Mceathron Texas Quotes & Sayings

The only way for a woman to provide for herself decently is for her to be good to some man that can afford to be good to her. — George Bernard Shaw

My wants are simple: a job that I like and a guy whom I love. — Emily Giffin

Dignity and pride are not only two different feelings, but, in some ways, opposites.
You can step on your pride to preserve your dignity. You can destroy your dignity because of your pride. — Luigina Sgarro

Walking past the kitchen counter again, I reached into my left pocket and grabbed my chocolate supply. I stopped and grabbed the door to exit. As I did, I dipped my shoulder and dropped my laptop in the entrance. I stood for a long moment, looking at the computer bag. I released my grip on my right hand and dropped the chocolate bars beside it, locked the door, and left. — Scott Hildreth

The weak-minded man is the slave of his vices and the dupe of his virtues. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

The very thing that makes him a great killer makes him very much unsuitable for anything else. — Aleksandr Voinov

If one wants to abide in the thought-free state, a struggle is inevitable.
One must fight one's way through before regaining one's original primal state.
If one succeeds in the fight and reaches the goal, the enemy, namely the thoughts,
will all subside in the Self and disappear entirely. — Ramana Maharshi

Patience, attention, and restraint are the keys to good cooking. — Eddie Huang

I don't think I've shied away from anybody. I'm not scared. I respect hitters, but I'm not afraid. — Mark Prior

Those little age differentials, so crucial and so gross when we are young, erode. We end up belonging to the same category, that of the non-young. I've never much minded this myself. [p. 66] — Julian Barnes

I will never be worthy of her. But I spend every day trying my damnedest. — Sylvain Reynard

Seneca had made the bargain that many good men have made when agreeing to aid bad regimes. On the one hand, their presence strengthens the regime and helps it endure. But their moral influence may also improve the regime's behavior or save the lives of its enemies. For many, this has been a bargain worth making, even if it has cost them - as it may have cost Seneca - their immortal soul. — James Romm

I tried to end our little duel. I called out pacifying words; I entreated; I finally surrendered. Still Clyde came, my pirate costume so great a success that it had apparently convinced him that we were back in the golden days of romantic old New Orleans when gentlemen decided matters of hot dog honor at twenty paces — John Kennedy Toole

In view of the vast size of the occupied areas in the East the forces available for establishing security in these areas will be sufficient only if all resistance is punished not by legal prosecution of the guilty but by the spreading of such terror by the occupying power as is appropriate to eradicate every inclination to resist among the population. The competent commanders must find the means of keeping order not by demanding more security forces but by applying suitable Draconian methods. — Alfred Jodl

And it occurs to no one that to admit a greatness not commensurable with the standard of right and wrong is merely to admit one's own nothingness and immeasurable meanness. — Leo Tolstoy