Timmy's Dad Quotes & Sayings

I feel like women, especially in music, aren't really given as much respect as men. Sexism really exists. — Kate Nash

I do think that humanitarians and journalists alike have focused on all the things that go wrong, and that they sometimes leave the perception in the public that the war on poverty has been lost. That Africa is just a bottomless pit of despair. When, in fact, really the opposite is true on both fronts. — Nicholas Kristof

We live half our waking lives and all of our sleeping lives in some private, useless, and insensible waters we never mention or recall. — Annie Dillard

The slaves were simply turned loose without any property. They were easily recognizable. They were black. They were suddenly free to go exploring. — Kurt Vonnegut

One-half of life is luck; the other half is discipline - and that's the important half, for without discipline you wouldn't know what to do with luck. — Carl Zuckmayer

We're constantly told that all cultures are equal, and that every belief system is as good as the next. And it led to a kind of - and generally, that America was to be known for its flaws rather than its virtues. — Frank Miller

Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more. — William Cowper

The unwillingness to try is worse than any failure. — Nikki Giovanni

Many Christians say that they get their morality from the Bible, but this cannot be true because as holy books go the Bible is possibly the most unhelpful guide ever written for determining right from wrong. It's chock-full of bizarre stories about dysfunctional families, advice about how to beat your slaves, how to kill your headstrong kids, how to sell your virgin daughters, and other clearly outdated practices that most cultures gave up centuries ago. — Michael Shermer

Success is the most convincing talker in the world. — Napoleon Bonaparte

democracy that cannot control its own population may be worse for human rights than a dictatorship that can. — Robert D. Kaplan

Some wishes crossed my mind and dimly cheered it, And one or two poor melancholy pleasures, Each in the pale unwarming light of hope, Silvering its flimsy wing, flew silent by - Moths in the moonbeam!' COLERIDGE. — Elizabeth Gaskell

Her soul is clear of any red seals, but that won't last long, ' cause Papa's come to play. — Victoria Scott

Just now, high above the chaos of Sarantium, it seemed as if there were so many things he wanted to honour or exalt- or take to task, if it came to that, for there was no need for, no justice in, children dying of plague, or young girls being cut into pieces in the forest, or sold in grief for winter grain.
If this was the world as the god- or gods- had made it, then mortal man, this mortal man, could acknowledge that and honour the power and infinite majesty that lay within it, but he would not say that it was right, or bow down as if he were only dust or a brittle leaf blown from an autumn tree, helpless in the wind.
He might be, all men and women might be as helpless as that leaf, but he would not admit it, and he would do something here on the dome that said- or aspired to say- these things, and more. — Guy Gavriel Kay