Systematically Def Quotes & Sayings

The test of political institutions is the condition of the country whose future they regulate. — Benjamin Disraeli

I, unfortunately, take the subway a lot. It's not my preference, but it is my lot in life. — Fran Lebowitz

I was born in New York City but grew up across the Hudson River in Alpine, New Jersey. — Eric Maskin

Satisfy a few to please many is bad. — Friedrich Schiller

No Matter what you do there will be critics. — Woody Allen

Analyzing baseball yields many numbers of interest and value. Yet far and away- far, far and away- the most critical number in all of baseball is 3: the three outs that define an inning. Until the third out, anything is possible; after it, nothing is. [Eric Walker] — Michael Lewis

It is not my words that I polish, but my ideas. 102 — Joseph Joubert

Not all Muslims may be terrorists, but all terrorists are Muslims. — Ann Coulter

Experience, which destroys innocence, also leads one back to it. — James A. Baldwin

The interesting thing about the miracle berry in chemo patients is that it actually straightens out their taste buds, whereas for you and I, it blocks our bitter and sour receptors. For them, it straightens them out to taste food as it normally tastes. — Homaro Cantu

I hate the confessional. I love leaving the confessional. I hate going to the confessional. I would be a mess without it. — Lino Rulli

The city was in a panic, though a panic in Italy means most people still stand around coffee bars drinking espresso and Prosecco. — Magnus Flyte

You get born and you try this and you don't know why only you keep on trying it and you are born at the same time with a lot of other people, all mixed up with them, like trying to, having to, move your arms and legs with strings only the same strings are hitched to all the other arms and legs and the others all trying and they don't know why either except that the strings are all in one another's way like five or six people all trying to make a rug on the same loom only each one wants to weave his own pattern into the rug; and it can't matter, you know that, or the Ones that set up the loom would have arranged things a little better, and yet it must matter because you keep on trying or having to keep on trying and then all of a sudden it's all over. — William Faulkner

Don't show off every day, or you'll stop surprising people. There must always be some novelty left over. The person who displays a little more of it each day keeps up expectations, and no one ever discovers the limits of his talent. — Baltasar Gracian