The first rule of holes: when you're in one, stop digging. —Molly Ivins More about this quote Tags: action wisdom debt holes Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
About Molly Ivins Mary Tyler "Molly" Ivins (August 30, 1944 – January 31, 2007) was an American newspaper columnist, author, political commentator, and humorist.
More quotations from Molly Ivins What you need is sustained outrage. . . . There's far too much unthinking respect given to authority. —Molly Ivins More about this quote Tags: authority respect outrage Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email Wouldn't you think some sociologist would have done a comparative study by now to prove, as I have always suspected, that there is a higher proportion of Undeserving Rich than Undeserving Poor? —Molly Ivins More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email Whatever you do, don't give up. Because all you can do once you've given up is bitch. I've known some great bitchers in my time. With some it's a passion; with others, an art. —Molly Ivins More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email It's all very well to run around saying regulation is bad, get the government off our backs, etc. Of course our lives are regulated. When you come to a stop sign, you stop; if you want to go fishing, you get a license; if you want to shoot ducks, you can shoot only three ducks. The alternative is dead bodies at the intersection, no fish, and no ducks. OK? —Molly Ivins More about this quote Tags: government traffic regulation libertarianism Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
What you need is sustained outrage. . . . There's far too much unthinking respect given to authority. —Molly Ivins More about this quote Tags: authority respect outrage Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Wouldn't you think some sociologist would have done a comparative study by now to prove, as I have always suspected, that there is a higher proportion of Undeserving Rich than Undeserving Poor? —Molly Ivins More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Whatever you do, don't give up. Because all you can do once you've given up is bitch. I've known some great bitchers in my time. With some it's a passion; with others, an art. —Molly Ivins More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It's all very well to run around saying regulation is bad, get the government off our backs, etc. Of course our lives are regulated. When you come to a stop sign, you stop; if you want to go fishing, you get a license; if you want to shoot ducks, you can shoot only three ducks. The alternative is dead bodies at the intersection, no fish, and no ducks. OK? —Molly Ivins More about this quote Tags: government traffic regulation libertarianism Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
More quotations tagged with “debt” The debt of gratitude we owe our mother and father goes forward, not backward. What we owe our parents is the bill presented to us by our children. —Nancy Friday More about this quote Tags: gratitude children parents debt Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email A true lover always feels in debt to the one he loves. —Ralph W. Sockman More about this quote Tags: love debt Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email Capitalism is an art form, an Apollonian fabrication to rival nature. It is hypocritical for feminists and intellectuals to enjoy the pleasures and conveniences of capitalism while sneering at it. … Everyone born into capitalism has incurred a debt to it. Give Caesar his due. —Camille Paglia More about this quote Tags: enjoyment feminism nature capitalism debt Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email I don’t owe people anything, and I don’t have to talk to them any more than I feel I need to. —Ned Vizzini in It’s Kind of a Funny Story More about this quote Tags: necessity debt talking Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email A promise made is a debt unpaid. —Robert W. Service More about this quote Tags: debt promises Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The debt of gratitude we owe our mother and father goes forward, not backward. What we owe our parents is the bill presented to us by our children. —Nancy Friday More about this quote Tags: gratitude children parents debt Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A true lover always feels in debt to the one he loves. —Ralph W. Sockman More about this quote Tags: love debt Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Capitalism is an art form, an Apollonian fabrication to rival nature. It is hypocritical for feminists and intellectuals to enjoy the pleasures and conveniences of capitalism while sneering at it. … Everyone born into capitalism has incurred a debt to it. Give Caesar his due. —Camille Paglia More about this quote Tags: enjoyment feminism nature capitalism debt Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I don’t owe people anything, and I don’t have to talk to them any more than I feel I need to. —Ned Vizzini in It’s Kind of a Funny Story More about this quote Tags: necessity debt talking Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A promise made is a debt unpaid. —Robert W. Service More about this quote Tags: debt promises Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email