Instigating A Fight Quotes & Sayings

It's not visual. He's not. You know him by his work, for one thing, and that part is visual, I suppose, isn't it? The sky, moon, stars, and trees, all those exotic colors you're apt to see in birds' feathers. When you look at a painting, you don't try to visualize the artist, do you? But you know somebody painted it or it wouldn't be there. — Vicki Covington

The biggest problem in politics is that you help some S.O.B. get what he wants and then he throws you out of the train. — Martha Griffiths

Every terrorist regime in the world uses isolation to break people's spirits. — Bell Hooks

Under current law, on January 1st, 2013, there is going to be a massive fiscal cliff of large spending cuts and tax increases. — Ben Bernanke

I do not believe making money in order to consume goods is
mankind's sole purpose on this planet. If you're wondering
what I believe our purpose on this planet is, I'll give you
a hint ... it has to do with creating and sharing. — Bill Hicks

Fear is a lack of love, just as darkness is a lack of light. — Bijan

The Northern onslaught upon slavery was no more than a piece of specious humbug designed to conceal its desire for economic control of the Southern states. — Charles Dickens

Let's play a game. I'll say a word, and you say the first word that pops into your head. Ready? ME: Seattle. YOU: Rain. What you've heard about the rain: it's all true. So you'd think it would become part of the fabric, especially among the lifers. But every time it rains, and you have to interact with someone, here's what they'll say: "Can you believe the weather?" And you want to say, "Actually, I can believe the weather. What I can't believe is that I'm actually having a conversation about the weather." But I don't say that, you see, because that would be instigating a fight, something I try my best to avoid, with mixed results. — Maria Semple

The modern form of things had begun to appeal to me, also (as material for satire) politics, and the lives of the great and little, high up in the social scale. — Laurence Housman

We collect books in the belief that we are preserving them when in fact it is the books that preserve their collector. — Walter Benjamin