Hybridized State Quotes & Sayings

I understand that fictional men aren't real. Not 'really real'. I know this the same way I wonder if my readers are disappointed when they meet me. — Margaret Stohl

Our government makes no sense unless it is founded on a deeply held religious belief - and I don't care what it is. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

There are a lot of things we as individuals can't do much about. We can't solve global warming as individuals, or health care problems, but as individuals, most of us can get our kids reading. We can do that. — James Patterson

Don't tell me it's going to fucking be okay! I am not okay with being that fucker's pinata! — Nenia Campbell

There was a direct correlation between how nervous I was and how many dumb jokes I made. — Ransom Riggs

Always remember what is your own and what is not, and you'll never be troubled. [ — Epictetus

Most of us know intuitively that a score on a personality test, a rank on a standardized assessment, a grade point average, or a rating on a performance review doesn't reflect your, or your child's, or your students', or your employees' abilities. Yet the concept of average as a yardstick for measuring individuals has been so thoroughly ingrained in our minds that we rarely question it seriously. — Todd Rose

In January 1821, Thomas Jefferson wrote John Adams to "encourage a hope that the human mind will some day get back to the freedom it enjoyed 2000 years ago." This wish for a return to the era of philosophy would put Jefferson in the same period as Titus Lucretius Carus, thanks to whose six-volume poem De Rerum Naturum (On the Nature of Things) we have a distillation of the work of the first true materialists: Leucippus, Democritus, and Epicurus. These men concluded that the world was composed of atoms in perpetual motion, and Epicurus, in particular, went on to argue that the gods, if they existed, played no part in human affairs. It followed that events like thunderstorms were natural and not supernatural, that ceremonies of worship and propitiation were a waste of time, and that there was nothing to be feared in death. — Christopher Hitchens

Psychologists are men with nothing in their own minds, searching in the minds of others for an idea-in order to kill it. — Harry Hooton

I've always felt from everyone I talk to that the fans feel like I'm tangible and they can talk to me and they know me. — Hulk Hogan

Personal sophistication never goes out of style. — Steven Cuoco

The more a ruling class is able to assimilate the most prominent men of a ruled class, the more solid and dangerous its rule. — Karl Marx

Good books are never finished but abandoned. — Marc Alan Edelheit