Quotes of Sort - somelinesforyou

“ There are two types of people who will tell you that you cannot make a difference in this world: Those who are afraid to try themselves, and those who are afraid that you will succeed. ”

- Ray Goforth

“ "Hope" is the thing with feathers — That perches in the soul — And sings the tune without the words — And never stops — at all — . ”

- Emily Dickinson

“ A willing heart adds feather to the heel. ”

- Joanna Baillie

“ Variety's the very spice of life, that gives it all its flavor. ”

- William Cowper

“ It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent; it is the one that is most adaptable to change. ”

- Charles Darwin

“ While there is a lower class, I am in it; while there is a criminal element, I am of it; and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free. ”

- Eugene V. Debs

“ Winter is nature's way of saying, "Up yours.". ”

- Robert Byrne

“ Art is the objectification of feeling, and the subjectification of nature. ”

- Susanne K. Langer

“ Slums may well be breeding-grounds of crime, but middle-class suburbs are incubators of apathy and delirium. ”

- Cyril Connolly

“ The cow is of the bovine ilk: One end is moo, the other, milk. ”

- Ogden Nash

“ The SPR is, by design, to be used for severe disruptions of the market. That is a type that has not occurred. ”

- Ari Fleischer

“ There's a lot of variety out there. ”

- David Peterson

“ Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind. ”

- Eric Hoffer

“ Spring is nature's way of saying, "Let's party!". ”

- Robin Williams

“ There are two kinds of liberalism. A liberalism which is always, subterraneously authoritative and paternalistic, on the side of one's good conscience. And then there is a liberalism which is more ethical than political; one would have to find another name for this… ”

- Roland Barthes

“ There are two kinds of success, or rather two kinds of ability displayed in the achievement of success. There is, first, the success either in big things or small things which comes to the man who has in him the natural power to do what no one else can do, and what no amount of training, no perseverance or will power, will enable any ordinary man to do… ”

- Theodore Roosevelt

“ Dressing up is inevitably a substitute for good ideas. It is no coincidence that technically inept business types are known as "suits.". ”

- Paul Graham

“ Upper classes are a nation's past; the middle class is its future. ”

- Ayn Rand

“ I'm rather bored by the subject-meaning me. It's a sort of a yoke, but at times you know, a yoke is a kind of comfort. And it's always there. ”

- Laurence Olivier

“ Work is the curse of the drinking classes. ”

- Oscar Wilde

“ A committee is a group of people who individually can do nothing, but who, as a group, can meet and decide that nothing can be done. ”

- Fred A. Allen

“ The more violent the body contact of the sports you watch, the lower your class. ”

- Paul Fussell

“ She used to be a schoolteacher but she has no class now. ”

- Fred Allen

“ The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest possible amount of feathers with the smallest amount of hissing. ”

- Jean Baptiste Colbert

“ All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God. ”

- Sir Thomas Browne

“ Nature goes her own way and all that to us seems an exception is really according to order. ”

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“ The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races, the men who borrow, and the men who lend. ”

- Charles Lamb

“ News is that which comes from the North, East, West and South, and if it comes from only one point on the compass, then it is a class ; publication and not news. ”

- Benjamin Disraeli

“ The Republican form of government is the highest form of government; but because of this it requires the highest type of human nature — a type nowhere at present existing. ”

- Herbert Spencer

“ When our old Pleasures die,Some new One still is nigh;Oh! fair Variety! ”

- Nicholas Rowe
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