Preservatory Jam Quotes & Sayings

He looked like he'd see the lifespan of the human race a thousand times, and had swallowed its history of violence, of sadness, of loss. — Quil Carter

This was perfectly true, and a very respectable view widely held by right-thinking people, who are largely recognizable as being right-thinking people by the mere fact that they hold this view. — Douglas Adams

Lawyers are men whom we hire to protect us from lawyers. — Elbert Hubbard

Cooking is not difficult. Everyone has taste, even if they don't realize it. Even if you're not a great chef, there's nothing to stop you understanding the difference between what tastes good and what doesn't. — Gerard Depardieu

It is not those who commit the least faults who are the most holy, but those who have the greatest courage, the greatest generosity, the greatest love, who make the boldest efforts to overcome themselves, and are not immediately apprehensive about tripping. — Saint Francis De Sales

For a lot of women, one of the hardest things about leadership is the desire to be liked by everyone. That's often inconsistent with leadership. It's certainly inconsistent with taking positions on very controversial issues. — Sarah Weddington

there was this one family in Sarasota that was even identical. people couldn't tell who the father was, the mother was, the son was. they were all so happy that it didn't matter who they were. eventually a circus bought them and charged admission for people to see them in their natural happy habitat. spectators would come from all across the state to see them eat dinner together, watch the same channels together, talk to each other at length. People called them freaks not because they were identical, but because they were so
damn
happy. — David Levithan

Clean energy is hippy power. But its also cowboy power, it's rancher power, it's Appalachian power. — Van Jones

One of the major lessons in all of biochemistry, cell biology and molecular medicine is that when proteins operate at the sub cellular level, they behave in a certain way as if they're mechanical machinery. — James Rothman

One has to live with the fact that some corporate decisions are going to be wrong. As long as most of the decisions are right. — Michael Otto

Of course, Minneapolis, we think, 'Oh well, it's cold there, lethally cold.' But the reality is you adapt to weather ... Humans are consummately adaptable creatures. — Dan Buettner

Being disabled doesn't have to be a disadvantage. — Oscar Pistorius

A child lies like a grey pebble on the shore until a certain teacher picks him up and dips him in water, and suddenly you see all the colours and patterns in the dull stone, and it's marvelous for the stone and marvelous for the teacher. — Elizabeth Hay

An Iranian foundation offered the earthly reward of $3 million. — Nick Cohen

Notion without intuition is empty, intuition without notion is blind. — Immanuel Kant