Miskanic In Urban Quotes & Sayings

Stay out of the gutter in your conversation. Foul talk defiles the man who speaks it ... Don't swear. Don't profane. Avoid so-called dirty jokes. Stay away from conversation that is sprinkled with foul and filthy words. You will be happier if you do so, and your example will give strength to others. — Gordon B. Hinckley

But I return to that terrible statement of Bertrand Russell's: "Better Red than dead." Why did he not say it would be better to be brown than dead? There is no difference. All my life and the life of my generation, the life of those who share my views, we all have had one viewpoint: Better to be dead than to be a scoundrel. In this horrible expression of Bertrand Russell's there is an absence of all moral criteria. Looked at from a short distance, these words allow one to maneuver and to continue to enjoy life. But from a long term point of view it will undoubtedly destroy those people who think like that. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Forecasts may tell you a great deal about the forecaster; they tell you nothing about the future. — Warren Buffett

We mostly quarreled. He wanted what I wouldn't give. I wanted what he didn't have. — Larry McMurtry

History is marked by alternating movements across the imaginary line that separates East from West in Eurasia. — Herodotus

Everyone's a star and deserves the right to twinkle. — Marilyn Monroe

Earth laughs in flowers to see her boastful boys Earth-proud, proud of the earth which is not theirs; Who steer the plough, but cannot steer their feet Clear of the grave. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

You understand ... just what the Taoists mean when they say that soft is stronger than hard. — Alan Weisman