Madwedge Quotes & Sayings

Always scorn appearances and you always may. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

You know, these guys want to talk about God; 'Oh, I want to thank God. I want to thank God.' Listen, I'm a God-fearing man, go to church every Sunday and have since I was a boy. But if I ever found out that God cared one way or another about a borderline illegal fist-fight on Saturday night, I would be so greatly disappointed that it would make rethink my entire belief system. — Chael Sonnen

He wants you back," slurred Beth.
"Excuse me?"
"He's in love with you and want you to be his one and only. And some other bullshit about you not being in second place and proving you wrong. — Katie McGarry

The visionary is the one who brings his or her voice into the world and who refuses to edit, rehearse, perform, or hide. It is the visionary who knows that the power of creativity is aligned with authenticity. — Angeles Arrien

Einstein's paper on the photoelectric effect was the work for which he ultimately won the Nobel Prize. It was published in 1905, and Einstein has another paper in the very same journal where it appeared - his other paper was the one that formulated the special theory of relativity. That's what it was like to be Einstein in 1905; you publish a groundbreaking paper that helps lay the foundation of quantum mechanics, and for which you later win the Nobel Prize, but it's only the second most important paper that you publish in that issue of the journal. — Sean Carroll

Timing is a wonderful thing sometimes. It can save us from ourselves. — Jennifer Coburn

The history of human conduct does not warrant that exalted opinion of human virtue which would make it wise in a nation to commit interests of so delicate and momentous a kind as those which concern its intercourse with the rest of the world, to the sole disposal of a magistrate, created and circumstanced, as would be a president of the United States. — Alexander Hamilton

'Grand Theft Auto', in its deification of antisocial behavior, is where I heap the most of my scorn. — Nolan Bushnell

Actions are based on attitues but behaviours based on character — Pavankumar Nagaraj

American feminists have generally stressed the ways in which men and women should be equal and have therefore tried to put aside differences ... Social feminists [in Europe]believe that men and society at large should provide systematic support to women in recognition of their dual role as mothers and workers. — Sylvia Ann Hewlett

European society has always been divided into classes in a way that American society never has been. A European writer considers himself to be part of an old and honorable tradition
of intellectual activity, of letters
and his choice of a vocation does not cause him any uneasy wonder as to whether or not it will cost him all his friends. But this tradition does not exist in America. — James A. Baldwin