Ubiquitious Quotes & Sayings

How majestic is naturalness. I have never met a man whom I really considered a great man who was not always natural and simple. Affectation is inevitably the mark of one not sure of himself. — Charles G. Dawes

I prefer to have a great time and to keep my wits about me. — Richard Branson

Europe is in an economic crisis. Germany is the wealthiest country in Europe and it benefits the most from Europe. However, the German public doesn't want to pay for what they see as Greek indolence and corruption. — George Friedman

When I'm about Rick James, it's all about get out there and kill 'em. — Rick James

Parents are by no means exempt from the intoxication of dominion. — Samuel Johnson

But we are in any case mistaken if we think of our picture of the world as a passive record. The picture is made by, it is made of, our activity, all the way from the logic of the brain to the use of the plow and the wheel. — Jacob Bronowski

You can't grow and learn if your focus is on finding someone else to blame instead of looking at your own shortcomings. — John C. Maxwell

Watching a baby being born is a little like watching a wet St. Bernard coming in through the cat door. — Jeff Foxworthy

To be white, or straight, or male, or middle class is to be simultaneously ubiquitious and invisible. You're everywhere you look, you're the standard against which everyone else is measured. You're like water, like air. People will tell you they went to see a "woman doctor" or they will say they went to see "the doctor." People will tell you they have a "gay colleague" or they'll tell you about a colleague. A white person will be happy to tell you about a "Black friend," but when that same person simply mentions a "friend," everyone will assume the person is white. Any college course that doesn't have the word "woman" or "gay" or "minority" in its title is a course about men, heterosexuals, and white people. But we call those courses "literature," "history" or "political science."
This invisibility is political. — Michael S. Kimmel

I felt like we would have definitely won an NBA championship if everyone was healthy. — Kyrie Irving

I'm a Southerner, born and bred, but that doesn't mean I approve of all that goes on here, and there are a lot of other white people who feel the same. — Mildred D. Taylor

It's easier to get philosophers to agree than clocks. — Seneca.

I'm scared," she said. "These days I feel like a snail without a shell." "I'm scared too," I said. "I feel like a frog without any webs." She looked up and smiled. Wordlessly we walked over to a shaded part of the building and held each other and kissed, a shell-less snail and a webless frog. — Haruki Murakami