Gondek Group Quotes & Sayings

Punishing enemies and rewarding friends - politics Chicago style - seems to be the unifying principle that helps explain the Obamacare waivers, the NLRB action against Boeing and IRS's gift tax assault on 501(c)(4) donors. They look like examples of crony capitalism, bailout favoritism and gangster government. One thing they don't look like is the rule of law. — Michael Barone

She was too young to truly understand our loss, and she was too old to hold in my arms. Yet, I wanted nothing more than to clutch her against me as we faced the burial of her mother. — Cheryl R Cowtan

Jessie rummaged through her purse for the necessary equipment. If there were one thing, Baley had once said solemnly, that had resisted mechanical improvement since medieval times, it was a woman's purse. — Isaac Asimov

The truth that many people never understand until it is too late is that the more you try to avoid suffering, the more you suffer. — Thomas Merton

A justice-thirsty country needs nothing but justice, neither bread nor anything else, only justice! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

I think bullying of anybody, whether they're gay or straight or anything in high school is unbearable. — Chelsea Handler

Some religious practitioners make absolutist claims for their beliefs: I've no interest in doing this, nor do I have any interest in converting people, which is doubtless a relief to anyone who has feared finding me on their doorstep asking if they'd like to know more about Odin. — Liz Williams

Usually, you know, you're at a table and you're the only woman, you've got this idea, you finally speak up - I mean, I've been in some settings where every head turns toward me and then they all turn away as if I've never spoken. Which I think happens when whatever I said was so out of the blue, or so awkward, that they just didn't know how to respond. — Mitchell Baker

I always had to wait until something hit me, and I could write it. But when I would cut an album, to me it represented the time that I spent since the last one. Just the way I was looking at the world. — Kris Kristofferson

It's like getting the best Christmas gift ever, but Santa decided to kick the crap out of you before you unwrapped it. — Adrienne Martini

Driver's licenses & scholarships for illegals; not amnesty. — Bill Richardson

Hear and believe, even in the storm. When it grows dark, find your song of truth, and then even in the darkness you will know who you are. — Rachelle Dekker