Slurped Def Quotes & Sayings

There is almost nothing more common than the belief that one is above average in intelligence, wisdom, honesty, etc. — Sam Harris

We have created a Star Wars civilization, with Stone Age emotions, medieval institutions, and godlike technology. — Edward O. Wilson

To me I seem to be constantly growing. I must respond to varying conditions, yet remain changeless within. — Mahatma Gandhi

So did yours. Joseph's pit came in the form of a cistern. Maybe yours came in the form of a diagnosis, a foster home, or a traumatic injury. Joseph was thrown in a hole and despised. And you? Thrown in an unemployment line and forgotten. Thrown into a divorce and abandoned, into a bed and abused. The pit. A kind of death, waterless and austere. Some people never recover. Life is reduced to one quest: get out and never be hurt again. Not simply done. Pits have no easy exits. — Max Lucado

Never be afraid to try something new. Remember, amateurs built the ark; professionals built the Titanic. Never, btw, ask that androgynous paper clip anything. S/he is just a stooge for management, leading you down more rabbit holes of options for things called Wizards, Macros, Templates, and Cascading Style Sheets. — Louis Menand

I just think you should get married if you want to have some kids. — John Corbett

Any time I claimed to be white, that would be unacceptable. It just doesn't make sense in people's minds. If I'm white, how can I walk through a department store and still have people scared that I'm going to rob them? Which, that can still happen. — Jordan Peele

It's not about WHO is right, it's about WHAT is right. — Tara Dupuis

Generosity wins favour for everyone, especially when it is accompanied by modesty. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

In life we must be willing to take risks, for that is the only way progress is attained. — Ndiritu Wahome

But he didn't know how to take my repression, wring it out, and throw it out the window. He didn't know how to fuck it out of me or quietly tell me to get undressed in the night air while he watched in such a way that wouldn't make me laugh. I couldn't have given Kevin my orgasms, because he didn't want them. I could never have asked him to hurt me, because he would have. — C.D. Reiss

I was in Japan a couple of months ago, I saw a preview for the movie Pearl Harbor. And they showed the Japanese airplanes coming in to bomb Pearl Harbor, and I applauded. Nobody else in the theater applauded. — Bobby Fischer

But destiny will be accomplished, and the best man will hold his ground while the undeserving one will vanish into his back-alley for ever - his filthy back-alley, his beloved back-alley, where he is at home and where he will sink in filth and stench at his own free will with enjoyment. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I'm not the greatest; I'm the double greatest. Not only do I knock 'em out, I pick the round. — Muhammad Ali