Instrument Thesis Quotes & Sayings

I'm tired of chasing people. — Robert Kennedy

Well, I can admire stubbornness in a man. There is little to a man who's too easily biddable. — Robert Jordan

The great critic ... must be a philosopher, for from philosophy he will learn serenity, impartiality, and the transitoriness of human things. — W. Somerset Maugham

Football is pretty much played 16 times a year, where training is kind of a year-round thing. — Troy Polamalu

It is not designed that the road should be made too smooth for us here upon earth. — Jane Porter

Straight men just can't imagine the bliss of being in a relationship with someone who finds farting as funny as they do. — Graham Norton

Programs like food stamps, unemployment insurance, Medicaid, and job retraining help Americans get back on their feet when they are down and out and laid off through no fault of their own. — Hank Johnson

Shame about being hurt often has its origin in childhood. And it is then that many of us first learn that it is a virtue to be silent about pain. ... As more people have found the courage to break through shame and speak about woundedness in their lives, we are now subjected to a mean-spirited cultural response, where all talk of woundedness is mocked. The belittling of anyone's attempt to make a context within which they were wounded, were made a victim, is a form of shaming. — Bell Hooks

Poetry puts language in a state of emergence, in which life becomes manifest through its vivacity. These linguistic impulses, which stand out from the ordinary rank of pragmatic language, are miniatures of the vital impulse. A micro-Bergsonism that abandoned the thesis of language-as-instrument in favor of the thesis of language-as-reality would find in poetry numerous documents of the intense life of language. — Gaston Bachelard

Clean hands, Sansa. Whatever you do, make certain your hands are clean. — George R R Martin

Why would you live your life worrying about something that's not going to happen? — Bill Parcells

Do not look only at yourself, and you will see much. Do not justify yourself, and you will be distinguished. Do not brag, and you will have merit. Do not be prideful, and your work will endure. — Laozi

Crime? I was in trouble because a man had said I was not clean there. He was lying. He only said that because he was not clean there and I told him we should shower before we fucked. — Chris Bohjalian

It's sad that children cannot know their parents when they were younger; when they were loving, courting, and being nice to one another. By the time children are old enough to observe, the romance has all too often faded or gone underground. — Virginia Satir

If we're going to have debates, let's have real debates. — Jim Lehrer

Honey, anything can be hard - having a husband gone all the time, or underfoot all the time, or no husband, or ... whatever. The answer is to build a life around those things. — Cindy Woodsmall