Off Putting Def Quotes & Sayings

Ask yourself, 'how long am I going to work to make my dreams come true?' I suggest you answer, 'as long as it takes.' — Jim Rohn

You can always improve on something, the technology is different today, but I would leave it well alone. If there was something that was incomplete, that might be interesting ... because I do that on my website. — Dave Davies

Even as rigorous a determinist as Karl Marx, who at times described the social behaviour of the bourgeoisie in terms which suggested a problem in social physics, could subject it at other times to a withering scorn which only the presupposition of moral responsibility could justify. — Reinhold Niebuhr

We must not pluck death from the Maker's hand. — Philip James Bailey

Vocabularian (n.) One who pays too much attention to words. In the past I have been accused by various parties of paying too much attention to words. Which is true, I suppose; but what else do I have to pay attention to? Vomiturient — Ammon Shea

Unless your government is respectable, foreigners will invade your rights; and to maintain tranquillity, it must be respectable - even to observe neutrality, you must have a strong government. — Alexander Hamilton

He asked if he could recite a poem he had written that morning: 'You speak,' he said, 'the language of shooting stars, more surprising than sunrise, more brilliant than the sun, as brief as sunset. I want to follow its trail to eternity. — Amy Tan

We want. When we stop wanting, we feel dead and want to want more. (p.232) — Sue Miller

The danger of disturbing the public tranquillity by interesting too strongly the public passions, is a still more serious objection against a frequent reference of constitutional questions to the decision of the whole society. — James Madison

You don't know me well enough to be confident that I wouldn't be able to live without you. I survived almost two decades of ignoring the fuck out of you, I can survive plenty more. — Christine Celis

There is no such thing as a minor operation. Any opening, incision, cut, gash or puncture in the human body not put there by God is a blasphemy and a major disaster. — Samuel Taylor

The world is young: the former great men call to us affectionately. We too must write Bibles, to unite again the heavens and the earthly world. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Come from your wandering way, weary travelers. Come to the gospel of Jesus Christ. Come to that heavenly haven called home. Here you will discover the truth. Here you will learn the reality of the Godhead, the comfort of the plan of salvation, the sanctity of the marriage covenant, the power of personal prayer. Come home. — Thomas S. Monson

Wit has as few true judges as painting. — William Wycherley