Oracle Select Double Quotes & Sayings

Any time you give a man something he doesn't earn, you cheapen him. Our kids earn what they get, and that includes respect. — Woody Hayes

The world is full of stupid people. That's why we have rules. But with enough intelligence, a person can be above the rules. She can make rules. — Daniel Nayeri

Social progress means a checking of the cosmic process at every step and the substitution for it of another, which may be called the ethical process; the end of which is not the survival of those who may happen to be the fittest, in respect of the whole of the conditions which obtain, but of those who are ethically the best. — Thomas Huxley

There is no sweeter pleasure than wandering aimlessly about. — Marty Rubin

That, indeed, the Home Front is something of a fiction and lie, designed, not too subtly, to draw them apart, to subvert love in favor of work, abstraction, required pain, bitter death. — Thomas Pynchon

Moreover, joint occurrences tend to be better recalled than instances when the effect does not occur. The proneness to remember confirming instances, but to overlook disconfirming ones, further serves to convert, in thought, coincidences into causalities. — Albert Bandura

First crush, first kiss, first time I saw the ocean
And dug my toes in the sand
Baseball and summer nights, casting out when the fish first bite,
First time I got a Chevy in my hands
I thought nothing can touch that by a mile
I thought nothing can make that moment seem so worthwhile — Scotty McCreery

I will never laugh at you," he promises fiercely. "Ever. I'm your safe place, Libby. You've got to know that. — Kristen Callihan

A toad does not run in the daytime for nothing — Chinua Achebe

Wall Street is where prophets tell us what will happen and profits tell us what did happen. — Robert Orben

I suppose that every parent loves his child, but I know, without any suppossing, that in a large number of homes the love is hidden behind authority, or its expression is crowded out by daily duties and cares — Abbott Eliot Kittredge

Life is a continuous process of adjustment. — Indira Gandhi

Films can only be made by by-passing the will of those who appear in them, using not what they do, but what they are. — Robert Bresson

I saw white figures. Twice I fancied I saw a solitary white, ape-like creature running rather quickly up the hill, and once near the ruins I saw a leash of them carrying some dark body. — H.G.Wells

If you find a saint who has no sense of humour, then he is not a saint at all. Impossible. His very seriousness says that he has not achieved. Once you have some inner experiences of your own you become very playful, you become very innocent, childlike. — Rajneesh