Senzitive Quotes & Sayings

If there's a disaster, do you go over to your neighbor's house with: a) a covered dish or b) a shotgun? It's game theory. If you believe your neighbor is coming over with a shotgun, you'd be an idiot to pick a); if she believes the same thing about you, you can bet she's not going to choose a) either. The way to get to a) is to do a) even if you think your neighbor will pick b). Sometimes she'll point her gun at you and tell you to get off her land, but if she was only holding the gun because she thought you'd have one, then she'll put on the safety and you can have a potluck. — Cory Doctorow

No scheme of self-government, however benevolently or generously it may be bestowed upon us, will ever make us a self-governing nation, if we have no respect for the languages our mothers speak. — Mahatma Gandhi

I'd like to see a much more open Monarchy, myself. I used to think they were completely useless and we should get rid of them. I don't necessarily feel that way anymore. I'm still ambivalent, I still loathe the British class system, and the Royal family are the apex of the British class system. — Helen Mirren

Be bold about your right to be loved. — Tarryn Fisher

You live more in five minutes on a bike like this going flat out than some people live in a lifetime. — Burt Munro

When a paradox is widely believed, it is no longer recognized as a paradox. — Mason Cooley

The greatest grossness sometimes accompanies the greatest refinement, as a natural relief. — William Hazlitt

The great thing about life-the most magnificent thing about being these sentient human beings-is that we have been given the power of choice. — Bryant McGill

I think trying to be cool is the worst possible ambition - and I have never suffered from it. — Ben Elton

My decision to become a lawyer was irrevocably sealed when I realized my father hated the legal profession. — John Grisham

I never thought I could travel unless I had a wife or someone to share it with. You don't necessarily need that, but I am the type of person that wants to share a lot. — Leonardo DiCaprio

People think me a sort of Florence Nightingale, but I have no heroic qualities. I simply don't feel very much. — Franny Billingsley

A man like you is a god, not just a machine covered with skin, but a theater where fine feelings sprout and grow-and feelings are all that matters, as far as I'm concerned. Is a feeling anything but an entire world poured into a thought? — Honore De Balzac