Wintery Wednesday Quotes & Sayings

You carry about in your own selfish world completely oblivious to the things that really upset me and then wonder what it is you've done wrong. — Mike Gayle

Your palms break sweat and you sit there, needy, while your work ethic and character are available for comment from strangers you wouldn't share a joint with at a blues festival. — Daniel Woodrell

He is dead now, but he meant well. — George Carlin

Under these circumstances, if they meet with no one who understands the matter, these persons fall away, and abandon the right road; or become weak, or at least put hindrances in the way of their further advancement, because of the great efforts they make to proceed in their former way of meditation, fatiguing their natural powers beyond measure. They think that their state is the result of negligence or of sin. All their own efforts are now in vain, because God is leading them by another and a very different road, that of contemplation. Their first road was that of discursive reflection, but the second knows no imagination or reasoning. 4. It behooves those — San Juan De La Cruz

I shall not rest until Leeds United are kicked out of the football league. Their fans are the scum of the earth, absolute animals and a disgrace. I will do everything in my power to make sure this happens. — Ken Bates

The law is the survival of the fittest ... The law is not the survival of the 'better' or the 'stronger,' if we give to those words any thing like their ordinary meanings. It is the survival of those which are constitutionally fittest to thrive under the conditions in which they are placed; and very often that which, humanly speaking, is inferiority, causes the survival. — Herbert Spencer

I'd been trained as a classical musician, but also as a pop musician. My teacher made sure that everything was available. — Jeanine Tesori

One's own history can be the greatest educator — Deborah L. Parker

Others called her "Truth," since it is said that "the truth is naked." But Miss Pao wasn't exactly without a stitch on, so they revised her name to "Partial Truth. — Qian Zhongshu

When a system of oppression has become institutionalized it is unnecessary for individuals to be oppressive. — Florynce Kennedy

He was one of those men, and they are not the commonest, of whom we can know the best only by following them away from the marketplace, the platform, and the pulpit, entering with them into their own homes, hearing the voice with which they speak to the young and aged about their own hearthstone, and witnessing their thoughtful care for the everyday wants of everyday companions, who take all their kindness as a matter of course, and not as a subject for panegyric. — George Eliot

We shouldn't be fearful of freedom, we shouldn't be fearful of individual liberty. — Rand Paul

I have had some bad shooting games but that doesn't stop me from getting the ball to my teammates — Jason Kidd

We denote this primary wisdom as Intuition, whilst all later teachings are tuitions. — Ralph Waldo Emerson