Inscrutably Def Quotes & Sayings

If you try to to take my bananas from me, I will reclaim them from your cold dead hands. — Terry Pratchett

I thanked Nancy for what she had accomplished in her war against illegal drugs, but in my heart, I was really trying to say, "Thank you, Nancy, for everything; thank you for lighting up my life for almost forty years. — Ronald Reagan

I think there's no question that Michael Jackson was the foremost entertainer of his generation; perhaps of all time, arguably, taking the skills of a Sammy Davis, Jr., bringing together the street dance of African American urban culture, joining them to the politics of dance, of Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly on that sphere alone. — Michael Eric Dyson

Once you become complacent and once you're happy with your performance or whatever it is, I don't think you'll get better as quickly. — Blake Griffin

For if the truth of God hath more abounded through my lie unto his glory; why yet am I also judged as a sinner? — Paul The Apostle

At times to think of one's outer helplessness is good, but to think always of one's inner strength is infinitely better. — Sri Chinmoy

Life is made out of Thursday afternoons. You just keep having them one after the other and let everything else take care of itself. — Tim Tharp

At the end of a miserable day, instead of grieving my virtual nothing, I can always look at my loaded wastepaper basket and tell myself that if I failed, at least I took a few trees down with me. — David Sedaris

Sometimes I've survived anger only one minute at a time, by saying to myself again and again that the best kind of revenge is some kind of life beyond this, some kind of goodness. And I can lay no claim to goodness until I can prove that mean people have not made me mean. — Barbara Kingsolver

Run while you have the light of life lest the darkness of death overtake you. — Anonymous

The real causes of terrorism are not poverty and oppression per se, but rather the bankruptcy of materialist ideologies, like Neo-Conservatism, which promise much but deliver little. The central doctrine of Neo-Conservatism is "democratic capitalism." This is the ultimate oxymoron, because in practice the political pluralism that should underlie democracy cannot exist in a climate of economic plutocracy. — Robert Dickson Crane

Starting off from Cranchester. All later events seem to have been wiped — Agatha Christie

But when nobody punishes you, you have to do it yourself, and there's no release date on that. We're always harder on ourselves than any governing body could ever get away with being. — Catherine Ryan Hyde