Rib Cracking Quotes

#1. By seeing the way a joke worked in the horseplay of a printing shop two centuries ago, we may be able to recapture that missing element - laughter, sheer laughter, the thigh-slapping, rib-cracking Rabelaisian kind, rather than the Voltairian smirk with which we are familiar.

Robert Darnton

#2. In actuality Boaz respected and recognized Ruth's character first. As a result he held her in high regard. You can instantly catch a man's attention, but if you don't have his respect you won't get the relationship you deserve.

Stephan Labossiere

#3. getting angry or giving in when a woman tests you results in automatic failure.

Bruce Bryans

#4. The toughest habits to break are the ones we take with us from childhood.

Charles F. Glassman

#5. Even if I never registered my YouTube channel with the intention of being a role model, if I am that for somebody, I can't help it. So I need to be conscious of it and realize that influence can be used for good or bad, and just try to do my best.

Tyler Oakley

#6. I like thought which preserves a whiff of flesh and blood, and I prefer a thousand times an idea rising from sexual tension or nervous depression to empty abstraction.

Emil Cioran

#7. An ability to believe in things that weren't true was a powerful tool.

Stephen Baxter

#8. For some years I have spent my time on exactly these questions - both in thinking about ways to prevent war, and in thinking about how to fight, survive, and terminate a war, should it occur.

Herman Kahn

#9. Freedom of inquiry, freedom of discussion, and freedom of teaching - without these a university cannot exist.

Robert M. Hutchins