Oxendine Tire Quotes & Sayings

Students are often in no position to judge 'relevance' until long after the fact. — Thomas Sowell

Right? Or is writing like everything else in my life where I don't quite measure up?

Loved, but not quite the Gabrielle they had in mind.

Fine for hanging out and talking with, but not cool enough to include in plans.

'Perfect,' yet not someone to be seen with.

Why did I think writing would be any different? — Stephanie Morrill

The twentieth century provides little or no evidence in any corner of the globe to support the contention that religion causes most human conflict. — Michael Medved

By nature I am not tough, believe it or not. — Jennifer Lopez

[T]he strongest defense of the humanities lies not in the appeal to their utility - that literature majors may find good jobs, that theaters may economically revitalize neighborhoods - but rather in the appeal to their defiantly nonutilitarian character, so that individuals can know more than how things work, and develop their powers of discernment and judgment, their competence in matters of truth and goodness and beauty, to equip themselves adequately for the choices and the crucibles of private and public life. — Leon Wieseltier

[An] act of the Congress of the United States ... which assumes powers ... not delegated by the Constitution, is not law, but is altogether void and of no force. — Thomas Jefferson

Well is it said that neither love nor power Admit a rival, even for an hour. — Geoffrey Chaucer

The oldest problem in economic education is how to exclude the incompetent. A certain glib mastery of verbiage-the ability to speak portentously and sententiously about the relation of money supply to the price level-is easy for the unlearned and may even be aided by a mildly enfeebled intellect. The requirement that there be ability to master difficult models, including ones for which mathematical competence is required, is a highly useful screening device. — John Kenneth Galbraith

I always imagined heaven being a place far, far away with winged babies playing harps and floating on the clouds. Now honestly, that doesn't sound like a place where I want to be for eternity. It sounds terrible and boring. In fact, if I ever saw a naked chubby baby with wings, I'd probably run as fast as I could the other way; I — Jefferson Bethke

Between two evils, choose neither; between two goods, choose both. — Tryon Edwards

The power of gentleness is irresistible. — Henry Martyn