Unprotected Speech Quotes & Sayings

Never leave anything which can be traced, when you do have a choice. — John D. MacDonald

Do you realize that you have the power to design a life that's meaningful and even remarkable? You and God are in a family partnership. He has not only blessed you with mortal breath, but with a purpose-filled life. He's given you power and will to control that life. This is a gift that He will never take from you. But when you humble yourself and give your will back to him, your life will be nothing short of miraculous. — Toni Sorenson

His hypothesis goes to this - to make the common run of his readers fancy they can do all that can be done by genius, and to make the man of genius believe he can only do what is to be done by mechanical rules and systematic industry. This is not a very feasible scheme; nor is Sir Joshua sufficiently clear and explicit in his reasoning in support of it. — William Hazlitt

I love mockumentaries. When they're done right, they're really good. — Seann William Scott

Power is the recognition of necessity. — Abraham Rotstein

Ah, to be young and in love. — Anonymous

He didn't realize that simply by mingling among various lunch tables, he was befriending people in different crowds, weaving together the fringes of the cafeteria. — Alexandra Robbins

The young man who's had the Guggenheim fortune behind him all his life - he can hire all the authorities on the subject to teach him how to do a monologue, but he's never going to have the right stuff to pull it off. If he doesn't walk out onstage needing to walk out there, he doesn't have a dream of doing well. — Jerry Lewis

Do not burn yourselves out. Be as I am-a reluctant enthusiast ... a part-time crusader, a half-hearted fanatic. Save the other half of yourselves and your lives for pleasure and adventure. — Edward Abbey

I've never really addressed those rumors because I figured, 'Why defend yourself against something that is not offensive'? — Johnny Galecki

Jesus' favorite speech form, the parable, was subversive. Parables sound absolutely ordinary: casual stories about soil and seeds, meals and coins and sheep, bandits and victims, farmers and merchants. And they are wholly secular: of his forty or so parables recorded in the Gospels, only one has its setting in church, and only a couple mention the name God. As people heard Jesus tell these stories, they saw at once that they weren't about God, so there was nothing in them threatening their own sovereignty. They relaxed their defenses. They walked away perplexed, wondering what they meant, the stories lodged in their imagination. And then, like a time bomb, they would explode in their unprotected hearts. An abyss opened up at their very feet. He was talking about God; they had been invaded! — Eugene H. Peterson

Vendetta is the word, except it isn't strong enough. — Sister Souljah

I just feel like the days of a handful of executives making the decisions for the entirety of the human public have gone on long enough. — Natalie Zea

Since I know how crazy this business is, I do the opposite of what I see other people doing. — Emmanuel Lewis

You have to lead, in the case of a game show, a contestant through the architecture of the show. So there's a lot of rules there, literal and implied, that you have to navigate. — Michael Ian Black

Mark Zuckerberg did his own software for Facebook, and Larry Page and Sergey Brin made their own for Google. — Xavier Niel