Hinkelfest Quotes & Sayings

The last thing we need is to turn in on ourselves rather than face us up to what we have to do in the world. — Peter Mandelson

It is an art form to hate New York City properly. So far I have always been a featherweight debunker of New York; it takes too much energy and endurance to record the infinite number of ways the city offends me. Were I to list them all, I would fill up a book the size of the Manhattan yellow pages, and that would merely be the prologue. Every time I submit myself to the snubs and indignities of that swaggering city and set myself adrift among the prodigious crowds, a feeling of displacement, profound and enervating, takes me over, killing all the coded cells of my hard-won singularity. The city marks my soul with a most profane, indelible graffiti. There is too much of too much there. — Pat Conroy

Every Good Friday, this anchored but ever-changing anniversary of my accident, I go to the little creek that saved my life and light one more candle. I offer thanks for two facts: that I am one year older, and that I am one year closer to death. — Andrew Davidson

To keep on battling and overcome the obstacles is what makes a true fighter. — Mauricio Rua

Such squeamish youths as cannot bear to be connected with a little absurdity are not worth a regret. — Jane Austen

I'm very clumsy, so there's been a lot of times I've tripped in front of girls I'm in love with or spilled food all over myself. — Prince Royce

Well, let's assume the world is linear. If we required a certain amount of troops per 25,000 population in the Balkans, if the world is not radically different, something of the same extent is going to be needed in Iraq. — Eric Shinseki

When I was little, we moved around a lot, actually. In second grade, I think I went to three different schools. We were in Nevada and Oregon and as well as a few different places in Nebraska. I did go to high school in the same town. — Emily Kinney

In my operational days, there were three ways of thinking about things. There were things you knew. Then there were things you knew you didn't know. And then there were the things you didn't know that you didn't know." "No wonder we keep having so many international crises," she says, "if you lot are running around talking like that. — Robert Jackson Bennett

We added Medicare Part D to a system facing bankruptcy and gave no thought to means testing it. — Bob Inglis

No language on earth speaks as comprehensively as photography, always providing that we follow the chemical and optic and physical path to demonstrable truth, and understand physiognomy. — August Sander

What is proposed is nothing but the replacement of the old unintelligent, inevitable, almost unconscious fertility by an intelligently controlled, conscious fertility, and the elimination of the mere voluptuary from the evolutionary process. — George Bernard Shaw

From a personal experience and the examination of literature, I feel that we cannot take for granted that a dialogue, without information and perhaps without understanding, is possible between any individuals or groups on all levels. So the prerequisite is information. — Idries Shah

Acting is exciting. It is different every time you do it. — Adam Lamberg