Oiliness Spelling Quotes & Sayings

[I]t's necessary to exert very great foresight every time you go to blame or praise a man, so that you won't speak incorrectly ... For you shouldn't suppose that, while stones are sacred and pieces of wood, and birds, and snakes, human beings are not. Rather of all these things, the most sacred is the good human being, while the most polluted is the wicked.
Speech attributed to Socrates in Plato, Minos 319a, trans. Thomas L. Pangle, in The Roots of Political Philosophy: Ten Forgotten Socratic Dialogues, ed. Thomas L. Pangle (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1987), 63. — Plato

The rules are simple and easily understood by anyone who has once seen the game, but to the totally uninitiated they appear to be hopelessly unintelligible. — John Adams Gilmer

And then it happens all at once and unexpectedly. That is how things happen, I suppose. You pack your bags and find yourself walking yourself home. — Shannon L. Alder

In the stories we tell ourselves, we tell ourselves. — Michael Martone

Men of England, wherefore plough For the lords who lay you low? — Percy Bysshe Shelley

Mrs. Mitchell, Henna greets, her voice three sizes smaller than a minute ago. — Patrick Ness

I really don't want to hurt others for my benefit. — Kristin Bauer Van Straten

No, Freedom has a thousand charms to show
That slaves, howe'er contented, never know. — William Cowper

I can't cure anyone. I can't guarantee they will heal. I can only tell them my story, remind them that they are not alone in their journey and offer a glimmer of hope for healing. — Sharon E. Rainey

If voting made any difference, it would be illegal, — Philip Berrigan

If you don't think you're a winner, you don't belong here. — Vince Lombardi

Vetting and verifying information is one thing. Having our government sending out conflicting messages to the American people when conflict can be avoided is another. — Vito Fossella

In my first year or so at the 'Post,' I began to write with some frequency on the least important issues - so-called light editorials. The titles themselves are revealing of just how light: 'On Being a Horse,' 'Brains and Beauty,' 'Mixed Drinks,' 'Lou Gehrig,' and 'Spotted Fever.' — Katharine Graham

The establishment of Zionist regime was a move by the world oppressor against the Islamic world. — Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

'24 Hour Party People' was a comedy, and I knew that from the beginning. — Peter Hook