Andrasch Starke Quotes & Sayings

Bobbington seemed to be lost in thought. A lion dressed in a lavender bonnet would likely not have drawn his attention. — Cindy Anstey

The federal [bank deposit] insurance scheme has worked up to now simply and solely because there have been very few bank failures. The next time we have a pestilence of them it will come to grief quickly enough, and if the good banks escape ruin with the bad ones it will be only because the taxpayer foots the bill. — H.L. Mencken

You're the only one who knows when you're using things to protect yourself and keep your ego together and when you're opening and letting things fall apart, letting the world come as it is - working with it rather than struggling against it. You're the only one who knows. — Pema Chodron

Hate is ravening vulture beaks descending on a place of skulls. — Amy Lowell

I know as a child, I was really interested in becoming a manga artist, to create my own stories and illustrate them and present something that people would be interested in reading and looking at as well. — Shigeru Miyamoto

Goats are naught but bones and bleating, and their hair was not warm nor their bodies soft. Of course, there was the smell, too, bitter as overripe vinegar, intrusive as bile. — Nancy E. Turner

I would not plan to base my campaign primarily on opposition to the war in the Persian Gulf. — George McGovern

Well, shoot, I don't believe in double standards, where men can get away with things that women can't. In God's eyes, there's no double standard. — Loretta Lynn

Some people aren't hard to love; they're just bad at being loved. — Evan Tyler

I think it's the most responsible thing you can do, to have kids. It's not something to be taken lightly. I don't have that gene that people have to replicate. — George Clooney

Victory is in the quality of the competition, not just the final score. — Mike Marshall

In adversity they know not where to turn, but beg and pray for counsel from every passer-by. No plan is then too futile, too absurd, or too fatuous for their adoption; the most frivolous causes will raise them to hope, or plunge them into despair - if anything happens during their fright which reminds them of some past good or ill, they think it portends a happy or unhappy issue, and therefore (though it may have proved abortive a hundred times before) style it a lucky or unlucky omen. Anything that excites their astonishment they believe to be a portent signifying the anger of the gods or of the Supreme Being, and, mistaking superstition for religion, account it impious not to avert the evil with prayer and sacrifice. Signs and wonders of this sort they conjure up perpetually, till one might think Nature as mad as themselves, they interpret her so fantastically. — Christopher Hitchens

The FBI has had a history of sex discrimination complaints brought against it, as well as race discrimination. — Anita Hill

I have many friends who are both Mexican and Mexican-American and others who, I guess you would say, are somewhere in between. The ironic thing is that all three of those categories often exist inside of the same family. — Conor Oberst

Being alone is a terrible, terrible thing. There's no one to run to, no one to confide in, no one who cares what happens to you. — Richelle Mead