Badass Reaper Quotes & Sayings

On his back, Robert must have had time to see something beautiful, and not just the ugliness of a city street at the end of life. Even with the tremendous pain in his badly gutted belly he would have looked up beyond the fire escapes and the windows with their glittery trees and television glows, to the sky about the rooftops. A sky shimmery with the possibilities of the death; lights exaggerated, the heavens peeled back- a swirling haze of nebulae and comets - in some distant place, intimations of the new beginning into which he would soon journey — Oscar Hijuelos

We had a level of tariffs of about five per cent. Now a lot of those will go, most of them will go over time, some of them immediately. Now that means that electronic goods and other things, white goods, coming into Australia, will be cheaper for our community. It also means in many cases that the inputs used by our high-end manufacturers to make a final product are also coming in cheaper than they otherwise would - so it makes those manufacturers more competitive. — Andrew Robb

Violent ideologies follow their own logic, the logic that sustains the system - a convoluted logic that unravels when it, itself, is labeled. — Melanie Joy

The world might not see it or think of it,
But you are enough to have someone
sacrificed for you.
That should tell you that not every hardship
you go through is permanent,
It is just temporary.
It's like a starter,
You still have the dessert to enjoy. — Nomthandazo Tsembeni

The 60th seed at Wimbledon gets a chance at Center Court. The 60th seed in the NCAA gets a chance to go to the Final Four. But the third seed [in presidential politics] is shut out. — Ralph Nader

The people who feel the most strongly about something will turn on you the most vociferously if they feel you've let them down. — Joss Whedon

To truly be a medicine cat lies in a cat's heart, and all its five senses. You must be braver than warriors, wiser than a clan leader, humbler than the tiniest kit, more willing to learn than an apprentice ... — Erin Hunter

Too often, parents today allow their desire to please their child to govern their parenting. If your relationship with your child is governed by your own desire to be loved by him or her, the odds are good that you will not achieve even that objective. — Leonard Sax

To me, 'Warrior' was a real turning point - probably one of the greatest experiences I've ever had as an actor on set. — Joel Edgerton

You know, most people called rap stupid when it started, and it was one of the most innovative music forms of its time. — Dan Deacon