Arics Quotes & Sayings

The liberals are fighting so hard whenever President Bush appoints any federal judges. — Steve Chabot

If there is a perfect book to start the year with it has to be Rebecca Mead's My Life in Middlemarch. — The Edge

Nevertheless, to question authority is not, in principle, to attack it, although authority always assumes that this is the case since authority must repeatedly establish its right to rule; and if this is done by force, then it turns out that it was a tyranny all along. Good heavens, I can't believe I am preaching this to an audience of Irishmen! Just think about it: a quarter of an hour of rational thinking and an Englishman turns into an Irishman. — Terry Pratchett

Man's condition is horrible because, no matter what form his happiness may take, it arises from some species of ignorance. — Honore De Balzac

Both a priori reasoning and experience teach us that as as these funds grow larger the geometrical rate of growth by compound interest ultimately defeats itself. — Benjamin Graham

Obviously all religions get corrupted by man. The initial ideas are interesting but once they get organized they seem to become about politics and other things and they get misinterpreted ... Have faith but do the work. Live your life right. Dont expect things to happen. Thats why Im put off by magical realism. — Matt Dillon

All knowledge, the totality of all questions and answers, is contained in the dog. — Franz Kafka

Having to admit that you are depressed makes one feel less than. Broken. Yes, that's what it is. Broken. — Gillian Marchenko

A gut wound will drop a man in his tracks every time. Harper always found it more personal than bullets, getting right up into someone. It made the war bearable. — Lauren Beukes

Rewriting is a large part of the whole job. And get rid of stuff that's not working. Just pare it down until it's a beautiful thing you can hand in, probably late, to your editor. — Kurt Loder

The plaque the Romans placed above Jesus's head as he writhed in pain - "King of the Jews" - was called a titulus and, despite common perception, was not meant to be sarcastic. Every criminal who hung on a cross received a plaque declaring the specific crime for which he was being executed. Jesus's crime, in the eyes of Rome, was striving for kingly rule (i.e., treason), the same crime for which nearly every other messianic aspirant of the time was killed. — Reza Aslan

I have been both praised and criticized. The criticism stung, but the praise sometimes bothered me even more. To have received such praise and honors has always been puzzling to me. — Billy Joel

Never had he felt a pussy this amazing - so hot, wet, suctioning, and oh-so-tight around him. — Suzanne Wright

Read a ton, write every day if you can, and don't mimic another writer's style. Find your own voice. — James Patterson

To put that into some perspective, when Bill Clinton and Al Gore had first taken the idea of the Kyoto Protocol up to the Congress, the United States Senate voted it down 95 to nothing. — Christine Todd Whitman