A Quote by Robert Louis Stevenson
To be overwise is to ossify; and the scruple-monger ends by standing stockstill.
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I hope that nothing ever wussifies me to deny my own personal beliefs. Brainwashed wussies have been taught that standing up for yourself and defending your personal point of view makes you a close-minded hate monger. One must also be respectful of dissenting belief while supporting their own.
When love ends, the beloved is no longer standing on a pedestal, but in a hole.
The phrases that men hear or repeat continually, end by becoming convictions and ossify the organs of intelligence.
Don’t be overwise; fling yourself straight into life, without deliberation; don’t be afraid - the flood will bear you to the bank and set you safe on your feet again.
Moderately wise each one should be, Not overwise, for a wise man's heart Is seldom glad (Norse Wisdom)
We have a long-standing tradition in this country to follow the advice of Senator Vandenberg, which is that politics ends at the water's edge.
Liberty has as many chains as an iron-monger's shop, and as rusty.
I think ideas should be flying about and banging into each other. It is a kind of energy. If you occupy static positions, then things sort of ossify.
Standing, standing, standing - why do I have to stand all the time? That is the main characteristic of social Washington.
Let old ones go. Dont be a memory-monger! Once you were young??now you are even younger.
I'm standing up for the right of self-determination. I'm standing up for our territory. I'm standing up for our people. I'm standing up for international law. I'm standing up for all those territories - those small territories and peoples the world over - who, if someone doesn't stand up and say to an invader 'enough, stop', would be at risk.
Music: breathing of statues. Perhaps: silence of paintings. You language where all language ends. You time standing vertically on the motion of mortal hearts.
Too often, a vast collection of possessions ends up possessing its owner. The asset I most value, aside from health, is interesting, diverse, and long-standing friends.
Our party never tolerated those who use violence for political ends. Our leaders lost their lives standing against terrorism.
I don't watch sports through the eyes of a stats nerd or an anger monger. I truly love stories and characters and the flash and the sexiness of it all.
Writing is conscience, scruple, and the farming of our ancestors.
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