Devern Fromke Quotes & Sayings

The public has been sold a bill of goods about the free market being a panacea for mankind. — Tom Scholz

I push him off, sit up an start puttin my clothes to rights. He's made a heroic effort to undress me.
You work fast, I says.
Yer a moving target, I hafts. Here, he says, lemme help.
I button, he unbuttons. I tuck, he untucks.
I slap his hand. I'll do it myself, I says. — Moira Young

When journalists and politicians speak of a dwindling middle class that's under economic assault and a poor community that's getting bigger, they're talking about Ferguson. Independent of the racial demographics and dynamics of Ferguson, Missouri, there's a 'Ferguson' near you. — Jesse Jackson

Flying to Monterey I had a sharp apprehension of the many times before when I had, like Lincoln Steffens, "come back," flown west, followed the sun, each time experiencing a lightening of spirit as the land below opened up, the checkerboards of the midwestern plains giving way to the vast empty reach between the Rockies and the Sierra Nevada; then home, there, where I was from, me, California. It would be a while before I realized that "me" is what we think when our parents die, even at my age, who will look out for me now, who will remember me as I was, who will know what happens to me now, where will I be from. — Joan Didion

Using the confirmation bias, these people will tell you that religion was horrible for mankind by counting deaths from the Inquisition and various religious wars. But they will not show you how many people were killed by nationalism, social science, and political theory under Stalinism or during the Vietnam War. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

My biggest fantasy was to have a pie thrown in my face, and I always said whoever did that, that's the guy I'd marry. — Sarah Shahi

Religion and science have nothing to do with each other, they're about different things, science is about the way the world works and religion is about miracles, I mean, if you ask most ordinary people in church or in a mosque why they believe, it's almost certainly got something to do with the belief that God does wonderful things, that God intervenes, that God heals the sick, that God answers prayers, God forgives sins. — Richard Dawkins

No one is going to be powerful in their ministry if they are hiding something that they are afraid people will find out at any moment. — David Jeremiah

I could do Daniel Day-Lewis's job as well as him. — Laurence Fox

It is dreadful that one cannot tear the past out by the roots. — Leo Tolstoy

Happiness can be a cruel thing in the face of someone else's grief. — Sasha Gould

Lori, did you and Adam have a fight? I mean, another fight? A humdinger?"
I snorted. "No, I'm sobbing in Frances's lap because she will marry our father someday and bring back the vegi/soy mayonnaise."
"What's the matter with vegi/soy mayonnaise?" Frances asked.
McGillicuddy wrinkled his nose at the memory. — Jennifer Echols

He came to see, and I did too, that patriarchy wounds men also, that men have their own journeys to make in order to heal and differentiate themselves from it. — Sue Monk Kidd

Those Russians. They did worse things when they entered Pomerania than we ever did in Russia. — Walther Funk