Unidentified Slope Quotes & Sayings

In a sane, civil, intelligent and moral society, you don't blame poor people for being poor. — Andrew Young

I think tobacco and alcohol warnings are too general. They should be more to the point: 'People who smoke will eventually cough up small pieces of lung.' ... And 'Warning!! Alcohol will turn you into the same jerk your father was.' — George Carlin

If you want to help people, if you care, go to the cities. The city is where the pain is the greatest - and the cities are a hell of a lot of fun if you like art, movies and plays. — Frederick Lenz

I am deeply aware of the dimension of luck. It's so important to be prepared to receive it, but it is a major factor. There's no question. — J. Carter Brown

Fear is going to be a player in your life, but you get to decide how much! — Jim Carrey

And it was understood that Scottish Borderers did not take kindly to outside Wardens. The oustanding example was the unfortunate Frenchman, Anthony Darcy, the Sieur de la Bastie, who in 1516 was ill-advised enough to accept the Wardenry of all the Scottish Marches, with particular responsibility in the east. This was Hume country, and they regarded Darcy with "horrid resentment". He seems to have been a brave, honest and conscientious Warden, which no doubt rendered him all the more odious. The outcome was that the Humes finally caught up with him near Duns, cut off his head, and took it home in triumph, tied by its long locks to a saddle-bow. — George MacDonald Fraser

If we use the past only to creature heroes for present purposes, we will never understand the richness of human thought or the plurality of ways of knowing. — Stephen Jay Gould

She'd given it two good years. The problem was, Don had only given it one. — Cindy Gerard

Those who are ready for the transformation can do it anywhere and those who are not ready cannot do it wherever they are. — Anonymous

To have a happy family...is to enjoy an earlier heaven. — Og Mandino

To forgive is not to forget. The merit lies in loving in spite of the vivid knowledge that one that must be loved is not a friend. There is not merit in loving an enemy when you forget him for a friend. — Mahatma Gandhi

The surrender of oneself to a stronger power, the unification of one's own movements with the movements of the whole is what makes dance religious and lets it become a service of God. — Gerard Van Der Leeuw