Stridency Define Quotes & Sayings

Foreign policy is effectively the assertion of many individual countries intersecting on the global marketplace. And you have to figure out how to get your interest served in a way that meets the interests and needs of these other folks. — John F. Kerry

I was merely making more perceptible that binary rhythm which love adopts in all those who have too little confidence in themselves to believe that a woman can ever fall in love with them, and also that they themselves can genuinely fall in love with her. They know themselves well enough to have observed that in the presence of the most divergent types of woman they felt the same hopes, the same agonies, invented the same romances, uttered the same words, and to have realised therefore that their feelings, their actions, bear no close and necessary relation to the woman they love, but pass to one side of her, splash her, encircle her, like the incoming tide breaking against the rocks, and their sense of their own instability increases still further their misgivings that this woman, by whom they so long to be loved, does not love them. — Marcel Proust

There is music wherever there is harmony, order and proportion; and thus far we may maintain the music of the spheres; for those well ordered motions, and regular paces, though they give no sound unto the ear, yet to the understanding they strike a note most full of harmony. — Thomas Browne

Consciousness of unconsciousness — Philip K. Dick

Peppermint stimulates brain activity and makes you concentrate better. Put a little peppermint oil under your nose or in a candle to get the benefits. — Eric Duck

The truth is, the person I've been hating more than anyone is myself. It is so easy. So easy to look in the mirror at all my imperfections and think of all the ways I fall short of someone ... — Hannah Harrington

The government is a tyrant living by theft, and therefore has no business to engage in any business. — Benjamin Tucker

Pissing off PETA is as easy as pie. Delicious kitten pie. — Stephen Colbert

Shakespeare said, Assume a virtue, if you have it not. — Dale Carnegie

How come we play war and not peace?" "Too few role models. — Bill Watterson

Messy spirituality is the delirious consequence of a life ruined by a Jesus who will love us right into his arms. — Michael Yaconelli

That's not a rat, that's my ferret. — Jennifer Aniston

We all carry our past. But it is a case of getting on with your life and improving it, if you want to. — Vinnie Jones