Quotes & Sayings About Parents Always Being Right

The French probably invented the very notion of discretion. It's not that they feel that what you don't know won't hurt you; they feel that what you don't know won't hurt them. To the French lying is simply talking. — Fran Lebowitz

I was thinking about how fleeting and precious life is. Life is also arbitrary. For example, the choices that you make, the luck of being born into the right bed, to parents who support and help you and who love you. That doesn't always happen - and then, what happens when it doesn't? — Mary Ellen Mark

A margin of safety is achieved when securities are purchased at prices sufficiently below underlying value to allow for human error, bad luck, or extreme volatility in a complex, unpredictable and rapidly changing world. — Seth Klarman

I'm very glad that [the death penalty] hasn't existed for many years in the U.K. — Hilary Swank

What showers arise, blown with the windy tempest of my heart — William Shakespeare

The political process consists entirely of politicians talking out of their butts. — P. J. O'Rourke

I don't smile. I have all these thoughts. Crazy thoughts. Like, on the one hand, I want to kiss her passionately, like they do in movies, and just paralyze her with the feeling of how much I want to take care of her — A.S. King

I don't really date. I have a weird vision of relationships because my parents have known each other since second grade, and they got married right out of college. I've always thought that's what it's supposed to be like, and if it's not, then I don't want to waste my time on it. Even when I was 14, I was like, 'I'm not gonna marry this person. What's the point of doing it?' It's not me being naive. I just know what it's supposed to be like, and I think until I feel that, I cannot be bothered. — Dakota Fanning

Sex as you like it is an animal right -- no mere civil liberty. Defend it with your beak and claw. — Irving Rosenthal

People love steak all over the United States. — Michael Mina

The compass of accurate knowledge directs the shortest, safest, cheapest course to any destination — Claude C. Hopkins