Obliquity John Quotes & Sayings

There's the chart
and there's the heart. And it's great when they both line up. But you better follow your heart, 'cause that's where it's at. — Marty Stuart

[T]he rule of law does more than ensure freedom from high-handed action by rulers. It ensures justice between man and man however humble the one and however powerful the other. A man with five dollars in the bank can call to account the corporation with five billion dollars in assets-and the two will be heard as equals before the law. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

Aside from a few master teachers that we have had over the years, this has been a completely local talent development. But people have started to come now from Chicago, we have a number of students from Chicago and different places of the country and even in the world. — Katherine Dunham

I have not seen any Christian sparrow or Muslim lion or Jewish elephant! Animals are lucky as they have not yet invented the religion! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

That's not who you are," Blythe said.
"Who am I?"
"My little wolf." She traced my jaw, the ridge of my knuckles. "All teeth and claws. Cunning, and fierce, and insatiable. — Leah Raeder

Slander is a vice that strikes a double blow; wounding both him that commits, and him against whom it is committed. — Bernard-Joseph Saurin

beauty is in the eye of the gazer." My — Charlotte Bronte

The world doesn't give even the slightest damn about us or our petty problems. — Harlan Coben

It's crazy that in a country where schools are falling apart, we're spending $20 billion on nuclear weapons. — Ben Cohen

It's really unimaginable that I could start where I was and get here today. — Steve Harvey

The shift in national power may be overshadowed by an even more fundamental shift in the nature of power. Enabled by communications technologies, power will shift toward multifaceted and amorphous networks that will form to influence state and global actions. Those countries with some of the strongest fundamentals - GDP, population size, etc. - will not be able to punch their weight unless they also learn to operate in networks and coalitions in a multipolar world. — National Research Council

I'm grateful when anybody can start to have his or her limited perception of the genre open up a little bit, ... There's a lot of great music in the country genre that doesn't get heard because people say, 'Well, I don't like country. — Keith Urban

Archaeology is the anthropology of the past, and science fiction is the anthropology of the future. — Joan D. Vinge

Every experience deeply felt in life needs to be passed along. Wheather it be through words and music, chiseled in stone, painted with a brush, or sewn with a needle, it is a way of reaching for immortality. — Thomas Jefferson