Explications Quotes

#1. Discourses were chiefly either polemic arguments or explications of the peculiar doctrines of our sect, and were all to me very dry, uninteresting, and unedifying, since not a single moral principle was inculcated or enforced, their aim seeming to be rather to make us Presbyterians than good

Benjamin Franklin

#2. Bidding for the first torment starts at fifty thousand dollars with increments of five thousand. Gentlemen, what is your pleasure?

Gustavo Florentin

#3. I'm not very good at resting on my laurels. I am a bit of a workaholic, and I like to keep busy and active, so I think that's what drives me.

Tricia Helfer

#4. I should have died. Not her. Nicole stiffened against him. There it was again, that woeful statement belittling his value, his worth.

Karen Witemeyer

#5. Of course his dust would be absorbed in other living things and to that degree at least he would exist again, though it was plain enough that the specific combination which was he would never exist again.

Gore Vidal

#6. Sometimes it's right to do the wrong thing.

Finian Whish

#7. A man with nothing to lend should refrain from borrowing.

Michel De Montaigne

#8. Every bad joke, every endorsement deal, all of the things that a typical host would normally get creamed for, people don't mind, because they know I don't cheat when it comes to the work I actually try. I'm a lab rat. I'm a perpetual apprentice. The joke is on me if there is one.

Mike Rowe

#9. Pretty Woman was the easiest job I've ever done. I just wore the right toupee.

Hector Elizondo

#10. A Christian is a perfectly free lord of all, subject to none. A Christian is a perfectly dutiful servant of all, subject of all, subject to all.

Martin Luther