Vdlaj Quotes & Sayings

A philosopher being asked what was the first thing necessary to win the love of a woman, answered, Opportunity! — Thomas Moore

Hearing may make shorter intuitive leaps than sight, but it too is subject to illusions. The most pleasant of these are 'mondegreens,' named by the author Sylvia Wright from her youthful mishearing of the Scottish ballad that actually says, 'They hae slain the Earl o' Moray / and they layd him on the green'--not, alas, 'the Lady Mondegreen.' Children, with their relaxed expectations for logic, are a rich source of these (pledging allegiance to 'one Asian in the vestibule, with little tea and just rice for all'), but everyone has the talent to infer the ridiculous from the inaudible--and, what's more, to believe in it. Here, at least, we do behave like computers, in that our voice-recognition software has little regard for probability but boldly assumes we live in a world of surrealist poets. We are certain that Mick Jagger will never leave our pizza burning and that the Shadow knows what evil lurks in the hot cement. — Michael Kaplan

You're neither right nor wrong because other people agree with you. You're right because your facts are right and your reasoning is right - that's the only thing that makes you right. And if your facts and reasoning are right, you don't have to worry about anybody else. — Warren Buffett

Fail Fast, Fail Forward, Fail Fruitfully — Martha Johnson

I'm tired of people taking off their clothes. — Whitney Houston

There's a difference between a mystery and a question. Questions demand answers, but a mystery demands something more valuable-explanation. — Robert Cialdini

I feel as though I've proved myself these last five years that I can be one of the top players in the league. — Kevin Durant

I'm not a misogynist. I'm a misanthrope. I hate everyone equally. — David Sedaris

Pride goeth before destruction," he quoted, "and a haughty spirit before a fall. — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

My greatest affliction ... is perhaps the major theme of my writings, the affliction of loneliness that follows me like a shadow, a very ponderous shadow too heavy to drag after me all of my days and nights. — Tennessee Williams

The human race is always trying this dodge of making everything entirely easy; but the difficulty which it shifts off one thing it shifts to another. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

We're all tourists, sort of. Life is tourism, sort of. As far as I'm concerned, the dinosaurs still hold the lease on this godforsaken rock. — Chuck Klosterman

Survival of the world depends on our sharing what we have, and working together. If we don't the whole world will die. First the planet, and next the people. — Frank Fools Crow

And so you prefer her faults to other people's perfections? — Anne Bronte