True North Alignment Quotes & Sayings

"We thought that, perhaps," said I, hesitating, "it is right to begin with the obligations of home, sir; and that, perhaps, while those are overlooked and neglected, no other duties can possibly be substituted for them." — Charles Dickens

The most powerful entities on earth are not governments but the multi-national corporations that see women as their territory, indoctrinating them with their versions of beauty, health and hygiene, medicating them and cultivating their dependency in order to medicate them some more. — Germaine Greer

Eating is one of the great beauties in life. One of my favorite recreations ... eating with friends, the service, the ambience. — LeRoy Neiman

Why? Because I refuse to erase a man's lifetime? I tell you Brady had the same right as Cates: the right to be wrong! — Jerome Lawrence

In homes where high ideals and gospel values are maintained, it is parents, not teachers, who lay the foundation of character and faith in the hearts of their children. — Rex D. Pinegar

You are a fucking hoot, Fred. I'm officially making you my new best friend. It's quite an honoured and sought after position, I'll have you know. So far I have a grand total of four friends in Dublin. You've currently just snagged yourself the top spot."
"Oh stop, Viv, I'm welling up, here," I reply drily. — L. H. Cosway

Life in a box is better than no life at all, I expect. You'd have a chance at least. You could lie there thinking: Well, at least I'm not dead. — Tom Stoppard

These wars appear also to have given its death blow to colonialism and to imperialism in its colonial form, under which weaker peoples were treated as possessions to be economically exploited. At least we hope that such colonialism is on the way out. — Emily Greene Balch

He was something in between. Steadfast in pursuit but adaptable. Charming yet respectful. In other words, complex. — Priscilla West

There's much that goes to the makin' of a man or woman into somethin' better than a brute beast, but there's three things in chief, an' they're the places where life sets us down, an' the folks life knocks us up against, an'
not the things ye get, but the things ye don't get. — Elizabeth Goudge

In the grave I can tell you the truth. I am your own Dunia, but I am also a princess of the jinnias or jiniri. The slits in the world are reopening, so I can come back to see you — Salman Rushdie

A trial is not a search for truth. It is a contest and, often, one that produces no winners. — Andrew Vachss

The opposite of faith is not doubt, it's certainty. — Anne Lamott

I don't think I need to be an apologist for working hard and being a very large taxpayer. — Anthony Scaramucci

Mug shot extortion sites turn this sort of thing into a business. Mug shots are public record, but they're not readily available. Owners of mug shot sites acquire the photos in bulk and publish them online, where everybody can find them, then charge individuals to remove their photos from the sites. — Bruce Schneier