Malleable Metal Quotes & Sayings

The sign said "eight items or less". So I changed my name to Les. — Steven Wright

When you wake up with a smile on your face, you know you have done something right in your life. — Jean Williams

You cannot win a battle in any arena merely by defending yourself. — Richard M. Nixon

In the enriching of marriage, the big things are the little things. There must be constant appreciation for each other and thoughtful demonstration of gratitude. A couple must encourage and help each other grow. Marriage is a joint quest for the good, the beautiful, and the divine — James E. Faust

Gold, n.: A soft malleable metal relatively scarce in distribution. It is mined deep in the earth by poor men who then give it to rich men who immediately bury it back in the earth in great prisons, although gold hasn't done anything to them. — Mike Harding

I do not choose that my grave should be dug while I am still alive. — Elizabeth I

I'm simply one hell of a butler.
-Sebastian Michaelis — Yana Toboso

In the Navy, there is no wrong hole. In the Marines, there is always a hole. — George Carlin

The important thing is the attitude of the athlete, the desire to get to the top. — Herb Elliott

In the world at large, people are rewarded or punished in ways that are often utterly random. In the garden, cause and effect, labor and reward, are re-coupled. Gardening makes sense in a senseless world. By extension, then, the more gardens in the world, the more justice, the more sense is created. — Andrew Weil

The big problem in America is that everyone is spending 2-3 hours a day watching TV. If you spend that same amount of time reading, you'll be in the top 1% of whatever your field is. — Jack Canfield

I knew how many zeroes there were in a quintillion, but I thought that algebra lived in ponds. — Gavin Extence

Things started to fall apart at home when my brother, Jaja, did not go to communion and Papa flung his heavy missal across the room and broke the figurines on the etagere.(Opening page, 3) — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

By far the easiest grounds for gaining conscientious objector status in wartime are religious. You can be a brilliant moral philosopher with a prize-winning doctoral thesis expounding the evils of war, and still be given a hard time by a draft board evaluating your claim to be a conscientious objector. Yet if you can say that one or both of your parents is a Quaker you sail through like a breeze, no matter how inarticulate and illiterate you may be on the theory of pacifism or, indeed, Quakerism itself. — Richard Dawkins

History should not be written to make the present generation feel good but to remind us that human affairs are complicated. — Margaret MacMillan

All motives can be explained under the letter L: lust, lucre, loathing and love. They'll tell you the most dangerous is loathing but don't you believe it, boy; the most dangerous is love. — P.D. James