Decombel Quotes & Sayings

If I were an immigrant Latino not born in the US, I could not have written Searching for Whitopia: An Improbably Journey to the Heart of America book. And that is because many of the Whitopians would not have been comfortable talking about their views on immigration, talking about their views on taxes. And they wouldn't have spilled to me the new script on race and poverty as they did. — Richard Benjamin

Time erodes people, and when you are old enough you weigh nothing. It's comforting to know that I will never be as frail. — Maija Haavisto

We fail because we give up, and we give up because we never had a plan in the first place — Robin Sieger

He had the ability to appear in the background, even if he was standing at the front of a queue. — Markus Zusak

Un homme avec Dieu est toujours dans la majorite . One man with God is always a majority. — John Knox

It's correct that I'm a bad loser. Why should I lie? If I was good at losing I wouldn't be in Formula 1. I think it's more honest to act how you really feel than pretending to be the smiling boy who actually isn't in the mood to smile. — Sebastian Vettel

I tap a Malediction out of the box, fire it up, and puff. It tastes like a tire fire in a candy factory next door to a strip club. The best cigarettes ever. — Richard Kadrey

You could try and go through life without help from others, but you'd live a pretty lonely life and you wouldn't get far. — Chelsea M. Cameron

But we are the people of England; and we have not spoken yet. Smile at us, pay us, pass us. But do not quite forget. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

I loved the way drink made me feel, and I loved it's special power of deflection, it's ability to shift my focus away from my own awareness of self and onto something else, something less painful than my own feelings. I loved the sounds of drink: the slide of a cork as it eased out of a wine bottle, the distinct glug-glug of booze pouring into a glass, the clatter of ice cubes in a tumbler. I loved the rituals, the camaraderie of drinking with others, the warming, melting feeling of ease and courage it gave me. — Caroline Knapp

Trust, Kiki said, Trust is peppermints. — Maria V. Snyder