Overdramatized And Puerile Quotes & Sayings

Our main conclusions about the state are that a minimal state, limited, to the narrow functions of protection against force, theft, fraud, enforcement of contracts, and so on, is justified, but any more extensive state will violate persons' rights not to be forced to do certain things, and is unjustified; and that the minimal state is inspiring as well as right. — Robert Nozick

I said: How can such an ocean be contained in a jar? He replied: "How can you even grasp the understanding of the how and the means of this? Who can come to realize the mastery of the work that has no like?!... Inside the limited, He lays the world of infinity. — Jalaluddin Rumi

After all is said and done, I believe the true measure of success is how many times you can bounce back from failure. — Ziad K. Abdelnour

I actually did ponder doing the Brad Pitt/Angelina Jolie thing and get a kid from Ethiopia. But you know, I already have an ashtray. — Zach Braff

We understand the world by how we retrieve memories, re-order information into stories to justify how we feel. — Stephen Elliott

We must meet the uncertainties of this world with the certainty of the world to come. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

In America, Jefferson noted with approval, women knew their place. — Stephen Ambrose

I can understand why you would want to be literally out of your own heard, because being inside your own head is unbearable. — Alyssa Brugman

When the answer comes do not brush it away.
Utilize it, as when the answer is available but not used, what's the use of receiving your answer? — Helena Kalivoda

Back there or maybe even taken an actual shit, and then tried to cover it up with a bunch of coconut air freshener that smelled like suntan lotion. The seats were greasy, and patched with duct tape, and the shocks were nearly gone. Whenever we struck a — Donna Tartt

I stole everything I ever heard, but mostly I stole from the horns. — Ella Fitzgerald

Justin looks familiar because he's an architect."
As far as an explanation goes, that one is pretty terrible. "Yes. And we all know each other through The Gay Architects Association. I forgot. Were you at the potluck last month?"
"Yup. I brought the pasta salad," Justin answers, without missing a beat.
Avery salutes him with his beer bottle. "It was really good. I liked the bacon."
"It was real too. Only straight architects put bacon bits in their pasta salad." Justin smiles. "I'm in it for the real meat."
"Aren't we all?" Avery laughs and clinks his beer bottle with Justin's.
"Oh, this was a good idea," Brandon says and sighs. "Introducing you two. — Avon Gale

Has it not ... invariably been found that momentary passions, and immediate interests, have a more active and imperious control over human conduct than general or remote considerations of policy, utility and justice? — Alexander Hamilton

From the consumer point of view, there may be questions about whether you'll have to be an AOL subscriber to get Time magazine, ... That combination of media with the access is one through which you may be able to block access to your competitors' subscribers. — Charlene Li