Saduna Quotes & Sayings

Epictetus would reject this manner of dealing with insults as being woefully counterproductive. He would point out, to begin with, that the political correctness movement has some untoward side effects. One is that the process of protecting disadvantaged individuals from insults will tend to make them hypersensitive to insults: They will, as a result, feel the sting not only of direct insults but of implied insults as well. — William B. Irvine

My end goal in the piano is to play Scott Joplin's 'Maple Leaf Rag.' — Miranda Leek

I don't dislike anybody. — Joel Osteen

[H]e was damned if he was going to water down his arguments simply to satisfy the preference of the mob for dogma and ignorance. — Ben Elton

We're so special, when you look in the dictionary under short bus, there's a group picture of us,' Stevie Rae said, sounding weak but definately alive. — Kristin Cast

but he was soon back, cuddling up behind me. — Jodi Ellen Malpas

The bourgeoisie cannot exist without constantly revolutionizing the instruments of production, and thereby the relations of production, and with them the whole relations of society. Conservation of the old modes of production in unaltered forms, was, on the contrary, the first condition of existence for all earlier industrial classes. Constant revolutionizing of production, uninterrupted disturbance of all social conditions, everlasting uncertainty and agitation, distinguish the bourgeois epoch from all earlier ones. All fixed, fast-frozen relations, with their train of ancient and venerable prejudices and opinions, are swept away; all new-formed ones become antiquated before they can ossify. All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses his real conditions of life and his relations with his kind. — Karl Marx

Even if someone is competent, it's so damned easy to crucify him as long as he's only working on his father's account. So at the beginning I certainly wanted to prove myself to my father and the rest of society. That quickly turned into a greater challenge. My lifestyle hasn't changed as a result. — Stelios Haji-Ioannou

Go therefore, and do that which is within you to do. Take no heed of gestures that beckon you aside. Ask of no man permission to perform. — Winifred Holtby

People who to back and chastise themselves, or second guess themselves, for making a wrong decision or a weak decision continues to set themselves up for failure in future decisions simply because they don't trust themselves. — Jeffrey Gitomer

My only model for being a father was my father, an illiterate on the margin of society. — Gerard Depardieu

The Pledge clearly acknowledges the fact that our freedoms in this country come from God, not government. — Jay Alan Sekulow