Purdue Owl Formatting Quotes & Sayings

I'm as proud of many of the things we haven't done as the things we have done. Innovation is saying no to a thousand things. — Steve Jobs

Sometimes [playing free] doesn't happen, because maybe a guy's wife'll come in, you know, and his ego will catch him. If everybody's completely just straight-without any old ladies over here, a fourth of whisky over there; if it's balanced right, it'll come off. It has to be. But when you get egos involved with playing free, you can't do it. — Miles Davis

He, therefore, who acquires such a State, if he mean to keep it, must see to two things; first, that the blood of the ancient line of Princes be destroyed; second, that no change be made in respect of laws or taxes; for in this way the newly acquired State speedily becomes incorporated with the hereditary. — Niccolo Machiavelli

God tests His people through hardship. — John Piper

A beautiful person among the Greeks, was thought to betray by this sign some secret favor of the immortal gods; and we can pardonpride, when a woman possesses such a figure that wherever she stands, or moves, or leaves a shadow on the wall, or sits for a portrait to the artist, she confers a favor on the world. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Franklin thought that if he could maintain his devotion to one virtue for an entire week, it would become a habit; then he could move on to the next virtue, successively making fewer and fewer offenses (indicated on the calendar by a black mark) until he had completely reformed himself and would thereafter need only occasional bouts of moral maintenance. The — Mason Currey

The observance of the laws of Christ cannot be less necessary than the observance of the laws of Moses was. — Matthew Henry

If you want to know how I feel, I'll summarize it in one word - terrible. — Gary Bettman

The greatest propaganda coup of the American Right has been to convince its citizens that we are in the grip of a liberal conspiracy. — Shane Smith

I began to see during the civil war, in that part of the states of Missouri and Kansas where the doctors were shut out, the children did not die. — Andrew Taylor Still

I couldn't live with myself if I thought nothing could get better. — Gloria Whelan