Sharpers Quotes & Sayings

No justification of virtue will enable a man to be virtuous. Without the aid of trained emotions the intellect is powerless against the animal organism. I had sooner play cards against a man who was quite skeptical about ethics, but bred to believe that 'a gentleman does not cheat', than against an irreproachable moral philosopher who had been brought up among sharpers. — C.S. Lewis

Out of all these people, Zarathustra is unique. He is the only one who is not against life, who is for life; whose god is not somewhere else, whose god is nothing but another name for life itself. And to live totally, to live joyously and to live intensely, is all that religion is based on. I — Osho

I don't care what anybody says about Ringo. I cut my rock-n-roll teeth listening to him. — Don Henley

Modest egotism is the salt of conversation; you do not want too much of it, but if it is altogether omitted, everything tastes flat. — Henry Van Dyke

I can discover no political evil in suffering bullies, sharpers, and rakes, to rid the world of each other by a method of their own; where the law hath not been able to find an expedient. — Jonathan Swift

Men neglect the duties incumbent on man, yet are treated like demi-gods; religion is also separated from morality by a ceremonial veil, yet men wonder that the world is almost, literally speaking, a den of sharpers or oppressors. — Mary Wollstonecraft

Good writers are often excellent at a hundred other things, but writing promises a greater latitude for the ego. — John Cheever

The three most important aspects of debugging and real estate are the same: Location, Location, and Location. — Richard E. Pattis

In such seconds of decision entire futures are made. — Dan Simmons

There would be consequences to this weekend, I knew that now and I wasn't lying to myself anymore. But maybe they wouldn't all be negative. Maybe I would walk away a better person because of my encounter with this man. Yes, it sure was, life was wild. — Mia Sheridan