Spruill Chart Quotes & Sayings

I cannot say and no man could say that no more will be asked of us. — Lyndon B. Johnson

For realists, war is like surgery-a painful and dangerous activity that is sometimes necessary ... A pacifist is like a Christian Scientist who is against surgery even when the alternative is the crippling or death of the patient. — Michael Lind

When you take your heart out of your chest and hold it out for all to see, it's not like you can expect everyone not to notice. Phin — Sarah Addison Allen

I think sports is one of the places where race plays itself out publicly. Although we pretend it doesn't. — Claudia Rankine

Newspapers have roughly the same relationship to life as fortune-tellers to metaphysics. — Karl Kraus

All places are filled with fools.
[Lat., Stultorum plenea sunt omnia.] — Marcus Tullius Cicero

All music has to speak in some form or other. — Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

...if I have learned any one thing over the years, it's that life contains too many variables for us to be absolutely certain about anything. In the last analysis, there is no accounting for the human factor. It is always easier to deal with things than with men, and no one can direct his life entirely as he would choose. — Harry Haskell

Finally he steeled himself to read the final rule again. He had been trained since earliest childhood, since his earliest learning of language, never to lie. It was an integral part of the learning of precise speech. Once, when he had been a Four, he had said, just prior to the midday meal at school, "I'm starving." Immediately he had been taken aside for a brief private lesson in language precision. He was not starving, it was pointed out. He was hungry. No one in the community was starving, had ever been starving, would ever be starving. To say "starving" was to speak a lie. An unintentioned lie, of course. But the reason for precision of language was to ensure that unintentional lies were never uttered. Did he understand that? they asked him. And he had. — Lois Lowry

Don't ever prophesy; for if you prophesy wrong, nobody will forget it; and if you prophesy right, nobody will remember it. — Josh Billings

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"I Love You," I say, and as I watch his smile bloom I finally get how great those three little words are. I finally get what they really mean. — Elizabeth Scott

From an early age, my father stressed the power of the image, and he encouraged me to carefully control my own. He advised me, for example, never to be photographed from below, an often unflattering angle for women. — Liz Goldwyn

Vaccines are the tugboats of preventive health. — William Foege

There might be some brilliant intentionality in it all, that holiness was created to stand in mankind's filth to lift mankind out of that very filth. — Craig D. Lounsbrough