Bade Log Quotes & Sayings

Words are deceptive. You think you understand something because it's explained to you and now you are under no obligation to do anything because you understand it. — Frederick Lenz

Burn the books and trust the Book; shred the papers and hear the Word. — Salman Rushdie

I used to have terrible tantrums. I was temperamental when I was younger. Actually, what I needed was a swift kick in the pants. What a brat! — Dorothy Hamill

We love a tale of heroes and villains and conflicts requiring a neat resolution. — Barry Ritholtz

Was there something distinctive about American civil society that gave democracy a better chance than in France, as Tocqueville argued? Was the already centralized French state more likely to produce a Napoleon than the decentralized United States? We cannot be sure. But it is not unreasonable to ask how long the US constitution would have lasted if the United States had suffered the same military and economic strains that swept away the French constitution of 1791 — Niall Ferguson

You just wait and see. The lily-livered b*stards in Washington will demobilize. They'll say they've made the world safe for democracy again. The Russians are not such d*mned fools. They'll rebuild; and with modern weapons. — George S. Patton

The reconciling grave swallows distinction first, that made us foes; there all lie down in peace together. — Thomas Southerne

I think it will be helpful to people because I know the expectations that are put on you as a sex symbol, and how Marilyn Monroe suffered and so on, and I was able to get free of that. — Kim Novak

I continue to shun, in a very curmudgeonly fashion, things like Twitter and Facebook. — Julia Glass