Noninitiatory Quotes

#1. [Mead described the Arapesh as a culture in which both sexes were] placid and contented, unaggressive and noninitiatory, noncompetitive and responsive, warm, docile, and trusting.

Margaret Mead

#2. America wins when we trade and export and import.

Mike Pence

#3. Almost everything that men have said best has been said in Greek.

Rabih Alameddine

#4. When I was a kid, everybody loved Hulk Hogan, right? 'Eat your vitamins. Eat your vegetables.' Everybody over 25 hated him because he was corny, right?

Freddie Prinze Jr.

#5. True religion is not a meditation on death, but a meditation on life.

Gaetan Soucy

#6. Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#7. If there is one thing educators can agree on, it's this: children do better in school when their parents get involved in their learning.

William Bennett

#8. Who can find a virtuous and capable wife? She is worth more than precious rubies. She will not hinder him but help him all her life. PROVERBS 31:10, 12

Francine Rivers

#9. We're the ones causing global warming. In fact, what we ought to be saying is population growth is a major cause of it, so I hope to have a T-shirt out very, very soon: Stop global warming, use condoms.

Mechai Viravaidya

#10. If the great Phil Ochs were to rise from the dead today, he would probably be hailed as the new David Rovics.

Andy Kershaw

#11. Helena, my love," she heard a deep voice whisper from behind. Helena gasped and held on tight to that breath. Jeans clutched to her chest, she turned slowly toward the voice. There was no one there. "It's official. I'm obsessed.

Mimi Jean Pamfiloff

#12. Blood alone literally moves the wheels of history.

Benito Mussolini

#13. He felt as if he were trying to move a glacier with a frozen chicken.

Mur Lafferty

#14. The wandering elephants, giraffes and buffalos of Tsavo will be kept at bay by a 1.8-meter reinforced concrete and metal mesh fence.

Gavin Serkin

#15. People say I'm henpecked. Well, let them say it.

Gordie Howe