emma stone quotes

We need a type of patriotism that recognizes the virtues of those who are opposed to us..... The old "manifest destiny" idea ought to be modified so that each nation has the manifest destiny to do the best it can - and that without cant, without the assumption of self-righteousness and with a desire to learn to the uttermost from other nations. ~Francis John McConnell



If you want to ruin the truth, stretch it. ~Author Unknown



The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet. ~Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield



Every government is a parliament of whores. The trouble is, in a democracy, the whores are us. ~P.J. O'Rourke



No man is a good doctor who has never been sick himself. ~Chinese Proverb



A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself. ~Josh Billings



Mirrors should think longer before they reflect. ~Jean Cocteau



How lucky we are that we can reach our genitals instead of that spot on our back that itches. ~Flash Rosenberg



I thought growing up was something that happened automatically as you got older. But it turns out it's something you have to choose to do. ~From the television show Scrubs



A golf course outside a big town serves an excellent purpose in that it segregates, as though a concentration camp, all the idle and idiot well-to-do. ~Osbert Sitwell



The secret to mountain biking is pretty simple. The slower you go the more likely it is you'll crash. ~Julie Furtado



Nature decrees that we do not exceed the speed of light. All other impossibilities are optional. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



Old Time, that greatest and longest established spinner of all!.... his factory is a secret place, his work is noiseless, and his hands are mutes. ~Charles Dickens



Mountain pose teaches us, literally, how to stand on our own two feet.... teaching us to root ourselves into the earth.... Our bodies become a connection between heaven and earth. ~Carol Krucoff



To decide is to walk facing forward with nary a crick in your neck from looking back at the crossroads. ~Betsy Canas Garmon



Scrapbooking fills my days - not to mention my living room, bedroom and closets! ~Author Unknown



When at night you cannot sleep, talk to the Shepherd and stop counting sheep. ~Author Unknown



Man is a blind, witless, low brow, anthropocentric clod who inflicts lesions upon the earth. ~Ian McHarg



Let no one think that real gardening is a bucolic and meditative occupation. It is an insatiable passion, like everything else to which a man gives his heart. ~Karel Capek, The Gardener's Year, translated by M. and R. Weatherall, 1931



Promises make debt, and debt makes promises. ~Dutch Proverb