Unaffecting Quotes & Sayings

Religion is not God himself or herself. It is a system of teaching about God, an explanation of God's way to human minds. But God doesn't need explanations to exist. — Ilchi Lee

I just want to give you this one piece of advice: if you're standing and you could be sitting, sit. If you're sitting and you could be lying down, lie down. — Helena Bonham Carter

I have a Bachelor in medicine, a Bachelor in surgery, and I am a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons. — Hasnat Khan

I never understood men. You boys long for freedom and then spend the rest of your lives looking for someone to take care of you and give you the things you didn't want in the first place. I hope to never have a son. I would have to hit him over the head, and beg the good Lord to take him back and insert a brain. — Amy Lignor

All of my career has been an attempt to educate myself and get paid for it. — Edward Rutherfurd

I love tube socks! — Miley Cyrus

Always when I see a man fond of praise I always think it is because he is an affectionate man craving for affection — Jack Butler Yeats

There are people who think that everything one does with a serious face is sensible. — Georg C. Lichtenberg

(This is how the iron law of bureaucracy installs itself at the heart of an institution. Most of the activities of any bureaucracy are devoted not to the organization's ostensible goals, but to ensuring that the organization survives: because if they aren't, the bureaucracy has a life expectancy measured in days before some idiot decision maker decides that if it's no use to them they can make political hay by destroying it. It's no consolation that some time later someone will realize that an organization was needed to carry out the original organization's task, so a replacement is created: you still lost your job and the task went undone. The only sure way forward is to build an agency that looks to its own survival before it looks to its mission statement. Just another example of evolution in action.) — Charles Stross

Therefore all just persons are satisfied with their own praise. They refuse to explain themselves, and are content that new actions should do them that office. They believe that we communicate without speech, and above speech, and that no right action of ours is quite unaffecting to our friends, at whatever distance; for the influence of action is not to be measured by miles. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The bigger question to ask about 300 is why, for a supposedly rousing tale of heroism, it's so curiously unaffecting. — Stephanie Zacharek

Being a white boxer is like being a republican. No matter how hard you work, you'll always lose because of the Mexicans. — Daniel Tosh

I love the old stuff that's why I included it. I did see them play a lot as they supported the Banshees all the time. And I was a friend of the Banshees so I used to get there early to see the Ants and while the Banshees were on I used to like to go in their dressing room and steal their booze! — Marco Pirroni