Swatton Hughes Quotes & Sayings

Pathetic Earthlings ... There's not enough makeup in the universe to cover those hideous, age-ravaged potato sacks that you call faces. — Mary Kay Ash

If our economy of freedom fails to distribute wealth as ably as it has created it, the road to dictatorship will be open to any man who can persuasively promise security to all. — Will Durant

Humble people were unsettling at best. All that lack of backbone. It was just creepy. Like talking to linguine. — Laura Florand

When the Forbidden Fruit was handed to Adam and Eve, they were allowed the moral choice to accept or decline. I know people who have refused to feast on the money tree. They live simply, within their means, and seem far more content than those who are trying to horde their wealth while clinging to the ladder of 'success,' terrified to let go. That isn't real living. The Puritans rightly saw that as covetousness. — Cal Thomas

These people live in many lands, speak different languages, practice different religions, may even hate one another- yet none of these differences prevented them from cooperating to produce a pencil. How did it happen? Adam Smith gave us the answer two hundred years ago. — Milton Friedman

Write and create a blue sky
Forever with joy where I can fly. — Debasish Mridha

If I had a dollar for every time I said that, I'd be making money in a very weird way. — Mitch Hedberg

Life is a contact sport. Play or get off the field. — Jenn Brink

My mum and dad ran a family cafe in Sligo for 35 years and worked long hours. We grew up in a very hard-working family and had a lovely atmosphere, as we lived above the restaurant. It definitely made me want to work hard, whatever I chose to do. As the baby of seven kids, I was definitely a bit spoilt. — Shane Filan

It's hard to keep your balance standing tip-toe. — Laozi

I had to come from something, come from a place that was negative and positive but the majority of it is a negative place. — Kendrick Lamar

The point of being a teacher is to do more than impart facts, it's to shape the way students perceive the world, to help a student absorb the rules of a discipline. The teachers who do that get remembered. — David Brooks

What is essential in war is victory, not prolonged operations. — Sun Tzu

The spirit and determination of the people to chart their own destiny is the greatest power for good in human affairs. — Matt Blunt