure to meet a standard. Whose? Mine. — Hugh Prather

Wouldn't it be better if we could be kinder, but firmer? — Brene Brown