Oild Quotes & Sayings

I'm very proud of my Scottish blood. — David Duchovny

Without knowledge and understanding, one tends to become a passive spectator rather than an active participant in the great decisions of our time. — Diane Ravitch

Synchronizing mind and body is not a concept or a random technique someone thought up for self-improvement. Rather, it is a basic principle of how to be a human being. — Chogyam Trungpa

To imprison yourself and then beg to be freed; this is the dynamic of a victim mindset. — Steve Maraboli

The row was actually about everything in creation, but it had for its subject of the moment the boy's mustache. — Kurt Vonnegut

To live in the midst of suffering, which we do, we do, amid distress, and to keep some equilibrium in the midst of that - that would be happiness enough. — Michael Leunig

But one thing is certain: the commandments have not changed. Let there be no mistake about that. Right is still right. Wrong is still wrong, no matter how cleverly cloaked in respectability or political correctness. We believe in chastity before marriage and fidelity ever after. That standard is an absolute standard of truth. It is neither subject to public opinion polls nor dependent upon situation or circumstance. There is no need to debate it or other gospel standards. — M. Russell Ballard

I also remember catching the eye of the few conscientious objectors in the terminal, the people opposed to the war but afraid to speak up. There was no hate in their eyes, only pity. Sadness. Knowledge that I might be necessary, but that we shouldn't be proud that I was necessary. That's how I saw myself and my company by the end of my second tour. I didn't hate what we did so much as hate the need for it all. No one should applaud this. We should bow our heads not in thanks but in sadness. — Hugh Howey

I think I'm actually built for fatherhood. I love to have a good time and play, but at the same time I've got a really serious side to me, and I think that's the balance you have to have. Get on your kids' level, but at any point in time, let them know who the parent is. — Nick Cannon

New York is not like London, a now-and-then place to many people. You can either not live in New York or not live anyplace else. One is either a lover or hater. — Carolyn Heilbrun

Until I can visualise what the lyrics are about and see the story or whatever, I can't hear the melody. — Elton John

I leave it up to the government to make good decisions for Americans. — Danica Patrick