Overlighted Quotes & Sayings

A good leader can engage in a debate frankly and thoroughly, knowing that at the end he and the other side must be closer, and thus emerge stronger. You don't have that idea when you are arrogant, superficial, and uninformed. — Nelson Mandela

The sale begins when the customer says yes. — Harvey MacKay

If you don't sleep you get run down. Sloths never get a flu, cos its good innit thats when your body's replemishing — Karl Pilkington

I placed a jar in Tennessee and round it
was upon a hill. — Wallace Stevens

Do you know what causes low voter turnout in America? It's the result of having the fate of our nation at stake. This began with the bitter presidential election of 1828, which pitted the education, cultivation, and puritan constraint of John Quincy Adams against the yahoo populism of Andrew Jackson, thereby deciding permanently whether America would become a shining city upon a hill or an overlighted strip mall along a highway. — Ozzy Osbourne

Parents and therapists offer unconditional love without needing it to be returned, yet both sides grow in love, understanding, and acceptance. — Jed Diamond

Harsh verdict of the great philosopher Lucretius: all religions were fundamentally immoral, because the superstitions they peddled wrought more evil than good. — Arthur C. Clarke

In the meanest are all the materials of manhood, only they are not rightly disposed. — Henry David Thoreau

No one has told Jon's wife that he and I were once in love, I suppose?"
Holly shook her head.
"I'd rather they didn't, then."
"of course not, my dear. I'll see to it. The child's nice, I think."
"Nice," said Fleur, "but not important. — John Galsworthy

Failure in life does not matter; the greatest misfortune is standing still. — Hazrat Inayat Khan

Shoot the Wendybird! — J.M. Barrie

Just as the dog loves to chew bones, the human mind loves its problems. — Eckhart Tolle