Vicos Quotes & Sayings

Charity is detrimental unless it helps the recipient become independent of it. — David Thorne

Here's the thing: If you're so far left you actually believe that somebody owes you a job, citizenship and a heart transplant, you're mentally ill. If you're so far right that you actually believe that somebody who doesn't have a job and is not a citizen deserves to have their heart cut out and sold on eBay, and you get to keep 80 percent of the profit - you're mentally ill. — Christopher Titus

Mister hit Josephine with the palm of his hand across her left cheek and it was then she knew she would run. — Tara Conklin

So you think the best way to prepare kids for the real world is to bus them to a government institution where they're forced to spend all day isolated with children of their own age and adults who are paid to be with them, placed in classes that are too big to allow more than a few minutes of personal interaction with the teacher-then spend probably an hour or more everyday waiting in lunch lines, car lines, bathroom lines, recess lines, classroom lines, and are forced to progress at the speed of the slowest child in class? — Steven James

I got a little house in East L.A. and did the gardening. I was doing some acting here and there, doing my own thing ... getting back to reality. — Adam Ant

Reciting from rote seems a terrible way to honor the gods and a precise killing of the power of the words. — Thomm Quackenbush

If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example. — George Bernard Shaw

A jurisdiction thus vague and arbitrary was exposed to the most dangerous abuse: the substance, as well as the form, of justice were often sacrificed to the prejudices of virtue, the bias of laudable affection, and the grosser seductions of interest or resentment. — Edward Gibbon

Because IQ tests favor memory skills and logic, overlooking artistic creativity, insight, resiliency, emotional reserves, sensory gifts, and life experience, they can't really predict success, let alone satisfaction. — Diane Ackerman

I've never had friends, and I don't like to be around big groups of people. — Taylor Momsen

One does not bargain over inches of evil. — Ayn Rand

The thing that is most important is to feel like you're at the front of the line, to be prime or primer. I definitely never wanted to say that in the films, but that's where it comes from. — Shane Carruth

You only come when you're working on a case?" "Something like that," I said. "You would prefer I came more often?" He looked at me from over his non-steaming cup of coffee. "Yes," he said simply, and I found his answer oddly touching. "So am I to assume you are working on a case now?" "You — J.R. Rain

I fly myself everywhere. I like all kinds of flying, including practical flying for search and rescue. And I also like to fly into the backcountry, usually the Frank Church Wilderness in Idaho. I go with a group of friends, and we set up camp for about five days and explore little dirt strips and canyons. — Harrison Ford

God's Word will never fall into disrepair. But here's what happens when we don't travel on it: We fall into disrepair! — David Jeremiah