Bernis Name Quotes & Sayings

I had the good sense even then to realize patting oneself on the back is a waste of time. Besides, there are much better places to pat oneself if one must, indeed, pat. — W.B. Keckler

Everything in life is gray, you know. — Jeannette Walls

Drill everything, mine everything, roll back regulations, tweak the science, expedite permits. Sound familiar? The Republicans offer up more 19th-Century solutions to our 21st-Century energy problems. — Jeff Goodell

Power is based, at bottom, on the ability to kill; thus the means of killing have to be available, even if only to a select few. — Kim Newman

The world was a cruder, more vulgar place than the one I had known. This was the language required to live in it, I supposed. — Alice McDermott

there is more strength
in admitting vulnerability
than in faking invincibility — Rick Julian

I don't believe that shamanism without hallucinogens is authentic shamanism or comfortable shamanism. — Terence McKenna

Racists will always call you a racist when you identify their racism. To love yourself now - is a form of racism. We are the only people who are criticized for loving ourselves. and white people think when you love yourself you hate them. No, when I love myself they become irrelevant to me. — John Henrik Clarke

No one who reads this book will remain unchanged or unaffected-Julene Bair's story arcs from the cornfields of Kansas and Nebraska to the food on our tables and the gas in our cars. There is always a price to be paid, she reminds us, for the pleasures and comforts of this day. If you read only one memoir this year, this is the one to read and pass along. — Jonis Agee

In respect of Indonesia, I am determined to be the best possible friend of Indonesia that I can be, consistent with my overriding duty to protect our country. We would never do anything that was damaging to Indonesia, because we want Indonesia to flourish. We want Indonesia to take its rightful place as one of the really important countries of the world, as it will, sooner or later. — Tony Abbott

What Mr. Obama wants in a nominee isn't really 'empathy' and 'understanding.' He wants a liberal, activist Supreme Court justice. — Karl Rove

He finished the bandage and was examining it critically.
"You know those things are unreliable." His voice held just a touch of reproach.
"Eleven out of twelve work fine. I'd say that's better chances than getting an orgasm with a blind date and women still try. — Ilona Andrews

Why do we invent the monster as a metaphor? Surely all we need do is witness our own cruelty to each other to see the real face of evil. — Mark T. Barnes