Metering Valve Quotes & Sayings

If you delve into and a part of the political wars, the - as I would call it, the arguing ad infinitum. It never ends, and very few people I've noticed ever change their mind. — Phil Robertson

As centuries of dictators have known, an illiterate crowd is the easiest to rule; since the craft of reading cannot be untaught once it has been acquired, the second-best recourse is to limit its scope. — Alberto Manguel

For though we live in the world, we do not wage war as the world does. The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds. — Beth Moore

Among a democratic people, where there is no hereditary wealth, every man works to earn a living, or is born of parents who have worked. The notion of labor is therefore presented to the mind, on every side, as the necessary, natural, and honest condition. — Alexis De Tocqueville

I was the owner of my own darkness. — Pablo Neruda

There isn't anyone in my life who is going to get upset about how much travelling I have to do or whether or not I'm available for drinks that night. — Brie Larson

Drawing is like the first kiss. It carries within it the deepest emotion and the challenge of the first step. It is the first cry after birth — Ala Bashir

The jailer voiced a roar that was intended to be on par with that of an infuriated lion, and indeed sounded like that to him in his own head (but to an observer or listener was much more akin to a consumptive mallard) and sped - which is to say moved with slightly less slowness than he typically did - to the cell that he had just absented. — Peter David

It's so easy to conform and to follow. It's very difficult to be rebellious and live by what you believe is right. And to make decisions and to take the consequences. Very few people do. — Bo Derek

He is not guilty who is not guilty of his own free will. — Seneca The Younger

Never wait for the perfect moment,make it the perfect moment now. — Unknown