Funny Stingy Sayings

#1. We all want to get along well with other people, and one way to do this is to help people feel good about themselves. If you make a person feel smart and insightful, that person will enjoy your company.

Gretchen Rubin

#2. The first ten, twelve or fifteen years of life are excavated of inherent moral worth in order to accommodate a regimen of basic training for the adult years that many of the poorest children may not even live to know.

Jonathan Kozol

#3. If you are loved less, he is the Great Provider. If you are loved more but are still hungry, he is the only One who can suffice.

Kelly Minter

#4. I can definitely tell when mum has got money because then she likes to go shopping to spend it, whereas dad is steadier and avoids splurges. I like to think I've inherited both sides.

Sophie Ellis-Bextor

#5. He's sitting casually at my kitchen table peeling the skin off an apple
with a pocket knife, a red apple that he has quite obviously appropriated from my fruit bowl, might I add.

L. H. Cosway

#6. I still have a righteous indignation at injustice, no matter what form it takes. It could be homophobia, it could be white supremacy, male supremacy, imperial arrogance, class subordination or whatever.

Cornel West

#7. A time of uncertainty, of not knowing exactly where we're headed, or what kind of choice to make is a Zen moment.

Brenda Shoshanna

#8. I was reared on folk music.

Rufus Wainwright

#9. They have a crystalline sense of right and wrong; it disappears when they walk out the door with their M.B.A.

Carl Hiaasen

#10. Miracles cannot be explained, that is their miraculous nature.

May Sarton

#11. Make use of the opportunity to have a bath yourself. I can not only guess the age and breed of your horse, but also its color, by the smell.

Andrzej Sapkowski

#12. Darwin and his successors taught us how our biosphere evolved, and thereby transformed our conception of humanity's place in nature. In the twenty-first century, space scientists are setting Darwin in a grander cosmic context - probing the origins of Earth, stars, atoms and the universe itself.

Martin Rees