James Mattis Knife Quotes & Sayings

Governors of both political parties face a stark choice between unpopular tax increases and drastic cuts in Medicaid, education, public safety and other essential services. — Bill Delahunt

About the only time Congress conforms to the will of the people is when it decides to adjourn. — Evan Esar

Until you try, you don't know what you can't do. — Henry James

It is odd to consider the connection between despotism and barbarity, and how the making one person more than man makes the rest less. — Joseph Addison

It is imperative that we move away from the concept of a self as an indivisible, rigid and limited reality. — Jane Roberts

Success is like water, the more thirsty you are for it is the more you will drink it, and you'll need it forever to survive. — Werley Nortreus

To the Red Drum for sets, to hear Bird, whom I saw distinctly digging Mardou several times also myself directly into my eye looking to search if really I was that great writer I thought myself to be as if he knew my thoughts and ambitions or remembered me from other night clubs and other coasts, other Chicagos - not a challenging look but the king and founder of the bop generation at least the sound of it in digging his audience digging the eyes, the secret eyes him-watching, as he just pursed his lips and let great lungs and immortal fingers work, — Jack Kerouac

Life sure went by quick when you weren't paying attention. It took forever to go from a child to a grown-up. The middle-aged years went by at a steady clip, and everything else after that just sort of whizzed by. — Karen McQuestion

White people made up the n-word, they knew about racial jokes before anybody, and in their old movies and old cartoons they made fun of everybody, especially black folks. Racial jokes were not new to them. — Paul Mooney

Pepsi has a new Doritos-flavored Mountain Dew. No, we don't have an Ebola vaccine, but we do have the Doritos-flavored Mountain Dew. — David Letterman

I realized I need a certain kind of chemistry and a certain kind of look to be into someone, and like 1 percent of the population has it. — Jen Kirkman