Admiral Gravely Quotes & Sayings

Look at the Chandra Levy case. It's become a Star Chamber. The major networks, the cable networks, they're being prosecutors. They're judges and jurors and executioners. Well, c'mon, that's ridiculous. But they're doing it. — Ray Bradbury

My Philosphy says that to be really truthful with somebody, after all in most cases it ends the friendship, to be fake the friendship starts... - Pretty Strange! — Deyth Banger

He'd often said that keeping things to himself was a matter of survival. Barracus had often told her that if she was doing something important she shouldn't tell people anything they didn't need to know. He lived his life by that rule. In fact, he often wouldn't tell Magda about things he thought she didn't need to know. Like why he killed himself. — Terry Goodkind

I respect kindness in human beings first of all, and kindness to animals. I don't respect the law; I have a total irreverence for anything connected with society except that which makes the roads safer, the beer stronger, the food cheaper and the old men and old women warmer in the winter and happier in the summer. — Brendan Behan

In my breaking through ... I transcend all creatures and am neither God nor creature ... for in this breaking through I find that God and I are both the same. — Meister Eckhart

Anonymous is like an amoeba: it's got too many different operations run by truly different people which might not share a single person with another operation, but they use the same branding - they are part of the Anonymous brand, just like al-Qaida. — Mikko Hypponen

A young fellow ought to be wiser than he should seem to be; and an old fellow ought to seem wise whether he really be so or not. — Lord Chesterfield

I always interrupt work with other work, either in a small way or big way, so that's normal. — Lydia Davis

We must pass like smoke or live within the spirit's fire;
For we can no more than smoke unto the flame return
If our thought has changed to dream, our will unto desire,
As smoke we vanish though the fire may burn. — George William Russell

Words become luminous when the poet's finger has passed over them its phosphorescence. — Joseph Joubert

America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole. — Bobcat Goldthwait

Nothing is impossible, you only have to believe that it is possible, and then go for it. — Gary Edward Gedall

Values determine behavior; Principles determine the consequences of behavior. — Stephen Covey

One of the things the police officers told us in the first minutes of being with them is that the way that they cope with their job is by using a lot of inappropriate humour. It's really a lovely opportunity to try to challenge our ideas of what it is to deal with complex issues, and that they're not always dower. Having that kind of humour along with the pathos for what people are going through is a really nice challenge. — Kristin Lehman