Rustically Refined Quotes

#1. Myth: Feeding the banking sector gobs of welfare cash will bring about a recovery. Fact: Our leaders are only dedicated to preserving power

Ziad K. Abdelnour

#2. I want to, like, drink wine and talk about the Middle East or whatever the fuck we're gonna want to do when we're old.

John Green

#3. Drunkenness, the ruin of reason, the destruction of strength, premature old age, momentary death.

Saint Basil

#4. But his doom 54: Reserv'd him to more wrath; for now the thought 55: Both of lost happiness and lasting pain 56: Torments him; round he throws his baleful eyes 57: That witness'd huge affliction and dismay 58: Mixt with obdurate pride and stedfast hate:

John Milton

#5. Yeah, but some things you can't control, no matter how hard you try.

Gayle Forman

#6. Everything that happens to you is self-created.

Deepak Chopra

#7. Jay Abraham's client sent him $50,000 a month for a long time for writing one headline. That's what people who understand communication can do.

Eben Pagan

#8. When I was about six or seven, I did this character reenactment performance where I read a monologue from 'Peter Pan.' I got into a complete Peter Pan outfit and did a little paragraph from the script - and I ended up winning an award for it.

Levi Miller

#9. A blind man knows he cannot see, and is glad to be led, though it be by a dog; but he that is blind in his understanding, which is the worst blindness of all, believes he sees as the best, and scorns a guide.

Samuel Butler

#10. A better way to mutual respect is to engage directly with the moral convictions citizens bring to public life, rather than to require that people leave their deepest moral convictions outside politics before they enter.

Michael Sandel

#11. It was, she said, the way the book had revealed an inherent narcissism in its recipients.

Jon Ronson

#12. In order to be wildly popular you had to make people believe that you were fun and interesting I just wasn't that much of a con artist.

Benjamin Alire Saenz

#13. Church socials, beauty shops and barbershops. If two guys were standing on a corner, I would cross the street to hand them campaign literature. And everywhere I went, I'd get some version of the same two questions. "Where'd you get that funny name?" And then: "You seem

Barack Obama

#14. Men are like wine,
not good before the lees of clownishness be settled.

Owen Feltham

#15. Juno MacGuff: Thanks a heap coyote ugly. This cactus-gram stings worse than your abandonment.

Diablo Cody