Sin quotes

Sin

When your team is winning, be ready to be tough, because winning can make you soft. On the other hand, when your team is losing, stick by them. Keep believing.

- Schembechler, Bo

The sky is the part of creation in which nature has done for the sake of pleasing man.

- Ruskin, John

I have just received the following wire from my generous Daddy. It says, Dear Jack: Don't buy a single vote more than is necessary. I'll be damned if I am going to pay for a landslide.

- Kennedy, John F.

Basically my wife was immature. I'd be at home in the bath and she would come in and sink my boats.

- Allen, Woody

Five to six million strong, Muslims in America already outnumber Presbyterians, Episcopalians, and Mormons, and they are more numerous than Quakers, Unitarians, Seventh-day Adventists, Mennonites, Jehovah's Witnesses, and Christian Scientists, combined. Many demographers say Islam has overtaken Judaism as the country's second-most commonly practiced religion; others say it is in the passing lane.

- Johan Blank

Quotations (such as have point and lack triteness) from the great old authors are an act of reverence on the part of the quoter, and a blessing to a public grown superficial and external.

- Louise Guiney

Our roots are in the dark; the earth is our country. Why did we look up for blessing -- instead of around, and down? What hope we have lies there. Not in the sky full of orbiting spy-eyes and weaponry, but in the earth we have looked down upon. Not from above, but from below. Not in the light that blinds, but in the dark that nourishes, where human beings grow human souls.

- Guin, Ursula K. Le

A single idea -- the sudden flash of a thought -- may be worth a million dollars.

- Collier, Robert

We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that's the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate as personalities are the ones who lose that thread.

- Auster, Paul

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You canÆt love a crowd the same way you can love a person. And a crowd canÆt love you the way a single person can love you. Intimacy doesnÆt scale. Not really. Intimacy is a one-on-one phenomenon.

- Hugh Macleod

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The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party when the masks are dropped.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

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Women know the way to rear up children (to be just). They know a simple, merry, tender knack of tying sashes, fitting baby-shoes, and stringing pretty words that make no sense. And kissing full sense into empty words.

- Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich by promising to protect each from the other.

- Ameringer, Oscar

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It may be possible to do without dancing entirely. Instances have been known of young people passing many, many months successively without being at any ball of any description, and no material injury accrue either to body or mind; but when a beginning is made -- when the felicities of rapid motion have once been, though slightly, felt -- it must be a very heavy set that does not ask for more.

- Austen, Jane

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For they are yet ear-kissing arguments.

- William Shakespeare

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Show me the business man or institution not guided by sentiment and service; by the idea that he profits most who serves best and I will show you a man or an outfit that is dead or dying.

- Harris, B. F.

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Now the sirens have a still more fatal weapon than their song, namely their silence... someone might have escaped from their singing; but from their silence, certainly never.

- Franz Kafka

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I was the first f****** hippy to enter this business, you know... I was one of the first girls to say I don't give a f*** about this whole supermodel thing.

- Christensen, Helena

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What most people need to learn in life is how to love people and use things instead of using people and loving things.

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APOTHECARY, n. The physician's accomplice, undertaker's benefactor and grave worm's provider. When Jove sent blessings to all men that are, And Mercury conveyed them in a jar, That friend of tricksters introduced by stealth Disease for the apothecary's health, Whose gratitude impelled him to proclaim: "My deadliest drug shall bear my patron's name!" G.J.

- Ambrose Bierce