Oscars 2014 Quotes & Sayings

But all provisions that He (God) has made for the gratification of our senses ... are much inferior to the provision, the wonderful provision that He has made for the gratification of our nobler powers of intelligence and reason. He has given us reason to find out the truth, and the real design and true end of our existence. — John Adams

I am not prejudiced in any way. — Vladimir Putin

The NRA, with the fingers on the triggers when they kneel and pray. — Frank Zappa

Annabel pointed out. "I don't think any of us doubted our marriageability." "My new governess, Miss Flecknoe, would say that was an utterly improper comment," Josie commented, raising her eyes from her book. "I can say that without hesitation because Miss Flecknoe finds any realistic assessment of relations between men and women improper. — Eloisa James

The mater, with her scissors outspread to snap the head of a dead something or other, stopped at the sight of Reggie. — Katherine Mansfield

Economics is mostly how humans rationalize who gets what and why. It's how we instantiate our preferences about status, privileges, and power. — Nick Hanauer

I got used to birds: small black birds flying up from behind a building like God had tossed up a handful of currants, birds squalling in the parking lot of the grocery store (drowning the hum of industrial refrigerators), chachalacas -brown robed nuns to the spangled disco dancer peacocks - cackling in the dust of our yard. I got used to the chatters, squeaks, squalls, peeps, calls that sounded like bitter laughter, whistles, flutes, calls that sounded like souls ascending to heaven. I got used to dust and flatness, to sunsets like pink water pouring from the sky, flooding the earth with orange soda. I got used to wind: the hot, cruel wind of afternoon, the merciful magnolia breeze of night. I got used to it. But then I had to go. — Kathleen Founds

You're passionate, energetic and forceful, so your star sign Aries says, so have a fun packed birthday, all our love is sent your way. — Susan Smith

Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions. — Harold S. Geneen

To speak for an hour, you need to practice hundred hours. — Sarvesh Jain

It's made me more relaxed about life. I take each day as it comes. Try to enjoy myself. I don't hang with people who bring me down, don't hold on to things that don't make me happy. — Alessandra Torre

Who has forbidden women to engage in private and individual studies? Have they not a rational soul as men do? ... I have this inclination to study and if it is evil I am not the one who formed me thus - I was born with it and with it I shall die. — Juana Ines De La Cruz

He was answered by a long plastic crackle, not a question, but not an instruction either. Softer in tone. Encouragement, maybe. Or reassurance. The one-eyed guy said, "OK, sure," and hung up. — Lee Child

One cannot escape the feeling that these mathematical formulas have an independent existence and an intelligence of their own, that they are wiser than we are, wiser even than their discoverers ... — Heinrich Hertz