Slackest Quotes & Sayings

The wish for healing has always been half of health. — Lucius Annaeus Seneca

There can be no difference between same-sex couples and opposite-sex couples anywhere in the USA. — Dahlia Lithwick

From books all I seek is to give myself pleasure by an honourable pastime: or if I do study, I seek only that branch of learning which deals with knowing myself and which teaches me how to live and die well ... — Michel De Montaigne

This is not an easy time for humorists because the government is far funnier than we are. — Art Buchwald

Meditation, then, is a state of mind in which the 'me' is absent. And therefore that very absence brings order. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

I am thankful for my struggle because without it, I wouldn't have stumbled upon my strength. — Alexandra Elle

When the stocks go up, the cocks go up! — Xaviera Hollander

There exists a limit to the force even the most powerful may apply without destroying themselves. Judging this limit is the true artistry of government. Misuse of power is the fatal sin. The law cannot be a tool of vengeance, never a hostage, nor a fortification against the martyrs it has created. You cannot threaten any individual and escape the consequences. — Frank Herbert

Matt Smith?" I said. "Really? You are not the Doctor, Bran. At your age, it is important to keep a lookout for excessive hubris. — Patricia Briggs

Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does. — Jane Austen

Believe in what you say. Then, live what you say. There is no greater credibility than conviction in action. — John C. Maxwell

Our enemies are Medes and Persians, men who for centuries have lived soft and luxurious lives; we of Macedon for generations past have been trained in the hard school of danger and war. Above all, we are free men, and they are slaves. There are Greek troops, to be sure, in Persian service - but how different is their cause from ours! They will be fighting for pay - and not much of at that; we, on the contrary, shall fight for Greece, and our hearts will be in it. As for our foreign troops - Thracians, Paeonians, Illyrians, Agrianes - they are the best and stoutest soldiers in Europe, and they will find as their opponents the slackest and softest of the tribes of Asia. And what, finally, of the two men in supreme command? You have Alexander, they - Darius! — Alexander The Great

Where families suffer from disasters that are preventable, this is a measure of a whole nation's neglect. A society imperils its own future when, out of negligence or contempt, it overlooks the need of children to be reared in a family ... or when, in the midst of plenty, some families cannot give their children adequate food and shelter, safe activity and rest, and an opportunity to grow into full adulthood as people who can care for and cherish other human beings like themselves. — Margaret Mead

If we have to use force, it is because we are America. We are the indispensable nation. We stand tall. We see further into the future. — Madeleine Albright

It is indeed a mortifying reflection to those who are actuated by the love of fame, so justly denominated the last infirmity of noble minds, that the wisest legislator and most exalted genius that ever reformed or enlightened the world can never expect such tributes of praise as are lavished on the memory of pretended saints, whose whole conduct was probably to the last degree odious or contemptible, and whose industry was entirely directed to the pursuit of objects pernicious to mankind. It is only a conqueror, a personage no less entitled to our hatred, who can pretend to the attainment of equal renown and glory. — David Hume