Stiffly Proper Quotes & Sayings

Facebook makes me hate the people I know, and Reddit makes me love the people I don't. — Alexis Ohanian

A piece of sculpture can have a hole through it and not be weakened if the hole is of a studied size, shape, and direction. — Henry Moore

But when a thing is tangibly idiotic, you can be sure that it is very powerful, very dangerous. You see, when we call a thing stupid, we think that we undo it, that we have overcome it somehow. Of course nothing of the sort happens; we have simply made a statement that it is very important, have advertised it, and it appeals to everybody. People think, thank heaven, here is something we can understand, and they eat it. But if we say something is very intelligent, they vanish and won't touch it. — C. G. Jung

Even-money that my liver lasts through my wife's metamorphosis to my mother-in-law. — Tim Heaton

This ninety-five-year-old man came hiking twenty-five miles over the mountain. Know why he could do it? Because no one ever told him he couldn't. No one ever told him he oughta be off dying somewhere in an old age home. You live up to your own expectations ... — Christopher McDougall

Someone Else's words can detour your potential! — John Di Lemme

What i know from history is this: Those who do not appreciate their freedom and aren't prepared to protect it, will lose it. — Christina Engela

He left me millions of time, but I am holding him with every breath with same madness — Seema Gupta

Situations in life often permit no delay; and when we cannot determine the course which is certainly best, we must follow the one which is probably the best. This frame of mind freed me also from the repentance and remorse commonly felt by those vacillating individuals who are always seeking as worthwhile things which they later judge to be bad. — Rene Descartes

I believe in giving everything my best shot. I do not believe in holding back. I am very driven by the fact that we are destined with these opportunities. — Shailender Singh

The subjectivist in morals, when his moral feelings are at war with the facts about him, is always free to seek harmony by toningdown the sensitiveness of the feelings. — William James

Thanks to impermanence, everything is possible. — Thich Nhat Hanh

Astrology, the noblest of sciences. — Dante Alighieri

I don't think writers change the past any more than other people do, except in so far as we may mine our lives and change things for fictional use. — Marge Piercy