Firescope Quotes & Sayings

And so I beat him and beat him until he kissed me. And then I kept on beating him until he did it properly. — Loretta Chase

The MSS uses two main themes in recruiting foreign nationals of Chinese ancestry. First, it appeals to their perceived obligation to help the land of their heritage, thereby exploiting sentimental feelings of ethnic pride. Second, it implies that family members still in the PRC will receive unfavorable treatment unless the subjects cooperate. The latter approach is quite stressful for the subjects and a strong motivational factor in favor of compliance. — Nicholas Eftimiades

Doctors are human animals. They want to be loved, they are tribal, they instinctually favor stories over scientific evidence, they make mistakes, and even small gifts make them susceptible to being biased. — Alice Dreger

Who'd want to kill the likes of you?"
"My lord father, for one. He's put me in the van."
"I'd do the same. A small man with a big shield. You'll give the archers fits. — George R R Martin

One of the things that I'm dying to do is to sing the hook on a big rap song. No one's ever called me to do that. — Darius Rucker

It is really not how much you can get out of life that matters; it is how much you can put into it that counts. What will you contribute to life today? — Bill Phillips

She was by nature a sunny soul — Jean Webster

Banks need to continue to lend to creditworthy borrowers to earn a profit and remain strong. — Ben Bernanke

My sister will die over and over again for the rest of my life. Grief is forever. It doesn't go away; it becomes a part of you, step for step, breath for breath. I will never stop grieving Bailey because I will never stop loving her. That's just how it is. Grief and love are conjoined, you don't get one without the other. All I can do is love her, and love the world, emulate her by living with daring and spirit and joy. — Jandy Nelson

No organization works if the toilets don't work, but I don't believe that finding solutions to business problems is my job. — James G. March

How many girls do you think a seventeen-year-old boy would have to screw to earn the label "compulsively promiscuous"? Three? No, not enough. Six? Doubtful. Ten? That sounds more likely. Probably in the fifteen-to-twenty range, would be my guess
if they ever put that label on boys, which I don't recall their doing.
And for seventeen-year-old girls, how many boys? — Susanna Kaysen

Love the hair. Love when it's out of control. It's like seeing a side of you that needs to come out more often. — Becca Fitzpatrick

For example, most editions of the Old Testament, intended for a Christian readership (obtained from a Greek translation of the original Hebrew), will translate Isaiah 7:14 to state that "a virgin shall conceive . . ." The English translation of the original Hebrew, used in the corresponding passage in the Hebrew Bible, states that "a young woman shall conceive. . . . — Anonymous

We use a lot of creativity and new technology, cutting edge things to use in our church, but really what it comes down to is God changing a life. — Kerry Shook

Of all the disorders in the soul, envy is the only one no one confesses to. — Plutarch