(641 quotes found)
“You can't trust water: Even a straight stick turns crooked in it.”
W. C. Fields
“As the Fletcher whittles and makes straight his arrows, so the master directs his straying thoughts.”
Buddha
“A person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut first and honest people are screwed first.”
Chanakya
“I wanted to destroy everything beautiful I'd never have. Burn the Amazon rain forests. Pump chlorofluorocarbons straight up to gobble the ozone. Open the dump valves on supertankers and uncap offshore oil wells. I wanted to kill all the fish I couldn't afford to eat, and smother the French beaches I'd never see. I wanted the whole world to hit bottom.”
Chuck Palahniuk
“Do not be very upright in your dealings for you would see by going to the forest that straight trees are cut down while crooked ones are left standing.”
“Look down at me and you see a fool; look up at me and you see a god; look straight at me and you see yourself”
Charles Manson
“I was somebody who never loved my hair. I had curly hair and wished it was straight.”
Jennifer Aniston
“Manfred: Let's get something straight, ok? There's no "we". There never was a "we". In fact, without "me", it wouldn't even be a "you".”
Ice Age
“The natural law of inertia: Matter will remain at rest or continue in uniform motion in the same straight line unless acted upon by some external force.”
W. Clement Stone
“You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.”
Aristophanes