Jack Black Mindstore Quotes & Sayings

Congenital naysayers are among the greatest stumbling blocks to thinking free. Rather than imagining how a new idea might possibly work, they instinctively think of all the reasons why it won't. They sincerely believe that they are doing everyone a favor by reducing the amount of time spent on bad or foolish ideas. But what they really do is undermine the creativity that can be harvested from thinking free. — Steven Sample

At all events, I do not mean to leave it unaltered. — James Branch Cabell

I will, based on the existing ROC constitutional system, based on democratic principles, on the basis of the largest public opinion, promote cross-strait policy. — Tsai Ing-wen

He moved on from Anatole France to the eighteenth-century philosophers, though not to Rousseau. Perhaps this was because one side of him - the side easily moved by passion - was too close to Rousseau. Instead, he approached the author of 'Candide', who was closer to another side of him - the cool and richly intellectual side.
At twenty-nine, life no longer held any brightness for him, but Voltaire supplied him with man-made wings.
Spreading these man-made wings, he soared with ease into the sky. The higher he flew, the farther below him sank the joys and sorrows of a life bathed in the light of intellect. Dropping ironies and smiles upon the shabby towns below, he climbed through the open sky, straight for the sun - as if he had forgotten about that ancient Greek who plunged to his death in the ocean when his man-made wings were singed by the sun. — Ryunosuke Akutagawa

It's hard for a man to live with a successful woman - they seem to resent you so much. Very few men are generous enough to accept success in their women. — Shirley Bassey

Too few rejoice at a friend's good fortune. — Aeschylus

Her, but she didn't care. She went out on the balcony and looked down into the yard. — Salla Simukka

I'm not a Republican ... but I am saving up to be one. — Emo Philips

Some natures are so sour and ungrateful that they are never to be obliged. — Roger L'Estrange

Accidentally cut a few strips outta his patient's brain. Interested in what would happen if he stitched them back in the wrong place. Patient woke up thinking he was a panda ice cream spatula. — Bradley Sands

His arms around her felt like nothing she'd ever known and everything she'd ever wanted. — Jennifer Donnelly

My name is Richard Werner. Dick. You can call me Dick. — Ray Palla