Uncultivated Country Quotes & Sayings

I understand all too well that you can make legislation but you can't legislate how people feel toward one another. — Jerry West

Whenever there is in any country, uncultivated lands and unemployed poor, it is clear that the laws of property have been so far extended as to violate natural right. The earth is given as a common stock for man to labour and live on. If, for the encouragement of industry we allow it to be appropriated, we must take care that other employment be furnished to those excluded from the appropriation. If we do not the fundamental right to labour the earth returns to the unemployed. — Thomas Jefferson

If one's honest about it, spending time in a car with children is pretty ghastly. — Arabella Weir

You tell them that you're doing this not because you want to save money on office space but because this is how their generation likes to work. — Dan Lyons

a management practice is a good practice when: It engages people and their interactions; It enables them to improve the system; It helps to delight all clients. — Jurgen Appelo

One makes one's own luck, but you have to give the universe the opportunity to help you. — Amish Tripathi

I came into this world the way every person on the planet does - with clenched fists. — Ann Voskamp

People take conventional ways that other people have always decorated their cars, and use them as ways of giving other people permission to approach them. — Chuck Palahniuk

Legislators cannot invent too many devices for subdividing property ... Another means of silently lessening the inequality of property is to exempt all from taxation below a certain point, and to tax the higher portions or property in geometrical progression as they rise. Whenever there are in any country uncultivated lands and unemployed poor, it is clear that the laws of property have been so far extended as to violate natural right. — Thomas Jefferson

If you read a label and just look up the ingredients, you'll be able to figure out really easily what's good for you and what's bad. — Blake Griffin

You may be guided by the unending effort of poets and artists, biologists and psychiatrists to describe that irreplaceable and still mysterious emotion so essential to the human condition, but all the search engines in the universe cannot compete with the first kiss. — Tom Brokaw

There are some women who are flirts upon principle; they consider it their duty to make themselves as pleasing as possible to every one. — Antoine Rivarol

I was vulnerable every day. Every night that I stepped on stage I was laying myself open. — Michael Stipe

Here's what I believe. Shit fucking happens. That's rule one. Everybody walking the planet knows that. Rule two: things rarely turn out the way you planned. Three: everybody gets knocked down. Four, and most important of all: after you take those shots, it's time to stand up and walk on - to continue to live. — Duff McKagan

Ah, God! what trances of torments does that man endure who is consumed with one unachieved revengeful desire. He sleeps with clenched hands; and wakes with his own bloody nails in his palms. — Herman Melville

Another means of silently lessening the inequality of property is to exempt all from taxation below a certain point, and to tax the higher portions or property in geometrical progression as they rise. Whenever there are in any country uncultivated lands and unemployed poor, it is clear that the laws of property have been so far extended as to violate natural right. The earth is given as a common stock for man to labor and live on.
Letter to James Madison, October 28, 1785 — Thomas Jefferson

Every human cell, with its thousands of protein chains, is more complex than a 747 or the largest cruise ship, in fact more complex than the two combined. All life on Earth, in its extravagant variety, offers itself for study, but though we probe to ever deeper layers of its structure, the meaning eludes us. — Dean Koontz

Surround yourself with reminders of what you are doing, such as objects or photographs of places or persons that symbolize your desired change. — Phillip Moffitt