Stereotypic Quotes & Sayings

The most important tactic in an argument next to being right is to leave an escape hatch for your opponent so that he can gracefully swing over to your side without an embarrassing loss of face. — Stephen Jay Gould

We are at the mercy of time, and for all the ways we are remembered, a sea of things will be lost. But how much is contained in what lingers! — Alice McDermott

It gives you the impression that every day is Sunday. — Marlene Dietrich

Tea Cake went out and wandered around. Saw the hand of horror on everything. — Zora Neale Hurston

This is an absurd moral, for you and I both know that sometimes not only is it good to lie, it is necessary to lie. — Lemony Snicket

Feminism is a tremendously underestimated force, viewed in the present context primarily as a woman's concern. The understanding has not yet percolated throughout society that the advancement of women is a program vitally connected to the survival of human beings as a species. The reason for this is simply that institutions take on the character of the atoms which compose them, and what we are most menaced by in the twentieth century are dehumanized institutions. If women played a major role in policy formation and execution on the part of these institutions, I think they would have a far more benign and ecologically sensitive kind of character. So I see feminism not as a kind of war between the sexes or any of these stereotypic images, but as actually a kind of effort to shift the ratios of our emphasis that is expressed through our institutions. — Terence McKenna

Start small, make a promise and keep it. Then, make larger promises and keep them. Eventually, your honor will become greater than your moods or your circumstances, which includes your medical condition and other people's stereotypic observations. Once you overcome this comparison based mentality, your confidence will soar. — Stephen Covey

People who are driven by love will overcome hardships and hurdles in ways that people who are only driven by profit never can. — Simon S. Tam