Outduels Quotes & Sayings

If you are not being bullied all I would say - cause I like to talk about the other side of it as well - is you know, be someone that nurtures, and if there's someone in your class that maybe doesn't have a lot of friends, be the person that sits with them in the cafeteria sometimes; be the bigger person. — Lady Gaga

Fairytales teach children that the world is fraught with danger, including life-threatening danger; but by being clever (always), honest (as a rule, but with common-sense exceptions), courteous (especially to the elderly, no matter their apparent social station), and kind (to anyone in obvious need), even a child can succeed where those who seem more qualified have failed.
And this precisely what children most need to hear.
To let them go on believing that the world is safe, that they will be provided for and achieve worthwhile things even if they remain stupid, shirk integrity, despise courtesy, and act only from self-interest, that they ought to rely on those stronger, smarter, and more able to solve their problems, would be the gravest disservice: to them, and to society as a whole.
-On the Supposed Unsuitability of Fairytales for Children — J. Aleksandr Wootton

He directed that the stone over his grave be inscribed: Hic jacet hujus sententiae primus auctor: DISPUTANDI PRURITUS ECCLESIARUM SCABIES. — Izaak Walton

Violence and racism are bad. Whenever they occur they are to be condemned and we should not turn a blind eye to them. — Cate Blanchett

Everyone should be praised by the lips of his neighbor, and not by his own mouth. Everyone should be commended by the work he has done, not by what he wanted to do. — Mike Aquilina

The scheme of separate confederacies, which will always multiply the chances of ambition, will be a never failing bait to all such influential characters in the State administrations as are capable of preferring their own emolument and advancement to the public weal. — Alexander Hamilton

The negro has maintained his racial purity by his well known habit of
avoiding baths — Che Guevara

In the morning I had decided that henceforth I only cared for easy loves. It is so degrading to have to persuade people into liking one, or one's works. — Sylvia Townsend Warner

Architecture is a discourse; everything is a discourse. Fashion discourse is actually a micro-discourse, because it's centered around the body. It is the most rapidly developing form of discourse. — Nate Lowman

In Hollywood I thought I was large and klutzy, like the characters I played. — Madeline Kahn

You can't walk lonely in nature because nature is full of friends! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

There's a part of me that never felt my mother abandoned me. I always felt that she did the right thing. — Robert Battle

Don't forget this, too: Rumors aren't interested in the unsensational story; rumors don't care what's true. — John Irving

Acting is illusion, as much illusion as magic is, and not so much a matter of being real. — Laurence Olivier