Thosewho Quotes & Sayings

Truth, but not the whole truth, must be the invariable principle of every man who hath either religion, honour, or prudence. Thosewho violate it, may be cunning, but they are not able. Lies and perfidy are the refuge of fools and cowards. — Lord Chesterfield

You [the teacher] do not merely insert a lot of facts, if you teach them [the students] properly. It is not like injecting 500 cc. of serum, or administering a year's dose of vitamins. — Gilbert Highet

Naturally, I was thrilled but being the first year, the Academy Awards had no background or tradition, and it naturally didn't mean what it does now. Had I known then what it would come to mean in the next few years, I'm sure I'd have been overwhelmed. At the time, I think I was more thrilled over meeting Douglas Fairbanks. — Janet Gaynor

Follow the pathway of the fear back into your heart to discover the things you love more than God. — Timothy J. Keller

Perhaps the people who hurt you the most when they leave are the ones you shouldn't have been with anyway, because they do it without compassion. — Neil Strauss

Anyone who suggests that there is a perfect symbiosis between the farmers' interest and the animals' is probably trying to sell you something (and it's not made of tofu) — Jonathan Safran Foer

If only your ears were not so formless, so clogged with meaning(s), that they are closed to what does not in some way echo the already heard" (p. 113, The Sex Which is Not One) — Irigaray, Luce

Every anonymous communication is deserving of contempt, just because it's not signed. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I have men in my life. I have a brother. So Maddox will have male teachers. I was raised without a father. — Angelina Jolie

A good man will extend his munificence to the industrious poor of all persuasions reduced by age, infirmity, or accident; to thosewho labour under incurable maladies; and to the youth of either sex, who are capable of beginning the world with advantage, but have not the means. — Samuel Richardson

As the flowers are all made sweeter
by the sunshine and the dew,
So this old world is made brighter
by the lives of folks like you. — Bonnie Parker

I never expect men to give us liberty. No, women, we are not worth it until we take it. — Voltairine De Cleyre

Well he's only 20. Without question, he's the best youngest player I've seen in my time ... If he keeps developing and matures ? goodness knows what he will become. At the moment he's a breathe of fresh air.
(on Wayne Rooney) — Alex Ferguson