Countermanded Orders Quotes & Sayings

Large carbon and resource savings arising from efficiency and renewable energy programmes will be completely cancelled out by the added resource needs of even small population increases. Action is urgently required on both fronts to protect our life on earth — Phil Harding

I wanted to reject it all because I was sick of being perfect. I was so bored with normality and dreams of poster boys and tabloid covers. — J. Merridew

Laughter is a virus that infects you with humanity. — Luis Alberto Urrea

That was interesting."
"He deliberately countermanded one of my orders."
"He was furtive."
"Sneaky, even."
"We'll make a Rebellion-style pilot of him yet."
Tycho & Wedge (about Jag) — Aaron Allston

Music is like the genius of humankind, universal ... People who have never really taken the time to get into music, their lives are a lot smaller. Kids deserve the richness and dimension of it in their lives. — Flea

I love a stupid joke, something that doesn't make any sense. — Chelsea Handler

Let's go downtown," Dad said. "By the public library. You never know what wild and crazy things might be happening at the library. — Marion Jensen

Any of us can achieve virtue, if by virtue we merely mean the avoidance of the vices that do not attract us. — Robert Staughton Lynd

The local TV news is the greatest danger in your life. It's all crap. — Ray Bradbury

How somebody can't recognize their own eyes, I'll never know. — Sally Thorne

A writer's life stands in relation to his work as a house does to a garden, related but distinct. — Mavis Gallant

We have be-come irrevocably involved with, and responsible for, each other. — Marshall McLuhan

Each of us should take personal responsibility for our diet, and our children's diet, and the government's role should be to make certain it provides the best information possible to help people stay healthy. — Jim Talent

People in general are not interested in paying extra for increased safety. At the beginning seat belts cost $200 and nobody bought them. — Gene Spafford