Latvala Johnpaul Quotes & Sayings

That civilised life cannot be lived without taboos - that some of them may indeed be justified, and that therefore taboo is not in itself an evil to be vanquished - is a thought too subtle for the aesthetes of nihilism. — Theodore Dalrymple

Tiger Woods did not always win majors with ease; after his narrow victory in the 1999 PGA, he slumped and sighed as if he'd been carrying rocks uphill all afternoon. — John Updike

To get at the meaning of a statement the logical positivist asks, What would the world be like if it were true? The operationist asks, What would we have to do to come to believe it? For the pragmatist the question is, What would we do if did believe it? — Abraham Kaplan

That practis'd falsehood under saintly shew, Deep malice to conceal, couch'd with revenge. — John Milton

Harry Potter's like Santa Clause: something you can't see but wish was real so badly that you end up believing in it. — Emma Watson

I've never yet met a person who didn't want to be appreciated ... — Mary Kay Ash

I'm not involved in light, frivolous matters. I'm not involved in fringe or side issues. I'm involved in serious issues. — Michele Bachmann

Sometimes the best mode of transportation is a leap of faith. — M. Elaine Moore

Sunny didn't make a fool out of Phineas, God beat her to that. — Jerry Lawler

Beauty could be defined simply as 'that which pleases.' But there is another aspect to art, and that ... is the sublime. Like the mushroom cloud of the atom bomb, or the vastness of space as projected to us by satellite ... the greatness of the experience goes beyond your ethical and aesthetic judgment, cutting you free from the binding ego of yourself. With the diminishment of your ego, the less there is of you, the more you see the sublime. — Jen Wang

Running around accusing others is not as good as laughing. And enjoying a good laugh is not as good as going along with things. — Zhuangzi

The other are the strategic, so-called strategic stocks that the United States and the other Western industrial countries have, which could put in as much as four million barrels a day of oil into the market pretty quickly. — Daniel Yergin

It's hard ... to shake off something that's already under your skin, — Will Graham