Stop Normalizing Quotes & Sayings

We need to internalize this idea of excellence. Not many folks spend a lot of time trying to be excellent. — Barack Obama

The laws evolved by one particular species, for the convenience of that species, are, by their nature, concerned only with the capacities of that species - against a species with different capacities they simply become inapplicable. — John Wyndham

When the north pole comes so close as to touch the south pole, the earth disappears and man finds himself in a void that makes his head spin and beckons him to fall. — Milan Kundera

There is no aloneness. There is only unawareness. — Lynne Cockrum-Murphy

In sum, freedom can run a monetary system as superbly as it runs the rest of the economy. Contrary to many writers, there is nothing special about money that requires extensive governmental dictation. Here, too, free men will best and most smoothly supply all their economic wants. For money as for all other activities of man, liberty is the mother, not the daughter, of order. — Murray N. Rothbard

The fact is that if Jesus's future kingdom is secure, those who trust in its coming will enact it now. — Alan Hirsch

In short, Nance, even was you going to the very devil himself, your mother and I would rather see you fly from us in joy, than stay with us in sorrow - and grow, maybe, to hate us, for keeping you from your fate. — Sarah Waters

Music is my higher power — Oliver James

Passion costs me too much to bestow it on every trifle. — Thomas Adams

Sure, I'm crazy. But that used to mean something. Now, everybody's crazy. — Charles Manson

One strong idea being put forth these days (...) is that women should above all be given choice. (...) But this "right to choose" whether or not we provide for ourselves has contributed mightily to the female achievement gap. Because they have the social option to stay home, women can - and often do - back off from assuming responsibility for themselves. (...) There is something wrong with this. (...) We want so desperately to believe that we do not have to be responsible for our own welfare. — Colette Dowling