Johnakin Franklin Quotes & Sayings

If you defend a behavior by arguing that people are programmed directly for it, then how do you continue to defend it if your speculation is wrong, for the behavior then becomes unnatural and worthy of condemnation. Better to stick resolutely to a philosophical position on human liberty: what free adults do with each other in their own private lives is their business alone. It need not be vindicated and must not be condemned by genetic speculation. — Stephen Jay Gould

and the man and the chair went different ways. — Don DeLillo

You want to dig your well where you have the best chance of finding water with the least amount of digging — Theodore Levitt

Jump in the ocean of love
to die and to save at the same time. — Debasish Mridha

I've been in so many bad movies and worked with so many bad directors that I go into a film expecting nothing. — Cliff Robertson

I grew up mostly in Germany, but my favorite summer trip was driving from North Carolina to Texas in a camper with my parents and us six kids. — Michael Strahan

I didn't know what was going through my mind. — Gabriela Sabatini

NO ONE GETS PARDONED FOR LIVING. — Terry Pratchett

If the people fail to vote, a government will be developed which is not their government ... The whole system of American Government rests on the ballot box. Unless citizens perform their duties there, such a system of government is doomed to failure. — Calvin Coolidge

When somebody is ignoring, I ignore him too. When somebody is kicking or punching me I also do that, but with the differences that I do that on him. The rule is called Equal, but it's famous with "quits"! — Deyth Banger

If watching television doesn't hasten death, it surely manages to make death very inviting; for television so shamelessly sentimentalizes and romanticizes death that it makes the living feel they have missed something - just by staying alive. — John Irving

"Undecided," while running for re-election to state Senate in 1998, in response to an Outlines questionnaire asking, "Do you favor legalizing same-sex marriage?" — Barack Obama

The power of your beliefs to keep you stuck is enormous. Those deeply ingrained notions act as chains restricting you from experiencing your unique destiny. — Wayne W. Dyer