Irreplaceable Girl Quotes & Sayings

The major tragedies in life, there's just no compensation. But the minor ones you can always write about. It's my way of dealing, and it's a heck of a lot cheaper than psychiatrists. The story, you see, will get you through. — Octavia E. Butler

In Our Underachieving Colleges, [Derek] Bok acts as both diagnostician and healer, wielding social-science statistics and professional studies to trace the etiology of today's illnesses and to recommend palliative treatments for what he has discovered. — Donald Kagan

Culture is on the horns of this dilemma: if profound and noble it must remain rare, if common it must become mean. — George Santayana

Doubt is often better than overconfidence, for it leads to inquiry, and inquiry leads to invention. — Hudson Maxim

To be simple is the best thing in the world; to be modest is the next best thing. I am not sure about being quiet. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

I can understand why people would want to stay on the road because you create your own bubble. You almost don't live in the real world. Just to have the things that are with you is fine. — Kylie Minogue

Words are one thing, deeds are quite another. — Ivan Bunin

Spare the rod and spile the child, as the Good Book says. I'm a laying up sin and suffering for us both, — Mark Twain

Today, according to the New York Times, each person is exposed to thirty-five hundred desire-inducing advertisements every day. Rodney Clapp wrote, "The consumer is schooled in insatiability. He or she is never to be satisfied - at least not for long. The consumer is tutored that people basically consist of unmet needs that can be appeased by commodified goods and experiences. — Skye Jethani

We say that we care about the war, but we don't even really know what we're fighting for. — Scott Ritter

Perfectionism is self-abuse of the highest order. — Anne Wilson Schaef