Splaine Quotes & Sayings

There are always risks in challenging excessive police power, but the risks of not challenging it are more dangerous, even fatal. — Hunter S. Thompson

Everything that matters hurts, until it doesn't matter anymore. — Dianna Hardy

Human experience, which is constantly contradicting theory, is the great test of truth. A system, built upon the discoveries of a great many minds, is always of more strength, than what is produced by the mere workings of any one mind, which, of itself, can do very little. There is not so poor a book in the world that would not be a prodigious effort were it wrought out entirely by a single mind, without the aid of prior investigators. — Samuel Johnson

If your beliefs are stressful and you question them, you come to see that they aren't true - whereas prior to questioning, you absolutely believe them. How can you live in joy when you're believing thoughts that bring on sadness, frustration, anger, alienation, and loneliness? — Byron Katie

The doctor asked what my diet was like and I had to sit down and realize it's not normal, and hadn't been normal for about 20 years. — Carre Otis

I don't want to just play the same thing. But with The Red Road, no one has ever seen me like that. No one really even knows that I smile, have a personality and have a sense of humor. — Jason Momoa

To me, money is a vehicle; it's a tool. I could use it as a weapon to destroy things or money can create-you can create an opportunity, you can create a charity, you can create things for your family, you can go do something for your family that nobody else would ever do. You can create educational opportunities, you can feed people overseas. And there's a tremendous leverage with money, or you can destroy people with it. — Tony Robbins

The Lady or The Tiger,'
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'My lady, the tiger, — Holly Black

What libertarians assert is simply that differences among normal adults do not imply different fundamental rights. — Tom G. Palmer

The best translations into English do not, in fact, read as if they were originally written in English. The English words are arranged in such a way that the reader sees a glimpse of another culture's patterns of thinking, hears an echo of another language's rhythms and cadences, and feels a tremor of another people's gestures and movements. I — Liu Cixin

We say that if America has entered the war to make the world safe for democracy, she must first make democracy safe in America. — Emma Goldman

When I started Cove, I spoke to three immigration lawyers who gave me a long checklist of things to do before my company could hire immigrants. — Ruchi Sanghvi

Different styles work for different guys ... If you can handle shortstop and hit, teams will find a way to pencil you into the lineup. — Cal Ripken Jr.