Hauen Quotes & Sayings

She is different from her people. And when she tries to do as they do, it cracks her heart to the core. Looking at her, I know I was wrong. She is not a distraction. She does not compromise my mission. She is the point of it all. — Pierce Brown

There's a poetry to it, engineer's poetry ... it suggests Haverie - average, you know - certainly you have two lobes, don't you, symmetrical about the rocket's intended azimuth ... hauen, too-smashing someone with a hoe or a club ... off on a voyage of his own here, smiling at no one in particular, bringing in the popular wartime expression ab-hauen, quarterstaff technique, peasant humor, phallic comedy dating back to the ancient Greeks ... Slothrop's first impulse is to get back to what that Plas is into, but something about the man, despite obvious membership in the plot, keeps him listening ... an innocence, maybe a try at being friendly in the only way he has available, sharing what engages and runs him, a love for the Word. — Thomas Pynchon

The spiritual-but-nonreligious movement is largely driven by charismatic authors and speakers who attract like-minded people to their workshops and intensives. — Gudjon Bergmann

Mature people must find their own ways to cope with their own temptations. — Amy Dickinson

There are endless new variations on how to hurt a woman physically, emotionally, financially, and socially. — Gloria Allred

The irony of life is we live to work and work to live — Abdulazeez Henry Musa

I don't like directing that much to want a career as a director for hire. I like to have as much creative control as possible. — Peter Jackson

The potatoes were starch grenades. The canned carrots were revolting because that is their nature. — David Mitchell

You think road-kill is poetry! — Jonathan Dunne

If we are incapable of finding peace in ourselves, it is pointless to search elsewhere. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Hitherto, the rights and wrongs had seemed so beautifully simple. — George Orwell

Anger clearly has its proper place at work, which is neither wholly absent nor ever present. The manager who is an emotional blank is just as hard to work for as the volcanic boss, and both can do great harm by setting an unhelpful example for what kind of emotional expression is expected and accepted. — Julian Baggini