Defenestrated Def Quotes & Sayings

How many votes does it take to get the United States of America firmly into the legal nightmare described in Gabriel's Stand? Sixty seven plus five. That is two-thirds of the US Senate (the House need not be consulted) and a five vote majority on the Supreme Court.

If we ever do something so suicidally foolish we will not have lost a war - it will just feel like it. — Jay B. Gaskill

A child fairer than a pictured cherub - a creature who seemed to shed radiance from her looks and whose form and motions were lighter than the chamois of the hills. — Mary Shelley

My Lasher is powerful beyond your
dreams of a daimon, and he has learnt much.'
'Learned,' I repeated in amazement. 'How learned, Deborah, for he is merely a spirit, and they are
forever foolish and therein lies the danger, that in granting our wishes they do not understand the
complexity of them, and thereby prove our undoing. There are a thousand tales that prove it. Has this not
happened? How so do you say learned? — Anne Rice

When you're "East Coast" person, you are so insufferable, and you have no idea. And I was. One, because I was miserable, and nobody liked to be around a miserable person, and two, everything that I thought was so profound, everyone had already dealt with. — Mindy Kaling

For glory lit, and life alive, for goals unreached and aims to strive. All men must try, the wind did see. It is the test, it is the dream. — Brandon Sanderson

I love the city and the people of Munich. I have many great friends there. — Steve Purdy

Everyone else reached the Shores of Sleep, but I remained oceans away. — Gail Carson Levine

Decide first what is authentic,then go after it with all your heart. — Louise Erdrich

I write because it's my way of finding cool ideas, thinking through hard problems and things I don't understand, and getting better at something. — Atul Gawande

A man must completely despair of himself in order to become fit to obtain the grace of Christ. — Martin Luther

Our imperfections make us unique as surely as our strengths. — Toni Sorenson

Whiskey is all right in its place - but its place is hell. — Billy Sunday

This would be depressing but for one crucial fact: humans are distinguished from other species by our ability to work miracles. We call these miracles technology. — Peter Thiel

All of them - my father, mother, step-mother, and grandmother - were all wonderful actors and performers and they are an inspiration to me, both in their craft and in their humanity. — James Cromwell

Admiration takes on a whole new level when you appreciate just how complex it is to run a modern business. — Ursula Burns