Rulys Quotes & Sayings

When we say that the persistence of competition is ensured by fate, we mean that individual freedom is so guaranteed. The one thing to which fate binds us is liberty. — John Bates Clark

The whole speculation about morality is an effort to find a way of living which men who live it will instinctively feel is good. — Walter Lippmann

I am not happy with moral victories. Those things are forgotten. — Bobby Bowden

Most people dread finding out when they come to die that they have never really lived. — Henry David Thoreau

No virtue is more universally accepted as a test of good character than trustworthiness . — Harry Emerson Fosdick

Look long enough, out or in, and you'll be glad you are who you are. — Susan Vreeland

We should distinguish carefully skepticism about Big Government from contempt for all government. — Mitch Daniels

My best advice is never to address any woman as Madam unless she holds a high position in government or you happen to find yourself in a brothel speaking to its owner. — David B. Lentz

Switzerland is a curst, selfish, swinish country of brutes, placed in the most romantic region of the world. — Lord Byron

I'm self-opinionated, and I have a sense of self. I can be brutal with agents and have been. — Paul Eenhoorn

Philip May is known in politics as a man who has taken a back seat and allowed his wife, Theresa, to shine."

Allowed.

Now let us reverse it. Theresa May has allowed her husband to shine. Does it make sense? If Philip May were prime minister, perhaps we might hear that his wife had "supported" him from the background, or that she was "behind" him, or that she'd "stood by his side," but we would never hear that she had "allowed" him to shine.

"Allow" is a troubling word. "Allow" is about power. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Always refer to those of the female gender as ladies.
The descriptive woman is usually reserved in Dixie for females of questionable respect. — Ann Barrett Batson

He hardly heard what Professor McGonagall was telling them about Animagi (wizards who could transform at will into animals), and wasn't even watching when she transformed herself in front of their eyes into a tabby cat with spectacle markings around her eyes.
"Really, what has got into you all today?" said Professor McGonagall, turning back into herself with a faint pop, and staring around at them all. "Not that it matters, but that's the first time my transformation's not got applause from a class."
Everybody's heads turned toward Harry again, but nobody spoke. Then Hermione raised her hand. "Please, Professor, we've just had our first Divination class, and we were reading the tea leaves, and - "
"Ah, of course," said Professor McGonagall, suddenly frowning. "There is no need to say any more, Miss Granger. Tell me, which of you will be dying this year? — J.K. Rowling

God Himself - His thoughts, His will, His love, His judgments are men's home. To think His thoughts, to choose His will, to judge His judgments, and thus to know that He is in us, with us,
is to be at home. — George MacDonald

It is a rather amazing fact that, of the very many dimensions along which the genital activity of one person can be differentiated from that of another (dimensions that include preference for certain acts, certain zones or sensations, certain physical types, a certain frequency, certain symbolic investments, certain relations of age or power, a certain species, a certain number of participants, and so on) precisely one, the gender of the object choice, emerged from the turn of the century, and has remained, as THE dimension denoted by the now ubiquitous category of 'sexual orientation. — Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick