Keith Ellison Quotes

Through shallow intellect, the mind becomes shallow, and one eats the fly, along with the sweets.

The definition of a stupid thing is something that if you do everything right, you still get hurt. Fire-eating and love are stupid things.

Nothing good happens after midnight.

I make bad choices. I've got such dodgy tastes in men.

Nobody else is stupid enough to get themselves into the straits that I get into.

Humans have a knack for choosing precisely the things that are worst for them.

Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Mom's. Never sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than your own.

People can do all kinds of things that maybe aren't wise in hindsight because of jealousy.

People go down bad paths and they make bad decisions, but it's always justified in their head.

Only fools answer hypothetical questions.

Cardinals are never off-base. They are often ill-advised.

Our operations of the past and present year produce nothing in effect but additional enemies and national contempt..

Following the automotive pack down unwise and unprofitable roads is not just naive but also very dangerous.

I didn't want to be one of those people that does something that blows up and keeps doing it for way too long.

I don't think there's anything good that comes out of 'Hard Knocks,' but we'll see.

Self-will in the man who does not reckon wisely is by itself the weakest of all things.

For a few months when I was about 17, I smoked a small cigar because I thought it looked cool and it would get me the girls. It didn't.

If I was crazy, I'd throw the ball into the stands with the bases loaded. Now, that's crazy. If I was stupid, I'd throw the ball into center field with the bases loaded and a 3-2 count on the hitter. Now, that's stupid.

Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.

Drug misuse is not a disease, it is a decision, like the decision to step out in front of a moving car. You would call that not a disease but an error of judgment.

One phrase I would dearly like to consign to the can is 'Out of the Box.' The thinking that told us we should invade Iraq and that house prices never decline may have been out of the box, but it put us into the ditch. We have been badly misled by people who persuaded us that they understood things we didn't.

We should never rush into folly just because other nations are practicing it.

It's disturbing at my age to look at a young woman's destructive behaviour and hear the echoes of it, of one's own destructiveness in youth.

She has good instincts, but wrong judgments. She'll rue the day.

I admit to wasting my life messing around with fast cars and motorcycles.