Kentucky Derby Famous Quotes & Sayings

No young man starting in life could have better capital than plenty of friends. They will strengthen his credit, support him in every great effort, and make him what, unaided, he could never be. Friends of the right sort will help him more - to be happy and successful - than much money. — Orison Swett Marden

It should surprise no one that modern soldiers return home just as conflicted and detached as previous generations. The difference is that in the age of vapid American decadence, their simpler fundamental values are largely irrelevant to we civilians. — Tiffany Madison

They lived seven hundred miles - and a couple universes - apart. — Josh Lanyon

Discussions about the ethics of suicide are immediately biased by the verb that customarily attaches to it in English. One "commits" suicide. Because this presupposes the wrongfulness of the suicide, I avoid that verb, opting instead for "carry out" suicide. This is evaluatively neutral, avoiding both the usual bias against suicide and the unusual bias in favor of it that the verb "achieve" would effect. "Carry out" is preferable to "practice", which implies something ongoing. Finally, "carry out" also implies a suicide that is completed rather than merely attempted. — David Benatar

Political Economy or Economics is a study of mankind in the ordinary business of life. — Alfred Marshall

I was pretty sure I'd just had a nerdgasm. — Nicole Peeler

With their virtues they want to scratch out the eyes of their enemies; and they elevate themselves only that they may lower others. — Friedrich Nietzsche

A writer has to true to him or herself. Period. That's it! — Jhumpa Lahiri

If, in Him all things hold together, why would anyone ever want to be apart from Him? — Van Harden

I have observed over the years that the unanticipated consequences of social action are always more important, and usually less agreeable, than the intended consequences. — Irving Kristol

Judge Fang got to eat this way only when someone really important was trying to taint him, and though he had never knowingly allowed his judicial judgment to be swayed, he did enjoy the chow. — Neal Stephenson

It's heaven to know that it's still possible to run, though she doesn't know what she's running from. — Gregory Maguire