Quotes & Sayings About Giants Falling

Diplomacy, n.: The patriotic art of lying for one's country. — Ambrose Bierce

Wildland firefighters do not enjoy the cultural prestige that structural firefighters do. They do not wax their fire engines and cruise down the local parade route, lights flashing; they are not the subject of countless popular books and movies; major politicians do not honor their sacrifices on the Senate floor or from the Rose Garden; they do not have bagpipe bands, fancy equipment, enduring icons, or other signifiers of honor verifying the importance of their activity. — Matthew Desmond

Love is a fan club with only two fans. — Gore Vidal

Sometimes I fantasize about the US head of state as a super-lazy, super-moral libertarian despot and think, "That would certainly make everything easier," even though I can't think of one person who'd qualify, except maybe Willie Nelson. — Chuck Klosterman

Yeah!' I said again, widening my eyes and nodding slowly but emphatically to show that she had seen into my own symmetrical soul. — Olivia Sudjic

There's only one kind of happiness, but misfortune comes in all shapes and sizes. — Haruki Murakami

There is only one way to degrade mankind permanently and that is to destroy language. — Northrop Frye

The American Dream is the largely unacknowledged screen in front of which all American writing plays itself out, — Arthur Miller

And don't forget: Elvendork! It's unisex! - James Potter — J.K. Rowling

I think if you have to make sandwiches to get a ring - you should do good things for your man, but I don't think I would do that. — Katie Pavlich

Fight only in direst need
Not for lust or petty greed
Honor those that do give birth
Respect them well for their full worth — Anne McCaffrey

Everyone else got to wear their regular outfits from the first movie. I had to wear my outfit that Jabba picked out for me. Jabba the Hutt - the fashionista. Jabba the Hutt - the Coco Chanel of intergalactic style. Trendsetter, fashion maven, leader of women's looks in his world, on his planet and the next. In wax, I would forever be outfitted by outlaw Jabba. In wax and out, I would forever be stone-faced. — Carrie Fisher

I don't believe we're hateful. I think mostly we're just asleep, but the math adds up the same. — Andrea Gibson

How was I to know idiocy was only a temporary condition, especially in your case? It never has been before! — Gail Carriger