Bias of Priene Quotes

Cherish wisdom as a means of travelling from youth to old age, for it is more lasting than any other possession.

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• The one thing that is sort of sneered at and not really believed is bisexuality. Any bisexual man is just seen as a closeted gay man. That shows how narrow-minded people are. The other thing that's totally neglected and which nobody approves of is celibacy. People again assume that you're just repressing something.

  

  Edmund White
  • People
  • Man
  • Gay

• It seems to me that in literature, books have always been answers to other books.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Me
  • Always
  • Literature

• I will sign pro life bills. But what people are interested in is what we can do to create jobs, grow the economy, and keep our costs under control.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • People
  • Life
  • Control

• Facetiousness is allowable when it is the most proper instrument of exposing things apparently base and vile to due contempt.

  

  Isaac Barrow
  • Things
  • Instrument
  • Contempt

• I am upset and completely disappointed in the government, the millionaires and billionaires in the U.S. See what's happening to the country? Look at all the health problems, the economy, the recession and crime.

  

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
  • Health
  • Government
  • Economy

• I'm not gonna be broke, like my mom was broke, my uncles were broke, my sisters didn't have money, my cousins on down.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Money
  • Mom
  • Down

• Belief in the absence of illusions is itself an illusion.

  

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
  • Belief
  • Illusion
  • Illusions

• You have to change your life for yourself, and it's about the fun of getting there - sitting in the tour van, breaking down on the side of the road, you know, having a laugh with the guys in the band, making mistakes with nobody watching.

  

  Imelda May
  • Life
  • Fun
  • Change

• I'm belligerent rather than ambitious.

  

  Ian Hart
  • Ambitious
  • Rather
  • Than

• We are not afraid of nuclear weapons. The point is that if we had in fact wanted to build a nuclear bomb, we are brave enough to say that we want it. But we never do that.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • Want
  • Enough
  • Brave

• Some people are worried about the difference between right and wrong. I'm worried about the difference between wrong and fun.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Fun

• If only she could have held on to that day, held on to that moment forever, grasped it in her fists so it wouldn't escape. If only.

  

  Patricia Reilly Giff
  • She
  • Forever

• I waste energy on anger rather than investing it in hope.

  

  Parker Palmer
  • Hope
  • Energy

• The commander's talents are given greatest scope in rough hilly country. Mountains allow him too little real command over his scattered units and he is unable to control them all; in open country, control is a simple matter and does not test his ability to the fullest.

  

  Carl von Clausewitz
  • Country
  • Real
  • Control

• Brainwashed from rock and rap.

  

  Eminem
  • Rock
  • Rap

• The vision I would like to see here is the entrenching of the Jewish and the Zionist state. I very much favor democracy, but when there is a contradiction between democratic and Jewish values, the Jewish and Zionist values are more important.

  

  Avigdor Lieberman
  • Important
  • Democracy
  • Vision

• Dictionary, n. A malevolent literary device for cramping the growth of a language and making it hard and inelastic. This dictionary, however, is a most useful work.

  

  Ambrose Bierce
  • Work
  • Growth

• I do this weird thing in studios where I climb stuff when I get nervous.

  

  Charli XCX
  • Weird

• Needless to say, the business of living interferes with the solitude so needed for any work of the imagination. Here's what Virginia Woolf said in her diary about the sticky issue: "I've shirked two parties, and another Frenchman, and buying a hat, and tea with Hilda Trevelyan, for I really can't combine all this with keeping all my imaginary people going.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • People
  • Party
  • Imagination

• When we use punishment, our children are robbed of the opportunity to develop their own inner discipline-the ability to act with integrity, wisdom, compassion, and mercy when there is no external force holding them accountable for what they do.

  

  Barbara Coloroso
  • Children
  • Opportunity
  • Wisdom

• I don't buy this premise that the number of minifigures needs to be an equal amount to be gender neutral. Nobody makes artistic products like that; nobody makes a movie and says there has to be equal numbers of men and women.

  

  Jorgen Vig Knudstorp
  • Figures
  • Amount
  • Neutral

• My most important problem was destroying the lines of demarcation that separate what seems real from what seems fantastic.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Important
  • Real

• Cherish wisdom as a means of travelling from youth to old age, for it is more lasting than any other possession.

  

  Bias of Priene
  • Wisdom
  • Possession
  • Travelling