Ourownselveslookingbackatus Quotes & Sayings

If God were an object to the bird, he would be a winged being[.] — Ludwig Feuerbach

Maybe you misunderstood.. A world without Haruka isn't a world worth saving. - Michiru/Sailor Neptune — Naoko Takeuchi

It seldom pays to be rude. It never pays to be only half-rude. — Norman Douglas

I don't think we handled the aftermath of the fall of Baghdad as well as we might have. But that's now history. — Colin Powell

Foolish tongues will always wag, ma'am, but people of goodwill ignore them. — Jennifer Paynter

It's the fault of the chess players themselves. I don't know what they used to be, but now they're not the most gentlemanly group. When it was a game played by the aristocrats it had more like you know dignity to it. When they used to have the clubs, like no women were allowed and everybody went in dressed in a suit, a tie, like gentlemen, you know. Now, kids come running in their sneakers. Even in the best chess club-and they got women in there. It's a social place and people are making noise, it's a madhouse. — Bobby Fischer

There are two kinds of businesses: The first earns 12%, and you can take it out at the end of the year. The second earns 12%, but all the excess cash must be reinvested - there's never any cash. It reminds me of the guy who looks at all of his equipment and says, 'There's all of my profit.' We hate that kind of business. — Charlie Munger

And little girls went to charm schools. Now you've all got degrees from the University of Sarcasm. — Ian Rankin

I was once a student in a punk T-Shirt hooked on screwed-up scenarios. That's how I became the esteemed cultural figure that I am today. — Bruce Sterling

My mom has always told me that beauty fades but inner beauty is forever. There's nothing more beautiful than a woman [who] takes care of [herself]. — Beyonce Knowles

The past is reinvented and becomes the future. But the lineage is everything. — Philip Glass

God answers faith-filled complaints with grace, with character development, with power to persevere, and with a long-term plan that makes all things turn out right in the end. — Greg Pruett

I am apparently gentle, unstable, and full of pretenses. I will die a poet killed by the nonpoets, will renounce no dream, resign myself to no ugliness, accept nothing of the world but the one I made myself. I wrote, lived, loved like Don Quixote, and on the day of my death I will say: 'Excuse me, it was all a dream,' and by that time I may have found one who will say: 'Not at all, it was true, absolutely true. — Anais Nin

Sometimes a few birds, a horse, have saved the ruins of an amphitheater. — Jorge Luis Borges

Grace is for the desperate, the needy, the broken, those who cannot make it on their own. Grace is for all of — Philip Yancey