Awerbuchs Quotes & Sayings

God forbid I should be the last one to criticize, but I think may be Howard Dean has a bit of a problem because earlier today during a debate in New Hampshire, he bit off Joe Lieberman's ear. — David Letterman

Anti-submarine warfare is the military version of chess. You must work out what the enemy is going to do before they even think of it. — Sarah West

As a matter of fact they'd blacken us down. I guess there's a reason that according to what the Caucasian wanted us to look like. He wanted us to look-if we were Black, then he had his idea of what we look like. — Billy Eckstine

You can't quit or give up before you get it! — Eric Thomas

Women can always be caught; that's the first rule of the game. — Ovid

I'm fighting Miguel Cotto on May 5th because Miss Pac Man is ducking me — Floyd Mayweather Jr.

Taking ideas seriously does not fit with the rhetorical style of textbooks, which presents events so as to make them seem foreordained along a line of constant progress. Including ideas would make history contingent: things could go either way, and have on occasion. The 'right' people, armed with the 'right' ideas, have not always won. When they didn't, the authors would be in the embarrassing position of having to disapprove of an outcome in the past. Including ideas would introduce uncertainty. This is not textbook style. — James W. Loewen

Perhaps such secrets, the secrets of everyone, were only expressed when the person laboriously ragged them into the light of the world, imposed them on the world, and made them a part of the world's experience. Without this effort, the secret place was merely a dungeon in which the person perished; without this effort, indeed, the entire world would be an uninhabitable darkness; and she saw, with a dreadful reluctance why this effort was so rare. — James Baldwin

Avoiding things that you deem unattainable on first sight will limit you. — Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

At a time when America should be doing everything we can to lead the fight to defeat ISIS and other radical jihadists, Donald Trump is playing right into their hands. — Rachel Maddow

I refuse to adapt or integrate myself. — Imre Kertesz

I love musical theater. That's what I started off to do when I was 7, and my first show was 'Peter Pan.' — David Hasselhoff