Ralph Civilised Quotes & Sayings

Economics is a very difficult subject. I've compared it to trying to learn how to repair a car when the engine is running. — Ben Bernanke

[The media] cannot, month in month out and year in and year out, make the kind of untruthful, of bitter assault that they have made and not expect that brutal, violent natures, or brutal and violent characters, especially when the brutality is accompanied by a not very strong mind; they cannot expect that such natures will be unaffected by it. — Theodore Roosevelt

All walking is discovery. On foot we take the time to see things whole. — Hal Borland

I can't tell you how many shows I've done with full-blown migraine headaches. — Jonathan Taylor Thomas

The categories used in psychiatric diagnosis are based on observation of signs and symptoms, rather than on pathological processes. One can make use of a few signs, such as facial expressions associated with depression or the flight of ideas associated with mania. But what clinicians mainly use for diagnosis are symptoms, the subject experiences reported by patients. Psychiatrists have little knowledge of the processes that lie behind these phenomena. Thus psychiatric diagnoses, with very few exceptions, are syndromes, not diseases. — Joel Paris

Prayer does not change the purpose of God. But prayer does change the action of God. — Chuck Smith

That which is painful sharpens one's love. — Andrew Davidson

I guess you've got a spice of temper," commented Mr. Harrison, surveying the flushed cheeks and indignant eyes opposite him. "It goes with hair like yours, I reckon — L.M. Montgomery

Belinda is not quite so great a philosopher as I imagined. — Maria Edgeworth

When a person can see into your soul, it's hard. It forces you to be open.
Vulnerable. It's much easier being with someone who's just more of a casual friend. - Dimitri — Richelle Mead

What is broken remains so, it is the way of things. — Anthony Ryan

The term developed out of a recognition that you have to integrate development and operations tasks to develop software efficiently. The kind of workflow you want to enable is one in which you can develop an app, deploy it, learn from production usage of it, change it in response to what you learn, and repeat the cycle quickly and reliably. — Scott Guthrie

I have N'Sync and Aerosmith and Britney Spears. I have a trifecta from hell. — Lewis Black

As we age, there are different things that become important to us and that means that different aspects of our character come to the forefront; certain aspects recede. And that's fun. It would be shitty to have to imitate myself. — David Duchovny