Doddema Quotes & Sayings

The warrior's nobility is like a prostitute's smile, the truth of which is self-interest. — Georges Bataille

We can no longer apply the classic criteria to clearly determine whether and when we should use military force. We are waging war in Afghanistan, for example, but it's an asymmetrical war where the enemies are criminals instead of soldiers. — Otto Schily

The first theory is that if we make the rich richer, somehow they will let a part of their prosperity trickle down to the rest of us. The second theory was the theory that if we make the average of mankind comfortable and secure, their prosperity will rise upward through the ranks. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

Every successful competitive practice has victims. The more successful a new method of making and distributing a product, the more victims, the deeper the victims' injury — Frank H. Easterbrook

I don't claim to know what it means to say that we are made in the image of God, but I profoundly and instinctively believe it and all that it implies. — Marilynne Robinson

Before me, sprinters retired at 23 or 24. I run because I still like it, I can make a living, and I feel I was born to do it. And because people tell me I can't do it. — Evelyn Ashford

Hassan and I looked at each other. Cracked up. The Hindi kid would soon learn what the British learned earlier in the century, and what the Russians would eventually learn by the late 1980's: that Afghans are an independent people. Afghans cherish customs but abhor rules. And so it was with kite fighting. The rules were simple: No rules. Fly your kite. Cut the opponents. Good luck. — Khaled Hosseini

If the thumbnail version of the Iraq war was that Bush lied about WMD, the thumbnail version of Obama's war in Afghanistan is that the generals pushed him into a war he didn't want to fight. — Michael Hastings

Juanita found herself at Old Jeemy's radio station in a room she could have sworn was a laboratory where creatures with antennas in their heads, knobs for eyes, jagged arms, and dangly legs conducted experiments on the bodies of dead vocalists. — Dan Jenkins

Vlad looked around. Are we providing shelter, or are the humans actually buying books? — Anne Bishop

I have what's called an addiction to Ativan, and Xanax. Which is preferable to admitting to an aversion to planes. — Joshua Cohen

The artist must raise the cup of his vision aloft to the gods in the high hope that they will pour into it the sweet mellow wine of inspiration. — Paul Brunton

You don't seem mad at all,' she said.
But I am, although I'm undergoing a cure, because my problem is that I lack a particular chemical. However, while I hope that the chemical gets rid of my chronic depression, I want to continue being mad, living life the way I dream it, and not the way other people want it to be. Do you know what exists out there, beyond the walls of Villete? — Paulo Coelho

Whether you're a memoirist or not, there's a psychic cost for lopping yourself off from the past: — Mary Karr

The Theory of Evolution has more holes in it than a dam made out of Swiss cheese. — Eoin Colfer