Subsiding Air Quotes & Sayings

It's hard to legislate what people eat. People are getting fed up with being told what they can and can't do. It boils down to personal responsibility. People need to read labels, do their research and act accordingly. — Tom Douglas

Guess what, I'm the opposite of a role model! — Natalia Kills

I think one of the dirty little secrets that I try to reveal here is that Washington is not hopelessly divided. It's very interconnected. We're talking about people sort of feeding from the same insider trough, where if you are known as an insider, you are going to get paid and do very, very, very well. — Mark Leibovich

The religious Jew is to study Torah for the sake of studying Torah. Torah lishmah. The ingenuity of the edict, I realized was that it relieved you of the obligation to be qualified. You studied because you had to study, and those who taught had to take you as a student. — Judith Shulevitz

Reform must come from within, not from without. You cannot legislate for virtue. — James Gibbons

Let a man be stimulated by poetry, established by the rules of propriety, and perfected by music. — Confucius

Fate can only get you so far. It can put you down the right path or introduce you to a particular person, but the rest is up to you. Even the strongest storm need a wind to carry them in. — Katie Kacvinsky

A Stander-by is often a better judge of the game than those that play. — Samuel Richardson

His dark hair looked like it had been teased by the spinning blades of a turbo prop, his black on black ensemble looked like it had walked out of the local "Depressed Teens Shop Here" store, and his flanking goons were dressed to match."
(on Obsidian Chylde) — J.R. O'Bryant

A man is the sum of his actions. — D.W. Wilkin

Shameworthiness lies in the space between who we are and how we present ourselves to the world — Jon Ronson