Semisacred Quotes & Sayings

All the cunning of the devil is exercised in trying to tear us away from the word. — Martin Luther

Prices have stayed up because people in control of supply decided they could keep them up. — John Wilson

Usually when an athlete gets a reputation it sticks with him, even when he's an old man. — Frank Deford

I am a relationship phoenix: I crash and burn and then I rise and start again. — Ted Michael

There is a profound contrast between the effects of foreign aid and of voluntary private investment: foreign aid goes from government to government. It is therefore almost inevitably statist and socialistic. — Henry Hazlitt

Now my wife may think she's locked me out of the kitchen but MacGyver's not my patron saint for nothing. — Alton Brown

If you expect more from yourself than from others, you are saying that you are better than others and, therefore, must perform at a superior level. I do not mean that you should not set goals for yourself. Rather, the question is, how do you react if you cannot meet these goals? Honestly admitting that you may have not done your best is not judgement. It is judgement when you draw a conclusion about yourself based on your ideas about failure.
Honesty involves taking responsibility; judgment has to do with blame. To view yourself as bad or a failure because you did not accomplish what you set out to do is judgment. To state clearly and simply that you did not accomplish your plan is taking responsibility. — Judith Hanson Lasater

Winning is a feeling you have no ceiling. — Denis Waitley

One trouble: to be a professional anything in the United States is to think of oneself as an expert and one's ideas as semisacred, and to treat others in a certain way - professionally. — Marge Piercy

In morality, man treats himself not as individuum but as dividuum. — Friedrich Nietzsche