Inculcations Quotes & Sayings

If you have a choice of two things and can't decide, take both. — Gregory Corso

I am watching the stars, admiring their complex trajectories through space and time. I am trying to give a name to the force that set them in motion. — Alan Moore

Racial discrimination in elections in Texas is no mere historical artifact. To the contrary, Texas has been found in violation of the Voting Rights Act in every redistricting cycle from and after 1970. — Ruth Bader Ginsburg

If you don't," she said sweetly, "I'll tell my father you made improper advances to me. He'll have the skin flayed off your back. — Diana Gabaldon

We can make a difference and have fun doing it — Wavy Gravy

An honest heart being the first blessing, a knowing head is the second. — Thomas Jefferson

No government can continue good but under the control of the people; and ... their minds are to be informed by education what is right and what wrong; to be encouraged in habits of virtue and to be deterred from those of vice ... These are the inculcations necessary to render the people a sure basis for the structure and order of government. — Thomas Jefferson

Seek not that your sons and your daughters should not see visions, should not dream dreams; seek that they should see true visions, that they should dream noble dreams. Such out-going of the imagination is one with aspiration, and will do more to elevate above what is low and vile than all possible inculcations of morality. — George MacDonald

Let us take the air, in a tobacco trance,
Admire the moments
Discuss the late events,
Correct our watches by the public clocks.
Then sit for half an hour and drink our bocks. — T. S. Eliot

My father's moral inculcations were at all times mainly those of the Socratici viri; justice, temperance (to which he gave a very extended application), veracity, perseverance, readiness to encounter pain and especially labour, regard for the public good; estimation of persons according to their merits, and of things according to their intrinsic usefulness; a life of exertion, in contradiction to one of self-indulgent sloth. These and other moralities he conveyed in brief sentences, uttered as occasion arose, of grave exhortation, or stern reprobation and contempt. — John Stuart Mill

I prefer liquor store robbers with hungry kids to companies that locate offshore to avoid U.S. taxes. — Warren Buffett