Jesting And Shirley Quotes & Sayings

I don't pretend for a second that I'm that great of a person on a day-to-day basis. I'm a deeply flawed human. — Jami Attenberg

Ignorance leads to fear, fear leads to hate, and hate leads to violence. This is the equation. — Averroes

Man is that being who invented the gas chambers of Auschwitz; however, he is also that being who entered those chambers upright, with the Lord's Prayer or the Shema Yisrael on his lips. — Viktor E. Frankl

You're the only girl I've ever kissed. — Josephine Angelini

I am not a yogi yet, but I aspire to have more balance in my life. — Baratunde Thurston

Perhaps it is our obligation to be noble before it is our obligation to be happy. — Kathleen McGowan

Get it 80 percent right and then correct it later. — Brian Tracy

I've always looked on criticism as a sort of envious tribute. — F Scott Fitzgerald

Self criticism must be my guide to action, and the first rule for its employment is that in itself it is not a virtue, only a procedure. — Kingsley Amis

You know well as I do that when we are talking on the human plane, questions of justice only arise when there is equal power to compel: in terms of practicality the dominant exact what they can and the weak concede what they must. (Said by Athenian envoy to the Melians) — Thucydides

Everybody acts not only under external compulsion but also in accordance with inner necessity. — Albert Einstein

The terrorist seeks to smash the most fundamental liberty of all: the right to lead our everyday lives on the basic assumption of safety. — Charles Kennedy

The cooperative forces are biologically the more important and vital. The balance between the cooperative and altruistic tendencies and those which are disoperative and egoistic is relatively close. Under many conditions the cooperative forces lose, In the long run, however, the group centered, more altruistic drives are slightly stronger ... human altruistic drives are as firmly based on an animal ancestry as is man himself. Our tendencies toward goodness ... are as innate as our tendencies toward intelligence; we could do well with more of both. — Warder Clyde Allee