Final Fantasy X-2 Rikku Quotes & Sayings

Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception. — George Orwell

For (strange as it may sound to many people, who tend to think of critics as being motivated by the lower emotions: envy, disdain, contempt even) critics are, above all, people who are in love with beautiful things, and who worry that those things will get broken. What motivates so many of us to write in the first place is, to begin with, a great passion for a subject (Tennessee Williams, Balanchine, jazz, the twentieth-century novel, whatever) that we find beautiful; and, then, a kind of corresponding anxiety about the fragility of that beauty. — Daniel Mendelsohn

There are things we cannot control about ourselves. One of these things is the degree to which we find something to be funny. It — Chuck Klosterman

A good soldier never leaves a man behind. — Sarge

I'll wreck," he whispered. She ran her fingers up the back of his hair. "I like making you wreck." "That's not very nice." His — Lucian Bane

Additionally, this tax forces family businesses to invest in Uncle Sam rather than the economy. When families are forced to repurchase businesses because of the death tax, that means less money is being invested in new jobs and capital expansion. — Todd Tiahrt

Whether there is spec buying or not is not the greatest factor in the high cost of pharmaceuticals. — Stewart Rahr

The first person who, having enclosed a plot of land, took it into his head to say this is mine and found people simple enough to believe him was the true founder of civil society. What crimes, wars, murders, what miseries and horrors would the human race have been spared, had some one pulled up the stakes or filled in the ditch and cried out to his fellow men: Do not listen to this imposter. You are lost if you forget that the fruits of the earth belong to all and the earth to no one! — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Everything from the little house was in the wagon, except the beds and tables and chairs. They did not need to take these, because Pa could always make new ones. — Laura Ingalls Wilder

A person who learns to juggle six balls will be more skilled than the person who never tries to juggle more than three. — Marilyn Vos Savant