Mandilian Quotes & Sayings

Never feel bad for being assertive, speaking your mind, and putting your foot down. What you think is anger, others see as a good solid display of self-esteem. — Alison James

All businessmen are scum. — Frank Dobson

I suggest that the foundations of peace cannot be laid by universal prosperity, in the modem sense. because such prosperity, if attainable at all. is attainable only by cultivating such drives of human nature as greed and envy, which destroy intelligence, happiness, serenity, and thereby the peacefulness of man. — Ernst F. Schumacher

I always try to practice what I preach. I meditate for fifteen minutes every day and do yoga several times a week. — Arianna Huffington

Society must be made to operate in such a way that it eradicates once and for all the desire of a man to become richer, or wiser, or more powerful than others. — Francois-Noel Babeuf

In order to get to heaven, Jesus said that you must be converted. I didn't say it - Jesus said it! — Billy Graham

I was interested in a lot of subjects from very early on. And that's uniquely Chicano because every Chicano I knew always had three jobs. — Cheech Marin

Our Exhibitions [The Royal Academy] have ... a mischievous tendency, by seducing the Painter to an ambition of pleasing indiscriminately the mixed multitude of people who resort to them. — Joshua Reynolds

I always want to make sure I'm telling a story about people that I care about. — Joss Whedon

I played tennis and softball, and we had horses, growing up. — Beth Riesgraf

Organizations like the ACLU fought and won the good fight back in the 1960's, but it's clear that nowadays they've run out of useful things to do since they now spend most of their time defending the scum of the Earth from getting what they rightly deserve. — Craig Bruce

It [the Civil War] was a heroic struggle; and, as is inevitable with all such struggles, it had also a dark and terrible side. Very much was done of good, and much also of evil; and, as was inevitable in such a period of revolution, often the same man did both good and evil. For our great good fortune as a nation, we, the people of the United States as a whole, can now afford to forget the evil, or, at least, to remember it without bitterness, and to fix our eyes with pride only on the good that was accomplished. — Theodore Roosevelt

She'd thought a gun would fit easily into his hand, the way a gun did for a man who hung out in dim bars and smoky hotel rooms. But it didn't fit easily. It didn't fit at all. — Nora Roberts

A story always sounds clear enough at a distance, but the nearer you get to the scene of events the vaguer it becomes. — George Orwell

There are days when I miss my old convictions as if they were an amputated limb. But in general I feel better, and no less radical, and you will feel better too, I guarantee, once you leave hold of the doctrinaire and allow your chainless mind to do its own thinking. — Christopher Hitchens