Rat Pack Vegas Quotes & Sayings

I've never read anywhere that you have to understand everything before you take a feeble step in the right direction. — Daniel Foxx

Children are illuminated text-books, breviaries of doctrine, living bodies of divinity, open always and inviting their elders to peruse the characters inscribed on the lovely leaves. — Amos Bronson Alcott

If we cannot agree, then at least we ought to move on. — Ben Nelson

Backwards law. When you try to stay on the surface of the water, you sink; but when you try to sink, you float. — Alan W. Watts

Life is a never ending journey, so enjoy the adventure you are now experiencing — Paul V. Suffriti

I find something repulsive about the idea of vicarious redemption. I would not throw my numberless sins onto a scapegoat and expect them to pass from me; we rightly sneer at the barbaric societies that practice this unpleasantness in its literal form. There's no moral value in the vicarious gesture anyway. As Thomas Paine pointed out, you may if you wish take on a another man's debt, or even to take his place in prison. That would be self-sacrificing. But you may not assume his actual crimes as if they were your own; for one thing you did not commit them and might have died rather than do so; for another this impossible action would rob him of individual responsibility. So the whole apparatus of absolution and forgiveness strikes me as positively immoral, while the concept of revealed truth degrades the concept of free intelligence by purportedly relieving us of the hard task of working out the ethical principles for ourselves. — Christopher Hitchens

Apparently, using two spaces after a period has become anachronistic. But tell that to my right thumb. - — Dani Shapiro

Goodness, Time's rude hand defies,
And winter lives when beauty dies. — Henry Kirke White

My actual intake of different substances was far below what people thought it was, no matter how weird or outrageous they think I am. — Peter Fonda

Your guilt's got nothing on my guilt," Franny said. "Your guilt isn't even in the ballpark. — Ann Patchett

Sometimes if you want to achieve something great, there will be curveballs. You just have to dodge them every once in a while. — Katy Perry

We are all created equal parts stardust — Keegan Lester

I know we should aspire to be higher philosophical beings, contemplating the universe and becoming more refined humans, but if all we did was think, then arguably we'd never have invented the wheel. — Mariella Frostrup