Zinginger Quotes & Sayings

They say that we are better educated than our parents' generation. What they mean is that we go to school longer. It is not the same thing. — Richard Yates

I can see little consistency in a type of Christian activity which preaches the gospel on the street corners and at the ends of earth, but neglects the children of the covenant by abandoning them to a cold and unbelieving secularism. — John Gresham Machen

You are basically a flophouse and a pimp away from Pepcid rehab, you know that? I informed Nana. — Laurie Notaro

It is as commendable to think well of oneself when alone, as it is ridiculous to speak well of oneself among others. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Wars of small kingdoms and forgotten lands, what do chessmen dream of in the dark? — Keri Hulme

Each one of us, in his timidity, has a limit beyond which he is outraged. It is inevitable that he who by concentrated application has extended this limit for himself, should arouse the resentment of those who have accepted conventions which, since accepted by all, require no initiative of application. And this resentment generally takes the form of meaningless laughter or of criticism, if not persecution. — Man Ray

Belief creates conviction, conviction creates persistence, persistence creates perseverance and perseverance creates unlimited opportunities for greatness. — Jason Versey

Their errors have been weighed and found to have been dust in the balance; if their sins were as scarlet, they are now white as snow: they have been washed in the blood of the mediator and the redeemer, Time. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

the American Government is in fact enforcing a system of employment on the universities under which they are required, under pain of bankruptcy, to employ members of minority groups in spite of the fact that a better qualified member of a non-minority group is applying for the job...Quotas were considered undesirable when they were used against minority groups; they do not become desirable when they are used against majority groups. Positive discrimination, so called, is still discrimination against somebody; one man's positive discrimination is another man's negative discrimination. Furthermore, who shall define a minority?...Why are some minorities more minor than others? — Hans Jurgen Eysenck

Pretension, dear love, does not buy truth into lies, nor alter its course. — Sreesha Divakaran

One important thing to know is you're still the same person during it. I'm more eager than ever to do what I did. I want to do everything. — Kylie Minogue

Maybe I'm afraid that you should run from me." "If I should, would you let me? — Laurelin Paige

One of the great joys of mathematics is the incontrovertible feeling that you've understood something the right way, all the way down to the bottom; it's a feeling I haven't experienced in any other sphere of mental life. And when you know how to do something the right way, it's hard-for some stubborn people, impossible-to make yourself explain it the wrong way. — Jordan Ellenberg

I thought I was in a better position to get a team than anyone else in Houston. — Bob McNair

It must be admitted that there are some parts of the soul which we must entirely paralyse before we can live happily in this world. — Nicolas Chamfort