Atredn K Quotes & Sayings

As if someone had thrown a hand grenade into the middle of a teddy bear orgy and the only survivors had had their fur blown off. — Christopher Moore

Everything you do leaves traces, doesn't it. The life you've lived is written all over you, for those who can read. — Jo Nesbo

If you don't want to have to kill or capture every bad guy in the country, you have to reintegrate those who are willing to be reconciled and become part of the solution instead of a continued part of the problem. And then, above all, the resources. — David Petraeus

The current administration has made the decision to cut dollars going for community development block grants, for various incentives to bring cities back. — Stephanie Tubbs Jones

If you're black, you can't just be ordinary. All successful black people are extraordinary. — Tyler Perry

Our opinions partake, more or less, of the prejudices of our class, party, or sect. We are all largely pledged, through interest, affection, or passion, to particular classes of opinion, and the strength of efforts to get released from these pledges, is the measure of our advancement. — Christian Nestell Bovee

Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history. — Henry James

When I wake to the gift of yet another sunrise my first thought is to rouse him and say, I owe you the sight of morning. — Abraham Verghese

The only rule is that you can't cross this line. If the ball hits you, you're
out. If someone catches a ball you throw, you're out. We'll keep playing until there are five of you left," Dinkleman explained.
I thought to myself, "What the fuck? That was like, four rules, not one. — Phil Wohl

I'll think about things for thirty or forty years before I'll write it. — Richard Brautigan

Whether Jew or Gentile, I rank top percentile. — Lauryn Hill

The much-discussed estimate of twenty-two vets a day committing suicide in the United States is deceptive: it was only in 2008 that - for the first time in decades- the suicide rate among veterans surpassed the civilian rate in America, and though each death is enormously tragic, the majority of those veterans were over the age of fifty. Many were Vietnam vets and, generally speaking, the more time that passes after a trauma, the less likely a suicide is to have anything to do with it. — Sebastian Junger

I have my teachers who tell me what to do. I'm not quite old enough yet to be truly independent. — Victor LaValle

What's poetry? I've never heard the word before, but I like the sound of it. It sounds elegant and easy, somehow, like a beautiful woman turning in a long dress. — Lauren Oliver

Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life. — George Bernard Shaw