Ineligible Man Quotes & Sayings

We're living proof that nice guys always finish last. — Matthew Cooper

Numbers serve to discipline rhetoric. Without them it is too easy to follow flights of fancy, to ignore the world as it is and to remold it nearer the heart's desire. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

A shamefaced man makes a bad beggar. — Homer

I try to search for the light, but I know I'll never find it, because there is no light in darkness. — Claire Contreras

The problem with marriage - or may be its strength - was that it spanned a distance, and you were never the same person you started out being. If you were lucky, you could still recognize each other years later. — Jodi Picoult

One hundred years ago, if someone said, 'damn,' people would take notice. Now, you can say almost anything. Secrets are the same way. Once upon a time when a secret was revealed, people paid an enormous amount of attention to it. — Paul Levinson

The Legislature, which was elected under the Constitution framed and supported by colored men, declared that a man having more than an eighth of African blood in his veins was ineligible to office or a seat in the Legislature of the State of Georgia. — Hiram Rhodes Revels

rang with proficiency — Kia Heavey

Now The Head Lines


How do you like your truth?
Gently spoken on breakfast TV
By a man and a woman who sit comfortably
Saying riots, and murder, when will it end?
As they struggle to act as if they are good friends.

How do you like your truth?
Bite-sized in sound bites cut easy to chew, With a talking head saying the victim's like you
And when you've digested the horrors you've seen
You find good, you find evil, and no in-between.

How do you like your truth?
Fantastic, sensational, printed in bold,
Today it's exclusive, tomorrow it's old,
All on the surface with nothin too deep
With a story about animals to help you to sleep

How do you like your youth?
From perfect families with parents thet care,
Or in perfect families but still in despair,
Ten out of ten parents say they'd not choose
To have bad kids like those in the news. — Benjamin Zephaniah

I remind you that no man who makes disparaging remarks concerning those of another race can consider himself a true disciple of Christ," said President Hinckley. "How can any man holding the Melchizedek Priesthood arrogantly assume that he is eligible for the priesthood whereas another who lives a righteous life but whose skin is of a different color, is ineligible? — Gordon B. Hinckley

You want this so badly - this second chance, this chance at real redemption - that you can't see the truth." "What — Harlan Coben

Luck is of little moment to the great general, for it is under the control of his intellect and his judgment. — Livy

I'm glad we're sitting here now. Even if it does smell like a grandma convention. — Leanne Hall

If you do right, everything will come out right. — Wolfman Jack