Citizen Koch Quotes & Sayings

I'll tell you what's real. Real is that I was in jail for the past year, rooming with drug dealers and eating crap food your dog wouldn't touch. Real is not being able to wear your own frickin' underwear and showering with twenty-five other dicks every day while guards watch. Real is my next-door neighbor who walks like she's balancing on stilts because her leg is so fucked up from the accident. Brian, your perception of reality is totally off. — Simone Elkeles

You can change a person in their exterior aspects, but the soul remains, it still is there, and especially if that person has been changed involuntarily. — Antonio Banderas

He thought I was strong, but he was willing to lay down his life to protect me. He thought I was beautiful, but he treated me as a precious gift instead of something to take for his own pleasure. He thought I was worth something, and he was worth everything to me. This man had endured lifetimes of suffering, but he could still love, and give, and dream of his future. He was a leader who would sacrifice himself for the weak, who used all his gifts - his intelligence, his cunning, his strength - to protect others. It was a privilege to love him, even to have a shot at giving him the things he needed. — Sarah Fine

No sane creator, setting out from scratch to design a flat-fish, would have conceived on his drawing board the absurd distortion of the head needed to bring both eyes round to one side. — Richard Dawkins

Once outside, the man stopped, lifted his head, took a deep breath and slowly exhaled, as if the air smelled wonderful to him. Then he turned to Jimmy, his expression hard and serious. "We will need an army."
"Uh, I don't exactly have one of those handy. — Linda Howard

Tell your readers to use it or lose it. If you don't use your muscles, they get weak. If you don't use your mind it begins to fail. — John Templeton

THEIR ADULT CHILDREN ARE ECONOMICALLY SELF-SUFFICIENT. — Thomas J. Stanley

Hard work can sometimes substitute for natural ability, but natural ability almost never makes up for not being willing to do the work. — Catherine Ryan Hyde

I'm proud of my record of negotiating agreements, representing people and making sure that both employers and employees could get the best out of going to work every day. — Bill Shorten

The more virtuous any man is, the less easily does he suspect others to be vicious. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

Well, yes, Dustpaw, launching an attack and knocking me back across the border is one option. But is it wise to take on a cat twice your size? — Erin Hunter

I always start from scratch with a character - they're never based on anyone else. You get ideas of what people look like, and I'm a great people watcher. You can draw inspiration from people. — Amanda Burton

Emerging markets have shifted from being a major support to world trade growth to a significant drag, — Anonymous

I went to college to play football, not to study it. — Art Donovan

There is nothing sane about the worship of beauty. It is too splendid to be sane. Those of whose lives it forms the dominant note will always seem to the world to be pure visionaries. — Oscar Wilde