Matlack Quotes & Sayings

If the devil starts bringing up your past it's because he's running out of new material! — Jentezen Franklin

Beauty has no obvious use; nor is there any clear cultural necessity for it. Yet civilization could not do without it. — Sigmund Freud

However ... " he said. "Now see, that's just a but with more meat on it. — Barbra Annino

To grow up as a "girl" is to be nearly fatally spoiled, deformed, confused, and terrified; to be responded to with falsities, to be reacted to as nothing or as a thing - and nearly to become that thing. — James Tiptree Jr.

How people see the world is often a reflection of how they see themselves. If they think that the world is just a cesspool of lies and deceit, then they themselves may be full of lies and deceit. Watch out for those people who are always telling you just how corrupt the rest of the world is. As the saying goes, 'It takes one to know one.' — David J. Lieberman

Like a compass needle that points north, a man's accusing finger always finds a woman. Always. — Khaled Hosseini

It was part of his nature to extenuate nothing and live on as one of his own worst accusers. — Thomas Hardy

The academic bias against subjectivity not only forces our students to write poorly ("It is believed ... ," instead of, "I believe ... "), it deforms their thinking about themselves and their world. In a single stroke, we delude our students into believing that bad prose turns opinions into facts and we alienate them from their own inner lives. — Parker J. Palmer

also get why people aren't beating down the doors of the polling places. For one, we can't keep track of whether we're supposed to bring a DNA sample or a urine sample this time to prove our identity and residency. It keeps changing. For another, the hours and polling locations in poorer neighborhoods keep getting cut for some reason. It is definitely not at all a conscious effort to repress the poor (read likely Democrat) vote. At all. Ever. (Dear GOP: You guys might want to police your people. They keep openly saying that your goal is to repress the vote of the poor.) Additionally, — Linda Tirado

You don't scare a man who sees people as cockroaches. — Toba Beta

There is no problem the mind of man can set that the mind of man cannot solve. — Samuel Johnson

When I was about 10 I ran away to see my father. He couldn't have cared less. He just took me back as soon as he could. — Vidal Sassoon