Flippen Quotes & Sayings

Family, that slippery word, a star to every wandering bark, and everyone sailing under a different sky. — Mark Haddon

I'm crying tears over the death of something that never even had the chance to live. — Colleen Hoover

I would choose the heat above an equal degree of chill. The evidence of natural history points to a tropical origin for our species, and I believe it to be true. — Marie Brennan

Get a dog (cats are an acceptable substitute, but it's not exactly confidence building to have a box of shit in your house). — Michael I. Bennett

As budget cuts cripple civilian agencies and programs, they lose their ability to perform ad they once did, so we look to the military to pick up the slack. . . . This requires still higher military budgets, which continues the devastating cycle. — Rosa Brooks

The Writing never stops... — W.W. Cass Jr.

These are books that want to be read out loud. These are books kids share with each other, and I think that's important. — Brian P. Cleary

People ask me a question, I'll give them my opinion. I never claimed to have all the answers. — Scott Fujita

Striving is fine, as long as it's tempered by the realization that, in an entropic universe, the final outcome is out of your control. If you don't waste your energy on variables you cannot influence, you can focus much more effectively on those you can. When you are wisely ambitious, you do everything you can to succeed, but you are not attached to the outcome - so that if you fail, you will be maximally resilient, able to get up, dust yourself off, and get back in the fray. That, to use a loaded term, is enlightened self-interest. — Dan Harris

In discussions around the hiring and firing of Black faculty at universities, the charge is frequently heard that Black women are more easily hired than are Black men. — Audre Lorde

As long as my family's OK, I'll be fine. — Manti Te'o

Maybe we don't need a heavenly bribe or the fear of hell and damnation to make us behave decently. Maybe it would be healthier if people started believing in themselves instead. — Raymond Khoury