Proofing Box Quotes & Sayings

Cynicism is humor in ill health. — H.G.Wells

War is a series of disasters which result in a winner. — Georges Clemenceau

When he had made the payment for sin that God's people had needed all along, he said, "It is finished" and bowed his head, not in resignation, but in victory (John — Chris Bruno

Holy shit." Ethan's voice floated out to them through the open window. "Would the two of you just shut the fuck up and screw already? — Tess Bowery

When the Master governs, the people
are hardly aware that he exists.
Next best is a leader who is loved.
Next, one who is feared.
The worst is one who is despised.
If you don't trust people,
you make them untrustworthy.
The Master doesn't talk, he acts.
When his work is done,
the people say, Amazing:
we did it, all by ourselves! — Lao-Tzu

I just don't want the fear from the right to be used by the [Barack] Obama administration to silence critics. We have to be willing to tell the truth because we're trying to speak about conditions that are being rendered invisible in our prisons and schools in the hood and so forth and so on. — Cornel West

Turning seventy is like beginning the eighth inning of a baseball game. The contest is nearing completion, but there's likely to be some action, and even a few exciting plays, before the game draws to an end. — Mardy Grothe

Materialism is decadent and degenerate only if the spirit of the nation has withered and if individual people are so unimaginative that they wallow in it. — Brooks Atkinson

To mistrust science and deny the validity of scientific method is to resign your job as a human. You'd better go look for work as a plant or wild animal. — P. J. O'Rourke

Most novels, I find, are three times longer than they need to be. Very little happens, and I don't want to waste my time with them. — Chuck Palahniuk

When you are 25, 30, you know, you have no responsibility, no mortgage, no kids, no retirement to think about, nothing. — Eric Ripert

All history is but the lengthened shadow of a great man. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I used to walk down the street like I was a fucking star ... I want people to walk around delusional about how great they can be - and then to fight so hard for it every day that the lie becomes the truth. — Lady Gaga