Jiu Jitsu Friendship Quotes & Sayings

If Natur has gifted a man with powers of argeyment, a man has a right to make the best of 'em, and has not a right to stand on false delicacy, and deny that he is so gifted; for that is a turning of his back on Natur, a flouting of her, a slighting of her precious caskets, and a proving of one's self to be a swine that isn't worth her scattering pearls before. — Charles Dickens

Our use of words defines us. — Melissa Harker Ridenour

Opening a book in the middle of a chapter always made me feel like I was interrupting a group of strangers, wandering unannounced into their villages and apartments and taxis and slums. — Julie Schumacher

I am pretty interested in hybrid forms. I love graphic novels and I think there should be more graphic poems in the world. — Matthea Harvey

For the past few years I have engaged in several inappropriate conversations conducted over Twitter, Facebook, e-mail and occasionally on the phone with women I have met online. — Anthony Weiner

Thus, dear friends, I have said it clearly enough, and I believe you ought to understand it and not make liberty a law ... — Martin Luther

They had all this talent, and they had no instruments. So they started rap music. They rhymed on their own. They made their own sounds and their own movements. — Max Roach

But we are in any case mistaken if we think of our picture of the world as a passive record. The picture is made by, it is made of, our activity, all the way from the logic of the brain to the use of the plow and the wheel. — Jacob Bronowski

The clever old conniver continued to cogitate. — James D. Doss

How to preside over your own internal disorder? Finding the "I" that can represent the pack of you is the first challenge of the memoirist. — Tracy Kidder

I think I have patient fans that want quality over quantity. It's more important to me that the project be the best that it can be and the realest it can be rather than rushing a whole bunch of generic songs, because I could do that. I could just put together some songs real quick that I really like. I only write and I only sing for a purpose, so if its not then, it's not going to be rushed. — Jhene Aiko

Solitude devastates me; company oppresses me. The presence of another person derails my thoughts; I dream of the other's presence with a strange absent-mindedness that no amount of my analytical scrutiny can define. — Fernando Pessoa