Understandingerstanding Quotes

#1. The story of the week is you have got to putt well to win the Masters and I haven't putted well.

Lee Westwood

#2. The fundamental division of powers in the Constitution of the United States is between voters on the one hand and property owners on the other.

Charles A. Beard

#3. [Gratitude is] the cheerfulness of wisdom.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#4. You are more than human. You are a child of God.

Lawrence E. Corbridge

#5. Lifetime dogs intersect with our lives with particular impact; they're dogs we love in especially powerful, sometimes inexplicable, ways.

Jon Katz

#6. Calling a tongue piecing 'cosmetic' is a bit of a stretch, since you don't get one because it makes you look better. You get one because you're so desperate for affection that you're willing to gruesomely harm yourself to advertise how well you suck dick.

Josh Bazell

#7. I did not say history was bunk. It was bunk to me . I did not need it very bad.

Henry Ford

#8. I can't bear the smell of cigars, can you?" said Lady Partridge.
"Lionel hates it too," murmured Rachel. As did Nick, to whom the dry lavatorial stench of cigars signified the inexplicable confidence of other men's tastes and habits, and their readiness to impose them on their fellows.

Alan Hollinghurst

#9. [ ... ] every guy out there gets one shot per woman in a lifetime [ ... ]

Alice Walsh

#10. To express himself well, the artist should be hidden ... The trouble is that if an artist knows he has genius, he's done for. The only salvation is to work like a labourer, and not have delusions of grandeur.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

#11. Any well-read man knows that the moral difference between the condition of the world before Christianity was planted and since Christianity took root is the difference between night and day, the kingdom of heaven and the kingdom of the devil.

J.C. Ryle

#12. People think power makes them big, but it brings out their inner bratty child and makes them small." - Grady Adams - "Breathless by Dean Koontz pg 287 chapter 59

Dean Koontz

#13. Congress and the American people have good reason to fear that we are heading toward another permanent garrison of Americans in a Balkan country where our mission is confused, and our exit strategy a complete mystery.

John McCain

#14. It is not so much WHERE you live, as HOW you live, and whether good flows from you through your neighborhood

William Arthur Dunkerley

#15. Look not for too long into the doughnut, lest the doughnut look into you.

Tom Holt